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Similarity search for the content of medical records

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Abstract

The paper presents the possibility of direct comparison of medical text content by using unstructured representation of document information in frequency matrix of terms. Dimensionality reduction is performed using Latent Semantic Indexing method. Two common metrics are used: Cosine distance and Jaccard metric. Cosine measure shows a lower sensitivity for finding similar documents. The analysis was performed using SAS Text Analytics elements on set of 400 cases of description of abdominal radiological diagnostic images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Technologies in Medicine - 5th International Conference, ITIB 2016, Proceedings
EditorsEwa Piętka, Pawel Badura, Jacek Kawa, Wojciech Wieclawek
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages489-501
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319397955
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event5th International Conference on Information Technologies in Biomedicine, ITIB 2016 - Kamien Slaski, Poland
Duration: 20 Jun 201622 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume471
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Information Technologies in Biomedicine, ITIB 2016
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKamien Slaski
Period20/06/1622/06/16

Keywords

  • Cosine distance
  • Jaccard metric
  • Medical records
  • Similarity search
  • Text mining

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • General Computer Science

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