Nadin Kokciyan, Rustu Turkay, Suzan Uskudarli, Pinar Yolum, Baris Bakir, Burak Acar
Radiologists inspect CT scans and record their observations in reports to communicate with physicians. These reports may suffer from ambiguous language and inconsistencies resulting from subjective reporting styles, which present challenges in interpretation. Standardization efforts, such as the lexicon RadLex for radiology terms, aim to address this issue by developing standard vocabularies. While such vocabularies handle consistent annotation, they fall short in sufficiently processing reports for intelligent applications...
July 2014: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics