Deep-Learning-Based Natural Language Processing of Serial Free-Text Radiological Reports for Predicting Rectal Cancer Patient Survival

Sunkyu Kim, Choong Kun Lee, Yonghwa Choi, Eun Sil Baek, Jeong Eun Choi, Joon Seok Lim, Jaewoo Kang, Sang Joon Shin

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    Abstract

    Most electronic medical records, such as free-text radiological reports, are unstructured; however, the methodological approaches to analyzing these accumulating unstructured records are limited. This article proposes a deep-transfer-learning-based natural language processing model that analyzes serial magnetic resonance imaging reports of rectal cancer patients and predicts their overall survival. To evaluate the model, a retrospective cohort study of 4,338 rectal cancer patients was conducted. The experimental results revealed that the proposed model utilizing pre-trained clinical linguistic knowledge could predict the overall survival of patients without any structured information and was superior to the carcinoembryonic antigen in predicting survival. The deep-transfer-learning model using free-text radiological reports can predict the survival of patients with rectal cancer, thereby increasing the utility of unstructured medical big data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number747250
    JournalFrontiers in Oncology
    Volume11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021 Nov 17

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This study was supported by a Severance Hospital Research fund for Clinical excellence (SHRC) (C-2020-0030), the Big Data Center at the National Cancer Center of Korea (2020-datawe08), the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (grant number: HR20C0021(3)), and Korea University Grant.

    Publisher Copyright:
    Copyright © 2021 Kim, Lee, Choi, Baek, Choi, Lim, Kang and Shin.

    Keywords

    • MRI
    • deep learning
    • natural language processing (NLP)
    • rectal cancer
    • survival prediction

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Oncology
    • Cancer Research

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