Was the patient cured? : understanding semantic categories and their relationship in patient records
Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37097
| Title: | Was the patient cured? : understanding semantic categories and their relationship in patient records |
| Author: | Sibanda, Tawanda Carleton |
| Advisor: | Ozlem Uznur and Peter Szolovits. |
| Department: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| Abstract: | In this thesis, we detail an approach to extracting key information in medical discharge summaries. Starting with a narrative patient report, we first identify and remove information that compromises privacy (de-identification); next we recognize words and phrases in the text belonging to semantic categories of interest to doctors (semantic category recognition). For disease and symptoms, we determine whether the problem is present, absent, uncertain, or associated with somebody else (assertion classification). Finally, we classify the semantic relationships existing between our categories (semantic relationship classification). Our approach utilizes a series of statistical models that rely heavily on local lexical and syntactic context, and achieve competitive results compared to more complex NLP solutions. We conclude the thesis by presenting the design for the Category and Relationship Extractor (CaRE). CaRE combines our solutions to de-identification, semantic category recognition, assertion classification, and semantic relationship classification into a single application that facilitates the easy extraction of semantic information from medical text. |
| Description: |
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-107). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37097 |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Keywords: | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
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