Unlocking echocardiogram measurements for heart disease research through natural language processing.

Olga V PattersonMatthew S FreibergMelissa SkandersonSamah J FodehCynthia A BrandtScott L DuVall

Published in: BMC cardiovascular disorders (2017)

This system illustrates the feasibility and effectiveness of a large-scale information extraction on clinical data. New clinical questions can be addressed in the domain of heart failure using retrospective clinical data analysis because key heart function measurements can be successfully extracted using natural language processing.

Keyphrases

heart failure
data analysis
randomized controlled trial
autism spectrum disorder
systematic review
pulmonary hypertension
left ventricular
electronic health record
social media
artificial intelligence