Table 8 Clinical application category by technical objective
From: A systematic review of natural language processing applied to radiology reports
Application category | Information extraction | Report/sentence | Lexicon/ ontology | Clustering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 73) | Classification (n = 81) | Discovery (n = 9) | (n = 1) | |
Disease information & Classification | 15 | 31 | - | - |
Diagnostic surveillance | 28 | 17 | - | - |
Quality compliance | 5 | 15 | – | – |
Cohort-Epid. | 6 | 10 | – | – |
Language discovery & knowledge | 13 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
Technical NLP | 6 | 4 | – | – |