Communications Medicine (Oct 2021)

Development and multicenter validation of chest X-ray radiography interpretations based on natural language processing

  • Yaping Zhang,
  • Mingqian Liu,
  • Shundong Hu,
  • Yao Shen,
  • Jun Lan,
  • Beibei Jiang,
  • Geertruida H. de Bock,
  • Rozemarijn Vliegenthart,
  • Xu Chen,
  • Xueqian Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-021-00043-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Zhang et al. develop a natural language processing approach, based on the BERT model, to extract linguistic information from chest X-ray radiography reports. The authors establish a 25-label classification system for abnormal findings described in the reports and validate their model using data from multiple sites.