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1. A computer method, comprising:
- processing automatically medical text in a medical report within a medical field using a computer, the processing comprising;
identifying medical phrases contained within the medical text;
extracting the medical phrases from the medical text;
determining which of the medical phrases are valued medical phrases, a valued medical phrase includes content having a corresponding value in a lexicon of relevant terminology corresponding to the medical field, the valued medical phrase being either a medical finding or a medical recommendation;
reducing each valued medical phrase to one or more medical codes in the medical field;
the one or more medical codes being medical identifiers; and
rendering in a first group medical codes corresponding to the medical finding; and
rendering in a second group separate from the first group medical codes corresponding to the medical recommendation,wherein processing automatically the medical text in the medical report further comprises generating a lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree for the medical field by assigning each valued medical phrase to a location in the lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree.
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A system and process for automated text analysis which can be used to identify phrases in reports such as medical reports includes identifying a phrase contained within a text, extracting the phrase from the text, determining a value of the phrase and, in response to the phrase having at least a threshold value, reducing the phrase to a root meaning. In one embodiment, the value of the phrase is assigned via lexicon-based hierarchical decision trees.
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1. A computer method, comprising:
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processing automatically medical text in a medical report within a medical field using a computer, the processing comprising; identifying medical phrases contained within the medical text; extracting the medical phrases from the medical text; determining which of the medical phrases are valued medical phrases, a valued medical phrase includes content having a corresponding value in a lexicon of relevant terminology corresponding to the medical field, the valued medical phrase being either a medical finding or a medical recommendation; reducing each valued medical phrase to one or more medical codes in the medical field;
the one or more medical codes being medical identifiers; andrendering in a first group medical codes corresponding to the medical finding; and rendering in a second group separate from the first group medical codes corresponding to the medical recommendation, wherein processing automatically the medical text in the medical report further comprises generating a lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree for the medical field by assigning each valued medical phrase to a location in the lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus, comprising:
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hardware circuitry configured to process automatically medical text in a medical report within a medical field, the circuitry configured to process automatically medical text comprises circuitry configured to; identify medical phrases contained within the medical text; extract the medical phrases from the medical text; determine which of the medical phrases are valued medical phrases, a valued medical phrase includes content having a corresponding value in a lexicon of relevant terminology corresponding to the medical field, the valued medical phrase being either a medical finding or a medical recommendation; reduce each valued medical phrase to one or more medical codes in the medical field;
the one or more medical codes being medical identifiers; andrender in a first group medical codes corresponding to the medical finding; and render in a second group separate from the first group medical codes corresponding to the medical recommendation, wherein the circuitry comprises a processor, and wherein the circuitry configured to process automatically the medical text in the medical report further comprises circuitry configured to generate a lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree for the medical field by assigning each valued medical phrase to a location in the lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer method, comprising:
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processing automatically medical text in a radiology report using a computer, the processing comprising; identifying medical phrases contained within the medical text; extracting the medical phrases from the medical text; determining which of the medical phrases are valued medical phrases, a valued medical phrase includes content having a corresponding value in a lexicon of relevant terminology in radiology, the valued medical phrase being either a medical finding or a medical recommendation; reducing each valued medical phrase to one or more radiology codes in radiology from at least one of Current Procedural Terminology, Fourth Revision (CPT4), International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD9), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOWMED), a lexicon of radiological terms, or Unified Medical Language System (UMLS);
the one or more medical codes being medical identifiers; andrendering in a first group medical codes corresponding to the medical finding; and rendering in a second group separate from the first group medical codes corresponding to the medical recommendation, wherein processing automatically the medical text in the radiology report further comprises generating a lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree for radiology by assigning each valued medical phrase to a location in the lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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23. An apparatus, comprising:
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hardware circuitry configured to process automatically medical text from a radiology report, the circuitry configured to process automatically medical text comprises circuitry configured to; identify medical phrases contained within the medical text; extract the medical phrases from the medical text; determine which of the medical phrases are valued medical phrases, a valued medical phrase includes content having a corresponding value in a lexicon of relevant terminology in radiology, the valued medical phrase being either a medical finding or a medical recommendation; reduce each valued medical phrase to one or more medical codes in radiology from at least one of Current Procedural Terminology, Fourth Revision (CPT4), International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD9), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOWMED), a lexicon of radiological terms, or Unified Medical Language System (UMLS);
the one or more medical codes being medical identifiers; andrender in a first group medical codes corresponding to the medical finding; and render in a second group separate from the first group medical codes corresponding to the medical recommendation, wherein the circuitry comprises a processor, wherein the circuitry configured to process automatically the medical text from the radiology report further comprises circuitry configured to generate a lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree for radiology by assigning each valued medical phrase to a location in the lexicon-based hierarchical decision tree. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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