Mining Clinical Notes for Physical Rehabilitation Exercise Information: Natural Language Processing Algorithm Development and Validation Study.
Sonish SivarajkumarFengyi GaoParker DennyBayan AldhahwaniShyam VisweswaranAllyn M BoveYanshan WangPublished in: JMIR medical informatics (2024)
The study successfully developed and evaluated multiple NLP algorithms, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each in extracting physical rehabilitation exercise information from clinical notes. The detailed ontology and the robust performance of the rule-based and gradient boosting algorithms demonstrate significant potential for enhancing precision rehabilitation. These findings contribute to the ongoing efforts to integrate advanced NLP techniques into health care, moving toward predictive models that can recommend personalized rehabilitation treatments for optimal patient outcomes.