Document Detail


High accuracy information extraction of medication information from clinical notes: 2009 i2b2 medication extraction challenge.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20819856     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: Medication information comprises a most valuable source of data in clinical records. This paper describes use of a cascade of machine learners that automatically extract medication information from clinical records.
DESIGN: Authors developed a novel supervised learning model that incorporates two machine learning algorithms and several rule-based engines.
MEASUREMENTS: Evaluation of each step included precision, recall and F-measure metrics. The final outputs of the system were scored using the i2b2 workshop evaluation metrics, including strict and relaxed matching with a gold standard.
RESULTS: Evaluation results showed greater than 90% accuracy on five out of seven entities in the name entity recognition task, and an F-measure greater than 95% on the relationship classification task. The strict micro averaged F-measure for the system output achieved best submitted performance of the competition, at 85.65%.
LIMITATIONS: Clinical staff will only use practical processing systems if they have confidence in their reliability. Authors estimate that an acceptable accuracy for a such a working system should be approximately 95%. This leaves a significant performance gap of 5 to 10% from the current processing capabilities.
CONCLUSION: A multistage method with mixed computational strategies using a combination of rule-based classifiers and statistical classifiers seems to provide a near-optimal strategy for automated extraction of medication information from clinical records.
Authors:
Jon Patrick; Min Li
Related Documents :
20703656 - Applying ontology techniques to develop a medication history search and alert system in...
11730196 - Delivery of erythropoietin with a needleless injection system during hemodialysis maint...
11604946 - Supporting discovery in medicine by association rule mining in medline and umls.
15871176 - A problem-based e-learning prototype system for clinical medical education.
19520676 - Economic and practical aspects of thromboprophylaxis with unfractionated and low-molecu...
19272826 - Medical malpractice charges in germany--a survey.
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA     Volume:  17     ISSN:  1527-974X     ISO Abbreviation:  J Am Med Inform Assoc     Publication Date:    2010 Sep-Oct
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-09-07     Completed Date:  2010-11-15     Revised Date:  2011-09-13    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9430800     Medline TA:  J Am Med Inform Assoc     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  524-7     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering and IT, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. jonpat@it.usyd.edu.au
Export Citation:
APA/MLA Format     Download EndNote     Download BibTex
MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Artificial Intelligence
Electronic Health Records*
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
Natural Language Processing*
Pharmaceutical Preparations*
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
U54LM008748/LM/NLM NIH HHS
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Pharmaceutical Preparations
Comments/Corrections

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine


Previous Document:  Community annotation experiment for ground truth generation for the i2b2 medication challenge.
Next Document:  Integrating existing natural language processing tools for medication extraction from discharge summ...