Information extraction from electronic medical documents: state of the art and future research directions.

ABSTRACT: In the medical field, a doctor must have a comprehensive knowledge by reading and writing narrative documents, and he is responsible for every decision he takes for patients. Unfortunately, it is very tiring to read all necessary information about drugs, diseases and patients due to the large amount of documents that are increasing every day. Consequently, so many medical errors can happen and even kill people. Likewise, there is such an important field that can handle this problem, which is the information extraction. There are several important tasks in this field to extract the important and desired information from unstructured text written in natural language. The main principal tasks are named entity recognition and relation extraction since they can structure the text by extracting

SUBMITTER: Landolsi MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640816 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature