System and method for patient identification for clinical trials using content-based retrieval and learning
First Claim
1. A method for identifying a patient for a clinical study, said method comprising the steps of:
- creating a database of patients and patient information;
providing a criteria for selecting one or more patients from the database;
performing a content based similarity search of the database to retrieve the one or more patients who meet the selection criteria; and
presenting said selected one or more patients to a user.
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Abstract
A method for selecting a subject for a clinical study includes providing a criteria for selecting one or more subjects from a database, performing a content based similarity search of the database to retrieve subjects who meet the selection criteria, presenting the selected subjects to a user, and receiving user feedback regarding the selected subjects. The feedback can concern whether each of the selected subjects presented to the user is suitable for the clinical study. The method also includes learning from the feedback to improve the content based similarity search, performing an improved content based similarity search of the database to retrieve additional subjects who meet the selection criteria, and presenting the additional subjects to the user.
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26 Claims
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1. A method for identifying a patient for a clinical study, said method comprising the steps of:
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creating a database of patients and patient information;
providing a criteria for selecting one or more patients from the database;
performing a content based similarity search of the database to retrieve the one or more patients who meet the selection criteria; and
presenting said selected one or more patients to a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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13. A method for selecting a subject for a clinical study, said method comprising the steps of:
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providing a criteria for selecting one or more subjects for said clinical study;
performing a content based similarity search of a database to retrieve the one or more subjects who meet the selection criteria;
receiving user feedback regarding the one or more selected subjects, wherein the feedback concerns whether each of the one or more selected subjects presented to the user is suitable for the clinical study;
learning from said feedback to improve the content based similarity search;
performing an improved content based similarity search of the database to retrieve one or more additional subjects who meet the selection criteria; and
presenting said selected additional subjects to the user. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform the method steps for identifying a patient for a clinical study, said method comprising the steps of:
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creating a database of patients and patient information;
providing a criteria for selecting one or more patients from the database;
performing a content based similarity search of the database to retrieve the one or more patients who meet the selection criteria; and
presenting said selected one or more patients to a user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 25, 26)
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