Semantic Knowledge Base Construction from Radiology Reports

Eriksson Monteiro, Pedro Sernadela, Sérgio Matos, Carlos Costa, José Luís Oliveira

2016

Abstract

The tremendous quantity of data stored daily in healthcare institutions demands the development of new methods to summarize and reuse available information in clinical practice. In order to leverage modern healthcare information systems, new strategies must be developed that address challenges such as extraction of relevant information, data redundancy, and the lack of associations within the data. This article proposes a pipeline to overcome these challenges in the context of medical imaging reports, by automatically extracting and linking information, and summarizing natural language reports into an ontology model. Using data from the Physionet MIMIC II database, we created a semantic knowledge base with more than 6.5 millions of triples obtained from a collection of 16,000 radiology reports.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Monteiro E., Sernadela P., Matos S., Costa C. and Oliveira J. (2016). Semantic Knowledge Base Construction from Radiology Reports . In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-170-0, pages 345-352. DOI: 10.5220/0005709503450352

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf16,
author={Eriksson Monteiro and Pedro Sernadela and Sérgio Matos and Carlos Costa and José Luís Oliveira},
title={Semantic Knowledge Base Construction from Radiology Reports},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={345-352},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005709503450352},
isbn={978-989-758-170-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)
TI - Semantic Knowledge Base Construction from Radiology Reports
SN - 978-989-758-170-0
AU - Monteiro E.
AU - Sernadela P.
AU - Matos S.
AU - Costa C.
AU - Oliveira J.
PY - 2016
SP - 345
EP - 352
DO - 10.5220/0005709503450352