Automatic creation of a finding centric longitudinal view of patient findings

Abstract

A system for creating a longitudinal view of patient findings includes a natural language processing engine which extracts clinical findings from a clinical document. A temporal resolution engine determines which other clinical documents the clinical findings belong to. A visualization graphical user interface indicates the correlation of the clinical findings between the clinical document and the other clinical documents. The natural language processing engine also links one or more images to the clinical findings.

Description

technical field [0001] The present application generally relates to the automatic creation of findings-centric longitudinal views of patient findings. This application finds particular use in connection with extracting measurements and image references from declarative radiology reports and recording measurements and image references on other radiology reports and will be described with particular reference thereto. However, it should be understood that the present application is also applicable to other usage scenarios and is not necessarily limited to the above-mentioned applications. Background technique [0002] On a routine basis, radiologists handle a growing body of research to best diagnose and treat patients. Patients, especially those with cancer, undergo imaging examinations frequently, and accumulate many studies over time, and thus report in their medical records. Whenever a new study needs to be read, the radiologist typically opens one or more previous repor...

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Problems solved by technology

This creates the challenge of communicating over time the information contained in measurements, images, and qualitative descriptions in as rich a way as possible, yet concisely

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