title: Hyperad: augmenting and visualizing free text radiology reports.
abstract: Hyperad is an automated computer system designed to extract key concepts from thoracic radiology reports and give physicians access to a large database containing the reports and key concepts. The concepts are extracted from textual documents with natural language processing techniques, then stored with the original documents in the database, which can be queried in terms of findings or associated attributes from an intuitive and easily accessible interface. The extracted concepts are represented both textually in a coded hypertext format and graphically on a coronal cross-sectional anatomy atlas, an idealized graphical model of human anatomy. To facilitate implementation, the communication protocols and standards of the World Wide Web (Web) were adopted. The reports and associated forms are encoded in standard hypertext markup language, which makes it possible to use hypermedia links to navigate the Hyperad database with any graphical Web browser. In the future, Hyperad may prove useful for other applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles 90095-1596, USA.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Taira
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Goldin
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Aberle
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D008499:Medical Records; D011871:Radiology; D014584:User-Computer Interface