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  • Oncology
  • Medical Informatics

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  • Natural language processing (NLP) is a key technology for converting human language into machine-readable data.
  • Its application in cancer care is rapidly expanding, offering new avenues for personalized medicine.
  • Unstructured clinical data holds vast potential for research and improved patient outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the evolution and applications of NLP in radiation oncology.
  • To explore NLP's role in personalizing cancer treatment pathways.
  • To identify challenges and future directions for NLP in oncology.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of NLP advancements and applications in cancer care.
  • Analysis of NLP's capability to process unstructured clinical text.
  • Discussion of specific use cases in radiation oncology.

Main Results:

  • NLP facilitates the transformation of unstructured medical data into structured formats for big data analysis.
  • Key applications include symptom monitoring, identifying social determinants of health, enhancing patient-physician communication, patient education, and predictive modeling.
  • Advancements in NLP tools automate information extraction from clinical text, impacting research and practice.

Conclusions:

  • NLP holds significant potential to revolutionize radiation oncology research and clinical practice.
  • Addressing challenges like privacy, bias, and interpretability is crucial for widespread adoption.
  • Collaboration between computer scientists and oncologists is essential for advancing NLP in cancer care.