
Clinical Text Mining
Secondary Use of Electronic Patient Records
Authors: Dalianis, Hercules
- Provides a comprehensive overview of technical and ethical issues arising in clinical text mining
- Presents both the general background and structure of patient records, as well as various natural language processing and machine learning methodologies
- Written for graduate students in health informatics, computational linguistics, and information retrieval
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- About this book
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This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records.
- About the authors
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Hercules Dalianis, Master of Science in engineering (civilingenjör) with speciality in electrical engineering, graduated in 1984 at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, and received his PhD/Teknologie doktor in 1996 also at KTH. Since 2011 he is professor in Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden. Since 1988 he has carried out research in natural language processing and information retrieval, and during the last ten years he has applied these methods on text from electronic patient records, resulting in the research area clinical text mining.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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The History of the Patient Record and the Paper Record
Pages 5-12
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User Needs: Clinicians, Clinical Researchers and Hospital Management
Pages 13-19
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Characteristics of Patient Records and Clinical Corpora
Pages 21-34
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Medical Classifications and Terminologies
Pages 35-43
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Clinical Text Mining
- Book Subtitle
- Secondary Use of Electronic Patient Records
- Authors
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- Hercules Dalianis
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-78503-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-78503-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-78502-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-08715-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 181
- Number of Illustrations
- 26 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
- Topics