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  • Computational linguistics
  • Medical informatics
  • Clinical trial methodology

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  • Clinical trials require homogenous participants for reliable intervention data.
  • Eligibility criteria are complex and difficult to query directly from databases.
  • Manual medical record screening is time-consuming, delaying participant recruitment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the efficacy of natural language processing (NLP) in identifying patients meeting clinical trial eligibility criteria from narrative medical records.
  • To describe a novel system developed for automated cohort selection in clinical trials.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a system with 13 classifiers, each targeting a specific eligibility criterion.
  • Utilized a bag-of-words model with pattern-matching for context-sensitive feature extraction.
  • Employed supervised machine learning and a rule-based approach for criteria classification.

Main Results:

  • Gradient Tree Boosting (GTB) showed the most consistent performance among evaluated machine learning algorithms.
  • The system achieved a high F-measure (89.04%) on unseen test data, comparable to top-ranked shared task systems.
  • Significantly outperformed other systems in identifying patients with advanced coronary artery disease (88.14% F-measure).

Conclusions:

  • The developed system accurately identifies eligible patients for clinical trials using NLP.
  • Rule-based knowledge infusion enhances machine learning performance, even with limited data.
  • Automated cohort selection can improve the speed and accuracy of clinical trial recruitment.