Extracting relevant information from physician-patient dialogues for automated clinical note taking

Serena Jeblee, Faiza Khan Khattak, Noah Crampton, Muhammad Mamdani, Frank Rudzicz


Abstract
We present a system for automatically extracting pertinent medical information from dialogues between clinicians and patients. The system parses each dialogue and extracts entities such as medications and symptoms, using context to predict which entities are relevant. We also classify the primary diagnosis for each conversation. In addition, we extract topic information and identify relevant utterances. This serves as a baseline for a system that extracts information from dialogues and automatically generates a patient note, which can be reviewed and edited by the clinician.
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D19-6209
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2019)
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November
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2019
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Hong Kong
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Eben Holderness, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Alberto Lavelli, Anne-Lyse Minard, James Pustejovsky, Fabio Rinaldi
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Louhi
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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65–74
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-6209
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-6209
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Serena Jeblee, Faiza Khan Khattak, Noah Crampton, Muhammad Mamdani, and Frank Rudzicz. 2019. Extracting relevant information from physician-patient dialogues for automated clinical note taking. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2019), pages 65–74, Hong Kong. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Extracting relevant information from physician-patient dialogues for automated clinical note taking (Jeblee et al., Louhi 2019)
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