Improving Content Based Recovery on a Radiological Reports Database

The present effort focuses on developing a method for assisting the representation of radiological reports, written in simplified natural language, in a standardized and content recovery prone structure, such as DICOM Structured Report. Sample reports were collected and have being analyzed. The work is currently in process, but an intermediary representation was already reached and is being evaluated by physicians to attest the accuracy of the results.

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