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This project develops a clinical natural language processing (NLP) pipeline for Estonian, a low-resource language. It converts unstructured clinical text into structured data, improving healthcare efficiency and information retrieval.

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Area of Science:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Health Informatics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Healthcare generates vast unstructured text data.
  • Mature clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) is limited for low-resource languages.
  • Estonian is a morphologically rich, low-resource language requiring specialized NLP solutions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an end-to-end pipeline for processing Estonian clinical free text.
  • To convert unstructured clinical narratives into interoperable, structured data.
  • To enhance clinical data quality, consistency, and retrieval for improved decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Design-science methodology guided the development process.
  • Implemented multilingual speech-to-text for clinical dictation.
  • Utilized clinical NLP for entity extraction and context handling.
  • Integrated terminology binding with the Estonian SNOMED CT extension.
  • Exported structured data as HL7 FHIR resources with EHR field mappings.

Main Results:

  • An end-to-end pipeline was successfully developed for Estonian clinical text.
  • The pipeline facilitates conversion of free text into structured, interoperable data.
  • Demonstrated potential for reduced documentation time and improved data consistency.

Conclusions:

  • The developed pipeline addresses the need for clinical NLP in low-resource languages like Estonian.
  • This system can significantly improve healthcare data management and clinical decision support.
  • Pilot evaluations are planned to assess the system's accuracy, usability, and workflow impact.