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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

A NLP Pipeline for the Automatic Extraction of a Complete Microorganism's Picture from Microbiological Notes.

Sara Mora, Jacopo Attene, Roberta Gazzarata, Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Bernd Blobel, Giustino Parruti, Mauro Giacomini

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Sara MoraDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, 16145 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0613-3248
Jacopo AtteneDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, 16145 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1009-4827
Roberta GazzarataHealthropy, Corso Italia 15/6, 17100 Savona, Italy.
Daniele Roberto GiacobbeInfectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS San Martino Polyclinic Hospital, 16132 Genoa, Italy.
Bernd BlobelMedical Faculty, University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Giustino ParrutiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, AUSL Pescara, 65124 Pescara, Italy.
Mauro GiacominiDepartment of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, 16145 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5646-2034

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Abstract

The Italian "Istituto Superiore di Sanità" (ISS) identifies hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) as the most frequent and serious complications in healthcare. HAIs constitute a real health emergency and, therefore, require decisive action from both local and national health organizations. Information about the causative microorganisms of HAIs is obtained from the results of microbiological cultures of specimens collected from infected body sites, but microorganisms' names are sometimes reported only in the notes field of the culture reports. The objective of our work was to build a NLP-based pipeline for the automatic information extraction from the notes of microbiological culture reports. We analyzed a sample composed of 499 texts of notes extracted from 1 month of anonymized laboratory referral. First, our system filtered texts in order to remove nonmeaningful sentences. Thereafter, it correctly extracted all the microorganisms' names according to the expert's labels and linked them to a set of very important metadata such as the translations into national/international vocabularies and standard definitions. As the major result of our pipeline, the system extracts a complete picture of the microorganism.

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hospital-acquired infectionsinformation extractioninternational coding systemlaboratory information systemsnatural language processing

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PMCPMC9504513

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