TY - GEN
T1 - Towards natural language interface framework for automated medical analysis
AU - Sebastian, Yakub
AU - Loh, Brian C.S.
AU - Then, Patrick H.H.
PY - 2009/11/12
Y1 - 2009/11/12
N2 - Constructing a practical medical data analysis system for real-life scenario remains challenging. While the development of various medical data analysis algorithms is rapidly advancing, it has not been matched by the development of a feasible, practical application framework for their implementation. In this paper, we introduce a medical data analysis framework based on natural language QA interface to structured medical data sources. We demonstrate that the complexities of performing medical data analyses can be simplified into question answering framework. Utilizing standard medical vocabularies, two hypothetical clinical questions are interpreted and the required analytics are automatically performed to produce textual and non-textual data for clinicians.
AB - Constructing a practical medical data analysis system for real-life scenario remains challenging. While the development of various medical data analysis algorithms is rapidly advancing, it has not been matched by the development of a feasible, practical application framework for their implementation. In this paper, we introduce a medical data analysis framework based on natural language QA interface to structured medical data sources. We demonstrate that the complexities of performing medical data analyses can be simplified into question answering framework. Utilizing standard medical vocabularies, two hypothetical clinical questions are interpreted and the required analytics are automatically performed to produce textual and non-textual data for clinicians.
KW - Automated medical data analysis
KW - Natural language interface to database
KW - Restricted-domain question answering system
KW - UMLS concept mapping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70449084812&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234782
DO - 10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234782
M3 - Conference Paper published in Proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:70449084812
SN - 9781424445196
T3 - Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009
SP - 5
EP - 9
BT - Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009
T2 - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009
Y2 - 8 August 2009 through 11 August 2009
ER -