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J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:275-285 doi:10.1197/jamia.M1695
  • The Practice of Informatics

Improved Identification of Noun Phrases in Clinical Radiology Reports Using a High-Performance Statistical Natural Language Parser Augmented with the UMLS Specialist Lexicon

Table 8

Performance Changes from Baseline by Using Extended Lexicon, and Using Both Extended Lexicon and Customized Grammar

Report Type NPI Version Change in True-Positives Change in False-Positives Change in False-Negatives Change in Precision Change in Recall Change in F1
CT SL 6.0% −29.7% −37.8% 5.5% 6.0% 5.8%
SL+GR 8.3% −55.9% −52.0% 10.0% 8.3% 9.2%
MAMMO SL 11.5% −71.4% −42.9% 18.7% 11.5% 15.0%
SL+GR 11.5% −71.4% −42.9% 18.7% 11.5% 15.0%
MR SL 3.9% −30.0% −26.9% 4.0% 3.8% 3.9%
SL+GR 5.1% −43.0% −35.6% 5.7% 5.0% 5.3%
PROC SL 2.5% −33.3% −29.0% 3.5% 2.5% 3.0%
SL+GR 3.1% −70.0% −68.3% 9.4% 8.2% 8.8%
RAD SL 8.7% −25.5% −40.0% 4.8% 8.7% 6.8%
SL+GR 9.5% −31.9% −43.3% 5.8% 9.5% 7.7%
US SL 18.8% −45.5% −50.0% 16.1% 18.8% 17.4%
SL+GR 31.3% −81.8% −83.3% 28.3% 31.3% 29.8%
All SL 5.3% −31.1% −34.3% 4.8% 5.2% 5.0%
SL+GR 6.8% −48.3% −44.2% 7.4% 6.7% 7.1%

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