Words have meaning.
A lot of words have a lot of meaning.
Radiologists read computed tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
to support or confirm the diagnoses.
While interpreting these images, they provide narrative reports that detail issues like
stroke occurrence and other pertinent information including acuity, location, and size.
Because of their unstructured nature and large use of varied vocabulary, it is not easy to
use this data for research, or for real-time identification of stroke.
The ability to automate the extraction of meaningful data from radiology reports, specifically
pulling out key words and phrases, would enable quick and accurate identification of strokes
and relevant features such as location and acuity.
Join this module to learn how radiologists structure data to prevent stroke.