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ArticleApplied clinical informatics2015

Interactive Cohort Identification of Sleep Disorder Patients Using Natural Language Processing and i2b2.

W Chen, R Kowatch, S Lin, M Splaingard, Y Huang

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Article in Applied clinical informatics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

W ChenResearch Information Solutions and Innovations , Columbus, OH.
R KowatchCenter for Innovation in Pediatric Practice , Columbus, OH.
S LinResearch Information Solutions and Innovations , Columbus, OH.
M SplaingardSleep Disorder Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital , Columbus, OH.
Y HuangResearch Information Solutions and Innovations , Columbus, OH.
Clinical Research Solutions · USNationwide Children's Hospital · USCenter for Innovation · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledNationwide Children's Hospital established an i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside) application for sleep disorder cohort identification. Discrete data were gleaned from semistructured sleep study reports. The system showed to work more efficiently than the traditional manual chart review method, and it also enabled searching capabilities that were previously not possible.

objectiveWe report on the development and implementation of the sleep disorder i2b2 cohort identification system using natural language processing of semi-structured documents.

methodsWe developed a natural language processing approach to automatically parse concepts and their values from semi-structured sleep study documents. Two parsers were developed: a regular expression parser for extracting numeric concepts and a NLP based tree parser for extracting textual concepts. Concepts were further organized into i2b2 ontologies based on document structures and in-domain knowledge.

results26,550 concepts were extracted with 99% being textual concepts. 1.01 million facts were extracted from sleep study documents such as demographic information, sleep study lab results, medications, procedures, diagnoses, among others. The average accuracy of terminology parsing was over 83% when comparing against those by experts. The system is capable of capturing both standard and non-standard terminologies. The time for cohort identification has been reduced significantly from a few weeks to a few seconds.

conclusionNatural language processing was shown to be powerful for quickly converting large amount of semi-structured or unstructured clinical data into discrete concepts, which in combination of intuitive domain specific ontologies, allows fast and effective interactive cohort identification through the i2b2 platform for research and clinical use.

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Natural Language ProcessingBiological OntologiesCohort StudiesData MiningHumansMedical InformaticsTerminology as TopicUser-Computer Interfaceclinical ontologycohort identificationi2b2natural language processing (NLP)Sleep disorder

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PMCPMC4493335
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