Towards Phenotyping of Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria.
NLP4CR - Natural Language Processing for Clinical Research

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BACKGROUND: Medical plaintext documents contain important facts about patients, but they are rarely available for structured queries. The provision of structured information from natural language texts … in addition to the existing structured data can significantly speed up the search for fulfilled inclusion criteria and thus improve the recruitment rate. OBJECTIVES: This work is aimed at supporting clinical trial recruitment with text mining techniques to identify suitable subjects in hospitals. METHOD: Based on the inclusion/exclusion criteria of 5 sample studies and a text corpus consisting of 212 doctor's letters and medical follow-up documentation from a university cancer center, a prototype was developed and technically evaluated using NLP procedures (UIMA) for the extraction of facts from medical free texts. RESULTS: It was found that although the extracted entities are not always correct (precision between 23% and 96%), they provide a decisive indication as to which patient file should be read preferentially. CONCLUSION: The prototype presented here demonstrates the technical feasibility. In order to find available, lucrative phenotypes, an in-depth evaluation is required.

Authors: M. Lobe, S. Staubert, C. Goldberg, I. Haffner, A. Winter

Date Published: 5th May 2018

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: breast cancer

NLP for Clinical Research Tool
NLP4CR - Natural Language Processing for Clinical Research

Motivation: By using the NLP4CR tool, medical facts (e.g. diagnoses, laboratory values) can be extracted from German medical full texts.

Description: The NLP4CR tool is a prototype that demonstrates the applicability of Apache UIMA and cTakes to medical full texts in German language.

Creators: Sebastian Stäubert, Matthias Löbe, Colleen Goldberg

Submitter: Christoph Beger

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