Automatic creation of clinical study reports
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1. A method of automatically generating a clinical study report from a plurality of data files, the method comprising:
- receiving clinical study data including a plurality of data files at a server;
identifying to said server, a clinical study report, said clinical study report comprising a plurality of elements, each of said elements having an associated phrase and format; and
a processor of said server;
converting each of said plurality of data files to a common analysis format;
locating a plurality of sections within each of said plurality of data files from heading levels within said plurality of data files;
storing relationship information from said heading levels for said plurality of sections;
for each of said elements in said clinical study report;
indexing for each of said plurality of sections, occurrences of said phrase associated with said element within that section;
identifying any section with a positive index as a possible section for the clinical study report;
ranking the identified possible sections based on said indexing to provide a probability for each identified possible section to correspond to said element in said clinical study report; and
comparing each probability of each identified possible section to determine a best fit section from among the identified possible sections for said element; and
generating the formatted clinical study report by reproducing said best fit section for each said element as said element in said clinical study report in said format associated with said element.
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Abstract
An apparatus (102, 104) and method for generating a formatted clinical study report (206) by analyzing submitted clinical study data (150) based on semantics and maximum entropy analysis at a server (104). Sections of the formatted clinical study report are identified in the submitted data (111) using semantics analysis and maximum entropy analysis (204). The identified sections are formatted and output as the formatted clinical study report (206). The formatted clinical study report (206) may be reviewed and edited after generation by a user interfacing with the server (104).
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1. A method of automatically generating a clinical study report from a plurality of data files, the method comprising:
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receiving clinical study data including a plurality of data files at a server; identifying to said server, a clinical study report, said clinical study report comprising a plurality of elements, each of said elements having an associated phrase and format; and a processor of said server; converting each of said plurality of data files to a common analysis format; locating a plurality of sections within each of said plurality of data files from heading levels within said plurality of data files; storing relationship information from said heading levels for said plurality of sections; for each of said elements in said clinical study report; indexing for each of said plurality of sections, occurrences of said phrase associated with said element within that section; identifying any section with a positive index as a possible section for the clinical study report; ranking the identified possible sections based on said indexing to provide a probability for each identified possible section to correspond to said element in said clinical study report; and comparing each probability of each identified possible section to determine a best fit section from among the identified possible sections for said element; and generating the formatted clinical study report by reproducing said best fit section for each said element as said element in said clinical study report in said format associated with said element. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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