Medical Information Extraction (IE) Task
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A Medical Information Extraction (IE) Task is a domain-specific IE task for medical information in health-related unstructured data.
- Example(s):
- Extracting diagnosis information from a clinical notes corpus.
- Identifying medication names and dosages from electronic health records.
- Extracting patient symptoms and medical history from medical literature.
- Extracting clinical trial assessment schedules from clinical trial protocol documents.
- Biomedical IE.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Medical Informatics, Clinical Notes.
References
2023
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- A Medical Information Extraction Task is a domain-specific task that involves extracting and processing medical information from health-related unstructured data. This task is essential in the field of Natural Language Processing in healthcare and aims to convert unstructured text data into structured formats for analysis and decision-making. Examples of Medical Information Extraction Tasks include extracting diagnosis information from clinical notes, identifying medication names and dosages from electronic health records, and extracting patient symptoms and medical history from medical literature.
2020
- (Hahn & Oleynik, 2020) ⇒ Udo Hahn, and Michel Oleynik. (2020). “Medical Information Extraction in the Age of Deep Learning.” In: Yearbook of medical informatics, 29(01).
- QUOTE: ... We survey recent developments in medical Information Extraction (IE) as reported in the literature from the past three years. ...