Implementation of a system for intelligent summarization of longitudinal clinical records

Ayelet Goldstein, Yuval Shahar

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Abstract

Physicians are required to interpret, abstract and present in free-text large amounts of clinical data in their daily tasks. This is especially true for chronic-disease domains, but also in other clinical domains. In our previous work, we have suggested a general framework for performing this task, given a time-oriented clinical database, and appropriate formal abstraction and summarization knowledge. We have recently developed a prototype system, CliniText, which demonstrates our ideas. Our prototype combines knowledge-based temporal data abstraction, textual summarization, abduction, and natural-language generation techniques, to generate an intelligent textual summary of longitudinal clinical data. We demonstrate both our methodology, and the feasibility of providing a free-text summary of longitudinal electronic patient records, by generating a discharge summary of a patient from the MIMIC database, who had undergone a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft operation.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationProcess Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care - AIME 2013 Joint Workshop, KR4HC 2013/ProHealth 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Pages68-82
Number of pages15
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2013
EventAIME 2013 Joint Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Healthcare and Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare, KR4HC 2013/ProHealth 2013 - Murcia, Spain
Duration: 1 Jun 20131 Jun 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8268 LNAI

Conference

ConferenceAIME 2013 Joint Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Healthcare and Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare, KR4HC 2013/ProHealth 2013
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMurcia
Period1/06/131/06/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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