The objectives of this study were to structure
otorhinolaryngology discharge summaries with text mining methods and analyze
structured data and extract relational rules using Association Rule Mining
(ARM). In this study, we used otorhinolaryngology discharge notes. We first
developed a dictionary-based information extraction (IE) module in order to
annotate medical entities. Later we extracted the annotated entities, and
transformed all documents into a data table. We applied ARM Apriori algorithm
to the final dataset, and identified interesting patterns and relationships
between the entities as association rules for predicting the treatment
procedure for patients. The IE module’s precision, recall, and f-measure were
95.1%, 84.5%, and 89.2%, respectively. A
total of fifteen association rules were found by selecting the top ranking
rules obtained from the ARM analysis. These fifteen rules were reviewed by a
domain expert, and the validity of these rules was examined in the PubMed
literature. The results showed that the association rules are mostly endorsed
by the literature. Although our system focuses on the domain of
otorhinolaryngology, we believe the same methodology can be applied to other
medical domains and extracted rules can be used for clinical decision support
systems and in patient care.
Association Rule Mining Information Extraction Otorhinolaryngology Rule Extraction Text Mining
The objectives of this study were to structure
otorhinolaryngology discharge summaries with text mining methods and analyze
structured data and extract relational rules using Association Rule Mining
(ARM). In this study, we used otorhinolaryngology discharge notes. We first
developed a dictionary-based information extraction (IE) module in order to
annotate medical entities. Later we extracted the annotated entities, and
transformed all documents into a data table. We applied ARM Apriori algorithm
to the final dataset, and identified interesting patterns and relationships
between the entities as association rules for predicting the treatment
procedure for patients. The IE module’s precision, recall, and f-measure were
95.1%, 84.5%, and 89.2%, respectively. A
total of fifteen association rules were found by selecting the top ranking
rules obtained from the ARM analysis. These fifteen rules were reviewed by a
domain expert, and the validity of these rules was examined in the PubMed
literature. The results showed that the association rules are mostly endorsed
by the literature. Although our system focuses on the domain of
otorhinolaryngology, we believe the same methodology can be applied to other
medical domains and extracted rules can be used for clinical decision support
systems and in patient care.
Birliktelik Kuralları Bilgi Çıkarımı Kulak Burun Boğaz Kural Çıkarımı Metin Madenciliği
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | Mühendislik |
Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 31 Ocak 2018 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 7 Haziran 2017 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2018 |