De-identifying Spanish medical texts - named entity recognition applied to radiology reports

Abstract Background Medical texts such as radiology reports or electronic health records are a powerful source of data for researchers. Anonymization methods must be developed to de-identify documents containing personal information from both patients and medical staff. Although currently there are...

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Main Authors: Irene Pérez-Díez, Raúl Pérez-Moraga, Adolfo López-Cerdán, Jose-Maria Salinas-Serrano, María de la Iglesia-Vayá
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-03-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-021-00236-2