How Natural Language Processing Can Aid With Pulmonary Oncology Tumor Node Metastasis Staging From Free-Text Radiology Reports: Algorithm Development and Validation.
Sander PutsJ Martijn NobelCatharina M L ZegersInigo BermejoSimon RobbenAndre DekkerPublished in: JMIR formative research (2023)
This study shows that NLP has potential in classifying pulmonary oncology from free-text radiological reports according to the TNM classification system as both the T- and N-stages can be extracted with high accuracy.