Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes on Chronic Diseases: Systematic Review

• Published in: JMIR medical informatics Vol. 7; no. 2; p. e12239
• Main Authors: Sheikhalishahi, Seyedmostafa, Miotto, Riccardo, Dudley, Joel T, Lavelli, Alberto, Rinaldi, Fabio, Osmani, Venet
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 27.04.2019
• Subjects: Algorithms; Breast cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Chronic illnesses; Circulatory system; Coronary vessels; Diabetes; Digital libraries; Electronic health records; Heart; Hypertension; Keywords; Language; Machine learning; Medical records; Metabolic disorders; Multimedia; Natural language processing; Prostate cancer; Review; Systematic review; Trends; Tumors; clinical notes; deep learning; natural language processing; chronic diseases; heart disease; cancer; lung disease; electronic health records; machine learning; diabetes; stroke

Novel approaches that complement and go beyond evidence-based medicine are required in the domain of chronic diseases, given the growing incidence of such conditions on the worldwide population. A promising avenue is the secondary use of electronic health records (EHRs), where patient data are analy...