title: An interactive report generator for bone scan studies.
abstract: An interactive report generator for bone scintigraphy will be demonstrated. It comprises a controlled reporting vocabulary, an adaptive user interface, and a text generator. The controlled vocabulary represents the relevant concepts for bone scan reports: anatomical sites, scintigraphical phenomena, and diagnoses, and various attributes for these concept domains. Within the vocabulary selectional constraints are defined that restricts to meaningful combination of concepts. The interface provides intelligent views on the vocabulary, and presents only those terms that are relevant in a certain context. Through the interface the user may choose appropriate terms and combine them to complex findings. A German text generator for a restricted finding language transforms the entered data into morpho-syntactic surface structures and produces acceptable reports.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Hildesheim, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bernauer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gumrich
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kutz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lindner
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Pretschner
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014956:Writing