Understanding Urgency in Radiology Reporting: Identifying Associations Between Clinical Findings in Radiology Reports and Their Prompt Communication to Referring Physicians
| Title | Understanding Urgency in Radiology Reporting: Identifying Associations Between Clinical Findings in Radiology Reports and Their Prompt Communication to Referring Physicians |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| 2019 | |
| Authors | Meng, X., Heinz M. V., Ganoe C. H., Sieberg R. T., Cheung Y. Y., & Hassanpour S. |
| Conference Name | MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All |
| Pagination | 1546 - 1547 |
| Date Published | 08/2019 |
| Conference Location | Lyon, France |
| 1879-8365 | |
| communication, Comprehension, Natural language processing, Radiography, radiology, Radiology Information Systems | |
In this study, we aim to develop an automatic pipeline to identify clinical findings in the unstructured text of radiology reports that necessitate communications between radiologists and referring physicians. Our approach identified 20 distinct clinical concepts and highlighted statistically significant concepts with strong associations to cases that require prompt communication. | |
| 10.3233/SHTI190527 |