Automated data extraction tool (DET) for external applications in radiotherapy.

ABSTRACT: Oncological Information Systems (OIS) manage information in radiotherapy (RT) departments. Due to database structure limitations, stored information can rarely be directly used except for vendor-specific purposes. Our aim is to enable the use of such data in various external applications by creating a tool for automatic data extraction, cleaning and formatting.

Methods and materials

We used OIS data from a nine-linac RT department in Sweden (70 weeks, 2015-16). Extracted data included patients' referrals and appointments with details for RT sub-tasks. The data extraction tool to prepare the data for external use was built in C# programming language. It used excel-automation queries to remove unassigned/duplicated values, substitute missing data and perform application-specific calcu

SUBMITTER: Gurjar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9842687 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature