Automatic diagnosis classification of patient discharge letters.
CAIRN (Computer Assisted Medical Information Resource Navigation) is a prototyping System that allows flexible medical data storage and retrieval supporting medical informatics research. In this paper methods that automate the selection of ICD-9 diagnosis (International Classification of Diseases and Diagnoses, 9th Revision) are investigated. We present the Text Data Mining module extension of CAIRN and its application in order to organize in a systematic way uncontrolled terms, to propose relationships between uncontrolled terms and finally aid the diagnosis classification.
Karanikolas
Nikitas N
NN
System Head, Areteion University Hospital, University of Athens, 76 Vas. Sofias, 115 28, Greece. nnk@aretaieio.uoa.gr
Skourlas
Christos
C
D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification*; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010351:Patient Discharge