Redundancy-aware topic modeling for patient record notes.

The clinical notes in a given patient record contain much redundancy, in large part due to clinicians' documentation habit of copying from previous notes in the record and pasting into a new note. Previous work has shown that this redundancy has a negative impact on the quality of text mining a...

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Main Authors: Raphael Cohen, Iddo Aviram, Michael Elhadad, Noémie Elhadad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3923754?pdf=render