Patent ID: 11941359
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer-executable instructions for configuring a processor to identify anatomical phrases in medical text, the medium comprising computer-executable instructions executed by the configured processor for:
accessing one or more data sources comprising medical information using a network interface, the medical information comprising medical text;
extracting a set of concepts from a subset of at least one of the data sources;
identifying a plurality of terms associated with each of the concepts, wherein identifying the plurality of terms associated with each of the concepts includes identifying synonyms of each concept;
implementing a syntactic method by:
sorting the identified terms into one or more anatomy lists and one or more general lists, wherein the sorting includes initially sorting single term synonyms into anatomy-specific nouns or adjectives based on whether one of the concepts is a body structure or an anatomy-specific descriptor, then iteratively adding additional terms for further sorting into an anatomy-specific noun or adjective and a specific or general noun or adjective, the general noun or adjective for use in describing an anatomy without denoting anything anatomical standing alone;
defining a grammar on the one or more anatomy lists and the one or more general lists by applying at least one grammar rule to at least one term from the one or more anatomy lists and at least one term from the one or more general lists to generate at least one composite term; and

identifying the at least one composite term associated with the medical text accessed using the network interface.