Open Access book by Hercules Dalianis. Clinical Text Mining: Secondary Use of Electronic Patient Records
This open access book from Springer describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The History of the Patient Record and the Paper Record
User Needs: Clinicians, Clinical Researchers and Hospital Management
Characteristics of Patient Records and Clinical Corpora
Medical Classifications and Terminologies
Evaluation Metrics and Evaluation
Basic Building Blocks for Clinical Text Processing
Computational Methods for Text Analysis and Text Classification
Ethics and Privacy of Patient Records for Clinical Text Mining Research
Applications of Clinical Text Mining
Networks and Shared Tasks in Clinical Text Mining
Conclusions and Outlook