Incidence and Prevalence of Bone Metastases in Different Solid Tumors Determined by Natural Language Processing of CT Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Improved survival due to advances in medical therapy has resulted in increasing numbers of cancer patients living with bone metastases; however, our understanding of the prognostic implications of bone metastases requires larger population-based studies outlining their incidence and prevalence in different primary cancer types, including those with lower incidence. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence and prevalence of bone metastases in solid organ tumors by analyzing reports of staging CT studies with natural language processing (NLP).

Methods

In this retrospective study, 639,470 reports representing 129,326 unique patients were analyzed; 6279 randomly selected reports were manually annotated and labeled for the presence or absence of bone metas

SUBMITTER: Long N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11763382 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature