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From: Improved de-identification of physician notes through integrative modeling of both public and private medical text

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Phases of the Scrubber annotation pipeline. Lexical Phase: split document into sentences, tag part of speech for each token. Frequency Phase: calculate term frequency with and without part of speech tag. Dictionary Phase: search for each word/phrase in ten medical dictionaries. Known PHI Phase: match US census names and textual patterns for each PHI type.

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

ISSN: 1472-6947

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