Text mining of cancer-related information: Review of current status and future directions
Narrative reports can be used for predictive modelling of cancer. Natural language processing can be used to structure information from free text reports. Synoptic reporting formats indicate which types of information should be extracted from narrative reports. Comprehensive cancer ontology is needed to support semantic interpretation of clinical narratives. Machine learning approaches are yet to be fully explored in text mining of cancer information.
cancer natural language processing data mining electronic medical records