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Automatic computation of CHA2DS2-VASc score: information extraction from clinical texts for thromboembolism risk
Cyril Grouin1, Louise Deléger, Arnaud Rosier
1LIMSI-CNRS, F-91043 Orsay, France.
Abstract:
The CHA2DS2-VASc score is a 10-point scale which allows cardiologists to easily identify potential stroke risk for patients with non-valvular fibrillation. In this article, we present a system based on natural language processing (lexicon and linguistic modules), including negation and speculation handling, which extracts medical concepts from French clinical records and uses them as criteria to compute the CHA2DS2-VASc score. We evaluate this system by comparing its computed criteria with those obtained by human reading of the same clinical texts, and by assessing the impact of the observed differences on the resulting CHA2DS2-VASc scores. Given 21 patient records, 168 instances of criteria were computed, with an accuracy of 97.6%, and the accuracy of the 21 CHA2DS2-VASc scores was 85.7%. All differences in scores trigger the same alert, which means that system performance on this test set yields similar results to human reading of the texts.
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