Abstract
The rapid adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems requires advanced enactment strategies for analyzing medical reports. Indeed, the information presented in these reports is difficult to access and it is onerous to analyze it by medical decision support systems. Medical reports characterize full descriptions of the patient diagnosis process. They bring together information about exam steps such as applied techniques, results, synthesis and medical conclusions. In this paper, we propose a medical report modeling and analyzing approach that aims to analyze medical reports for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exams. Ontological model is dedicated to represent information from radiological reports in order to make them comprehensible and machine readable. Moreover, reasoning techniques are used to treat a large amount of clinical data. This provides an analyzing system allowing user to be informed about the evolution of the patient state. The proposed system was successfully applied to a set of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) medical reports from University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand (CHU), France.
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This work was financially supported by the “PHC Utique” program of the French Ministry of Foreign A airs and Ministry of higher education and research and the Tunisian Ministry of higher education and scientific research in the CMCU project number 18G139.
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Messaoudi, R. et al. (2019). An Ontological Model for Analyzing Liver Cancer Medical Reports. In: Themistocleous, M., Rupino da Cunha, P. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11395-7_29
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