Rule-Based Information Extraction from Free-Text Pathology Reports Reveals Trends in South African Female Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes and Ki67 Expression.

Clinical information on molecular subtypes and the Ki67 index is critical for breast cancer (BC) prognosis and personalised treatment plan. Extracting such information into structured data is essential for research, auditing, and cancer incidence reporting and underpins the potential for automated d...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International pp. 1 - 18
Autores principales: Achilonu, Okechinyere J., Singh, Elvira, Nimako, Gideon, Eijkemans, René M. J. C., Musenge, Eustasius
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 3/12/2022
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          Achilonu, Okechinyere J.
          Singh, Elvira
          Nimako, Gideon
          Eijkemans, René M. J. C.
          Musenge, Eustasius
        affil: Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa
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          Information Retrieval
          Pathology, Molecular Trends
          Breast Neoplasms Trends
          Natural Language Processing
          Breast Neoplasms Pathology
          Algorithms
          Tumor Markers, Biological Metabolism
          South Africa
          Age Factors
          Race Factors
          Neoplasm Grading
          Epidermal Growth Factors
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      ab: Clinical information on molecular subtypes and the Ki67 index is critical for breast cancer (BC) prognosis and personalised treatment plan. Extracting such information into structured data is essential for research, auditing, and cancer incidence reporting and underpins the potential for automated decision support. Herewith, we developed a rule-based natural language processing algorithm that retrieved and extracted important BC parameters from free-text pathology reports towards exploring molecular subtypes and Ki67-proliferation trends. We considered malignant BC pathology reports with different free-text narrative attributes from the South African National Health Laboratory Service. The reports were preprocessed and parsed through the algorithm. Parameters extracted by the algorithm were validated against manually extracted parameters. For all parameters extracted, we obtained accurate annotations of 83-100%, 93-100%, 91-100%, and 92-100% precision, recall, F 1 -score, and kappa, respectively. There was a significant trend in the proportion of each molecular subtype by patient age, histologic type, grade, Ki67, and race. The findings also showed significant association in the Ki67 trend with hormone receptors, human epidermal growth factors, age, grade, and race. Our approach bridges the gap between data availability and actionable knowledge and provides a framework that could be adapted and reused in other cancers and beyond cancer studies. Information extracted from these reports showed interesting trends that may be exploited for BC screening and treatment resources in South Africa. Finally, this study strongly encourages the implementation of a synoptic style pathology report in South Africa.
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