title: Facilitating research in pathology using natural language processing.
abstract: Clinical research projects frequently rely on manual extraction of information from pathology reports, which is a costly and time-consuming process. This paper describes use of a natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically extract and structure information in textual pathology reports that is needed for clinical research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, USA.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008499:Medical Records / Q000145:classification; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010336:Pathology