ArticleFrontiers in oncology2023
A scoping review of natural language processing of radiology reports in breast cancer.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Using natural language processing to analyze unstructured patient-reported outcomes data derived from electronic health records for cancer populations: a systematic review.Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research · 2024Pooled it
- Automated Extraction of Postoperative Cancer Recurrence and Metastasis From Computed Tomography (CT) Reports: Semisupervised Deep Learning Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
- Development and evaluation of large-language models (LLMs) for oncology: A scoping review.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Enhancing Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers (BERT) With Frame Semantics to Extract Clinically Relevant Information From German Mammography Reports: Algorithm Development and Validation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Extracting structured data from unstructured breast imaging reports with transformer-based models.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- A survey of NLP methods for oncology in the past decade with a focus on cancer registry applications.Artificial intelligence review · 2025Article
- Revolutionizing Radiology with Natural Language Processing and Chatbot Technologies: A Narrative Umbrella Review on Current Trends and Future Directions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- A scoping review of large language model based approaches for information extraction from radiology reports.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- Large language model-based information extraction from free-text radiology reports: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
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Abstract
Various natural language processing (NLP) algorithms have been applied in the literature to analyze radiology reports pertaining to the diagnosis and subsequent care of cancer patients. Applications of this technology include cohort selection for clinical trials, population of large-scale data registries, and quality improvement in radiology workflows including mammography screening. This scoping review is the first to examine such applications in the specific context of breast cancer. Out of 210 identified articles initially, 44 met our inclusion criteria for this review. Extracted data elements included both clinical and technical details of studies that developed or evaluated NLP algorithms applied to free-text radiology reports of breast cancer. Our review illustrates an emphasis on applications in diagnostic and screening processes over treatment or therapeutic applications and describes growth in deep learning and transfer learning approaches in recent years, although rule-based approaches continue to be useful. Furthermore, we observe increased efforts in code and software sharing but not with data sharing.
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