Liliana Ferreira Ant Nio Teixeira Jo O. Paulo Silv
The electronic storage of medical patient data is becoming a daily experience in most of the practices and hospitals worldwide. However, much of the available data is in free text form, a convenient way of expressing concepts and events but especially challenging if one wants to perform automatic searches, summarization or statistical analyses. Information Extraction can relieve some of these problems by offering a semantically informed interpretation and abstraction of the texts. MedInX, the Medical Information eXtraction system presented in this book is designed to process textual...
The electronic storage of medical patient data is becoming a daily experience in most of the practices and hospitals worldwide. However, much of the a...