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A Novel System for Extractive Clinical Note Summarization using

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Liang, Jennifer, Tsou, Ching-Huei, Poddar, Ananya·2019·Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop

Abstract

While much data within a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) is coded, crucial information concerning the patient’s care and management remain buried in unstructured clinical notes, making it difficult and time-consuming for physicians to review during their usual clinical workflow. In this paper, we present our clinical note processing pipeline, which extends beyond basic medical natural language processing (NLP) with concept recognition and relation detection to also include components specific to EHR data, such as structured data associated with the encounter, sentence-level clinical aspects, and structures of the clinical notes. We report on the use of this pipeline in a disease-specific extractive text summarization task on clinical notes, focusing primarily on progress notes by physicians and nurse practitioners. We show how the addition of EHR-specific components to the pipeline resulted in an improvement in our overall system performance and discuss the potential impact of EHR-specific components on other higher-level clinical NLP tasks.

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Authors
Liang, J., Tsou, C.-H., & Poddar, A.
Venue
Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
Published
2019
Pages
46-54
OpenAlex
W2963235246
Cited by
44
References
19
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1
FWCI
15.99
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Licence
cc-by
Locations
Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop (ClinicalNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Keywords
clinical note summarization, extractive summarization, electronic health records, unstructured clinical notes, progress notes, concept identification, relation detection

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