Patient Data Mining for Lung Cancer Screening
First Claim
1. A lung cancer screening system comprising:
- a database including structured patient information for a patient population associated with lung cancer and a domain knowledge base including information about lung cancer;
an individual patient record; and
a processor for analyzing the patient record with the information about lung cancer from the domain knowledge base of the database to determine if a patient has indications of lung cancer.
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Abstract
A system and method for lung cancer screening is provided. The system includes a database including structured patient information for a patient population and a domain knowledge base including information about lung cancer; an individual patient record; and a processor for analyzing the patient record with data from the database to determine if a patient has indications of lung cancer. The method includes the steps of inputting patient-specific data into a patient record; performing at least one lung cancer screening procedure on a patient, wherein at least one result from at least one procedure is inputted into the patient record in a structured format; and analyzing the patient record with a domain knowledge base to determine if the patient has indications of lung cancer.
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1. A lung cancer screening system comprising:
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a database including structured patient information for a patient population associated with lung cancer and a domain knowledge base including information about lung cancer;
an individual patient record; and
a processor for analyzing the patient record with the information about lung cancer from the domain knowledge base of the database to determine if a patient has indications of lung cancer. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 29, 30, 31)
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2. A lung cancer screening system comprising:
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a database including structured patient information for a patient population and a domain knowledge base including information about lung cancer;
an individual patient record; and
a processor for analyzing the patient record with data from the database to determine if a patient has indications of lung cancer;
wherein the database is populated with the structured patient information by data mining structured and unstructured patient records.
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8. A lung cancer screening system comprising:
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a database including structured patient information for a patient population and a domain knowledge base including information about lung cancer;
an individual patient record; and
a processor for analyzing the patient record with data from the database to determine if a patient has indications of lung cancer;
wherein the individual patient record is created by mining structured and unstructured patient information. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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