Natural Language Processing
Natural language processing has emerged as a promising building block towards full automation of tracking systems.[52–55] NLP-enabled applications can extract information from radiology reports and identify text that represents either AIFs or follow-up ecommendations.[48,56] Currently, NLP tools can identify radiology reports with follow-up recommendations entered into a tracking system, but chart review and additional follow-up actions still require dedicated staffing.
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