Coding free text radiology reports using the Cancer Text Information Extraction System (caTIES)

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:889.

Abstract

We coded 700 radiology reports from 373 women using an unmodified deployment of the Cancer Text Information Extraction System (caTIES), a publicly-available tool using natural language processing techniques. We were moderately successfully using caTIES for case ascertainment, successfully identifying 9/11 of a random sample of cancer case (sensitivity 82%) and 5/100 controls (specificity 95%) We are currently developing a classification scheme to assess clinical risk of ovarian cancer and identifying required extensions to caTIES algorithms.

MeSH terms

  • Abstracting and Indexing / methods
  • Algorithms
  • Female
  • Forms and Records Control / methods*
  • Humans
  • Natural Language Processing*
  • Neoplasms / classification*
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Radiography
  • Radiology Information Systems*
  • Vocabulary, Controlled