Natural Language Processing to Identify Cancer Treatments With Electronic Medical Records.

Jiaming Zeng Imon Banerjee A Solomon HenryDouglas J WoodRoss D Shachter Michael F Gensheimer Douglas J Wood

Published in: JCO clinical cancer informatics (2021)

Our results show that treatment identification using free-text clinical notes greatly improves upon the performance using billing codes and simple structured data. The approach can be used for treatment cohort identification and adapted for longitudinal cancer treatment identification.

Keyphrases

bioinformatics analysis
electronic health record
combination therapy
smoking cessation