Neural natural language processing for unstructured data in electronic health records: a review

DOI10.1016/J.COSREV.2022.100511arXiv2107.02975OpenAlexW3181361218MaRDI QIDQ6158768FDOQ6158768

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Publication date: 20 June 2023

Published in: Computer Science Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Electronic health records (EHRs), digital collections of patient healthcare events and observations, are ubiquitous in medicine and critical to healthcare delivery, operations, and research. Despite this central role, EHRs are notoriously difficult to process automatically. Well over half of the information stored within EHRs is in the form of unstructured text (e.g. provider notes, operation reports) and remains largely untapped for secondary use. Recently, however, newer neural network and deep learning approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP) have made considerable advances, outperforming traditional statistical and rule-based systems on a variety of tasks. In this survey paper, we summarize current neural NLP methods for EHR applications. We focus on a broad scope of tasks, namely, classification and prediction, word embeddings, extraction, generation, and other topics such as question answering, phenotyping, knowledge graphs, medical dialogue, multilinguality, interpretability, etc.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02975

zbMATH Keywords

deep learningnatural language processingelectronic health records

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to computer science (68-02) Computer science (68-XX)

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