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ArticlePloS one2020

tbiExtractor: A framework for extracting traumatic brain injury common data elements from radiology reports.

Margaret Mahan, Daniel Rafter, Hannah Casey, Marta Engelking, Tessneem Abdallah, Charles Truwit, Mark Oswood, Uzma Samadani

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Article in PloS one, 2020. 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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Margaret MahanDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-7332-9523
Daniel RafterDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5608-7382
Hannah CaseyDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
Marta EngelkingDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
Tessneem AbdallahDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
Charles TruwitDiagnostic Imaging, Philips Global, Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States of America.
Mark OswoodDepartment of Radiology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-9942-4094
Uzma SamadaniDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-2566-5909

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe manual extraction of valuable data from electronic medical records is cumbersome, error-prone, and inconsistent. By automating extraction in conjunction with standardized terminology, the quality and consistency of data utilized for research and clinical purposes would be substantially improved. Here, we set out to develop and validate a framework to extract pertinent clinical conditions for traumatic brain injury (TBI) from computed tomography (CT) reports.

methodsWe developed tbiExtractor, which extends pyConTextNLP, a regular expression algorithm using negation detection and contextual features, to create a framework for extracting TBI common data elements from radiology reports. The algorithm inputs radiology reports and outputs a structured summary containing 27 clinical findings with their respective annotations. Development and validation of the algorithm was completed using two physician annotators as the gold standard.

resultstbiExtractor displayed high sensitivity (0.92-0.94) and specificity (0.99) when compared to the gold standard. The algorithm also demonstrated a high equivalence (94.6%) with the annotators. A majority of clinical findings (85%) had minimal errors (F1 Score ≥ 0.80). When compared to annotators, tbiExtractor extracted information in significantly less time (0.3 sec vs 1.7 min per report).

conclusiontbiExtractor is a validated algorithm for extraction of TBI common data elements from radiology reports. This automation reduces the time spent to extract structured data and improves the consistency of data extracted. Lastly, tbiExtractor can be used to stratify subjects into groups based on visible damage by partitioning the annotations of the pertinent clinical conditions on a radiology report.

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AlgorithmsBrain Injuries, TraumaticCommon Data ElementsElectronic Health RecordsHumansTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID32609723
PMCPMC7329124

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