| 摘要 |
A method for processing medical reports is disclosed. An initial segmentation textual contents of a medical report into information units is performed using natural language processing methods, thereby addressing the challenge of identifying information units, such as text fragments, sentences or text passages, covered within medical reports that are of relevance for a particular context. The information units are then classified into at least one context class to determine their appropriate context classes for a particular situation or application. The context classifications are created using a grammar, e.g., a context-free grammar, and can then be used for automatically assigning each information unit to an appropriate context meta-information. The medical report is then annotated by assigning at least one of said information units to at least one context meta-information determined by said context class. The context meta-information may be then used by other applications. |
