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  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Clinical documentation often lacks structured data for signs and symptoms.
  • Electronic medical records contain valuable, yet unstructured, textual information.
  • Accurate symptom cataloging is crucial for patient care and research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline for identifying and categorizing symptoms from clinical text.
  • To leverage unstructured data in electronic medical records for comprehensive symptom documentation.

Main Methods:

  • A Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline was developed using a human-annotated corpus of VA electronic medical notes.
  • An automatic machine learning model selection tool was employed to create the NLP model.
  • The pipeline was trained and tested on a hold-out set of clinical records.

Main Results:

  • The NLP pipeline achieved a mention-level precision of 0.80 and recall of 0.74.
  • An overall F-score of 0.80 was obtained, indicating robust performance in symptom identification.
  • The validated tool was successfully scaled to process 964,105 patient records.

Conclusions:

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers an effective approach to extract symptoms from unstructured clinical text.
  • This technique can significantly improve the cataloging of signs and symptoms, enhancing medical data utilization.
  • The developed NLP tool demonstrates scalability and potential for large-scale clinical data analysis.