Natural language processing for populating lung cancer clinical research data

Abstract Background Lung cancer is the second most common cancer for men and women; the wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) offers a potential to accelerate cohort-related epidemiological studies using informatics approaches. Since manual extraction from large volumes of text materials...

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Main Authors: Liwei Wang, Lei Luo, Yanshan Wang, Jason Wampfler, Ping Yang, Hongfang Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0931-8