Attempting to Use MetaMap in Clinical Practice: A Feasibility Study on the Identification of Medical Concepts from Italian Clinical Notes.
Stud Health Technol Inform
; 228: 28-32, 2016.
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| ID: mdl-27577335
ABSTRACT
This study assessed the feasibility of using MetaMap to identify medical concepts from clinical notes written in Italian. We performed two experiments in "EXP 1", we used MetaMap to annotate Italian texts using a knowledge source consisting of Italian UMLS sources only; in "EXP 2", we used MetaMap to analyze an English unsupervised translated version of the original Italian texts. We considered medical concepts related to three semantic categories "Disorders", "Findings" and "Symptoms". Average recall, precision and F-measure were equal to 0.53, 0.98 and 0.69 in "EXP 1", and to 0.75, 0.95 and 0.83 in "EXP 2". For both "EXP 1" and "EXP 2" MetaMap showed better performances for the "Disorders" than for "Findings" and "Symptoms". In conclusion, when using MetaMap with the English translation of the Italian clinical notes, we obtained performances good enough to allow using MetaMap in clinical practice. Further investigation about the types of MetaMap's failures could be useful to understand how to improve performances even better.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Software
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Armazenamento e Recuperação da Informação
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Idioma
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Stud Health Technol Inform
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
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PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália