non Medical entity extraction

Hi All, Is there an option currently available with CTAKES for extracting patient name, age etc. from Medical records and lab reports? Thanks, Abilash Mathew This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and

Re: non Medical entity extraction [EXTERNAL]

No, there is not that I'm aware of. While that information is often in the note, it is also usually in structured fields where it can be extracted with ~100% accuracy so it's not a high priority for NLP. Thanks Tim On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 09:26 +, abilash.mat...@cognizant.com wrote: > Hi All,

Re: Custom Dictionary connected to mysql

Hi Gandhi, Thank you for your help. It's working now. In the customDictionary.xml, I changed org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup2.dictionary.JdbcRareWordDictionary to org.apache.ctakes.dictionary.lookup2.dictionary.UmlsJdbcRareWordDictionary and

Re: Custom Dictionary connected to mysql [EXTERNAL]

Hi Sean, I wanted the lookup to be case insensitive. Also wanted to go away with the restriction of putting enteries in lowercase in database like the way it was working with BSV. But if lowercase enteries are expected in database then I guess modifying database will work for me. On Fri, 22 Dec

Re: non Medical entity extraction [EXTERNAL]

That makes sense. What would be a good way to extract information about the “structured fields” from the notes. Is there a specific module for it. Thanks, Nitesh > On Dec 21, 2017, at 4:24 AM, Miller, Timothy > wrote: > > No, there is not that I'm

Re: non Medical entity extraction [EXTERNAL]

By structured fields I mean non-note sources. Notes might be stored in a database and other columns/tables in that database will contain patient metadata, such as sex, birthdate, insurance status, etc. Extracting this information is probably institution-specific. If you don't have access to this

RE: Custom Dictionary connected to mysql

I feel Sean and Tim will be the right persons to answer this. Regards, Gandhi -Original Message- From: Chahal Arora [mailto:chahal.ar...@raxa.com] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 7:32 PM To: dev@ctakes.apache.org Subject: Re: Custom Dictionary connected to mysql Hi Gandhi, Thank you

RE: Custom Dictionary connected to mysql [EXTERNAL]

Do you want your lookup to be case sensitive? If so then new code would be required. The lookup is case insensitive because it does expect the dictionary/database to contain only lowercase entries. If you are ok with the case insensitivity then I propose that you modify your database. Sean