Enriching the international clinical nomenclature with Chinese daily used synonyms and concept recognition in physician notes

Abstract Background It has been shown that the entities in everyday clinical text are often expressed in a way that varies from how they are expressed in the nomenclature. Owing to lots of synonyms, abbreviations, medical jargons or even misspellings in the daily used physician notes in clinical inf...

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Main Authors: Rui Zhang, Jialin Liu, Yong Huang, Miye Wang, Qingke Shi, Jun Chen, Zhi Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-017-0455-z