A Natural Language Processing Tool for Large-Scale Data Extraction from Echocardiography Reports

Chinmoy Nath; Mazen S. Albaghdadi; Siddhartha R. Jonnalagadda

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153749

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A Natural Language Processing Tool for Large-Scale Data Extraction from Echocardiography Reports

Chinmoy Nath ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chinmoy Nath, Mazen S. Albaghdadi

Affiliation Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Mazen S. Albaghdadi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chinmoy Nath, Mazen S. Albaghdadi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Siddhartha R. Jonnalagadda

* E-mail: sid@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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A Natural Language Processing Tool for Large-Scale Data Extraction from Echocardiography Reports

Chinmoy Nath,
Mazen S. Albaghdadi,
Siddhartha R. Jonnalagadda

Published: April 28, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153749

About the Authors

Chinmoy Nath

Contributed equally to this work with: Chinmoy Nath, Mazen S. Albaghdadi

Affiliation Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mazen S. Albaghdadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Chinmoy Nath, Mazen S. Albaghdadi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Siddhartha R. Jonnalagadda

* E-mail: sid@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRJ CN. Performed the experiments: CN. Analyzed the data: CN MSA SRJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRJ MSA CN. Wrote the paper: CN MSA SRJ.

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