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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Radiology

Background:

  • Automated detection of clinical conditions from narrative reports is crucial for clinical decision support and research.
  • Human interpretation of medical reports can exhibit inter-reader variability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the performance of automated methods, specifically a natural language processor, in detecting clinical conditions from narrative chest radiograph reports.
  • To compare the accuracy of automated detection against human experts (internists, radiologists) and lay persons.

Main Methods:

  • Six clinical conditions were assessed in 200 admission chest radiograph reports.
  • A general-purpose natural language processor, human experts (internists, radiologists, lay persons), and three other computer methods were used for detection.
  • Intersubject disagreement was quantified using "distance" and by calculating sensitivity and specificity relative to physician consensus.

Main Results:

  • Physicians agreed on an average of 80% of reports, with an average intersubject distance of 0.24.
  • The natural language processor achieved a distance of 0.26 from physicians, not significantly different from physician-to-physician disagreement.
  • The natural language processor demonstrated high sensitivity (81%) and specificity (98%), comparable to physicians (85% sensitivity, 98% specificity).

Conclusions:

  • Physician disagreement in interpreting narrative reports was observed but not attributable to outlier physicians.
  • The natural language processor performed comparably to physicians and outperformed other automated methods and lay persons.
  • Natural language processing holds significant potential for extracting clinical information from narrative reports to support automated decision-making and research.