Title :
An automated injury coding system
Author :
Tong, Richard M. ; Appelbaum, Lee A. ; Balcom, Laura Blumer
Author_Institution :
Adv. Decision syst., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors describe a prototype expert system for assigning codes to injuries detected in medical records such as hospital discharge summaries and coroner´s reports. The system is intended to assist investigators in the task of analyzing official data related to injuries sustained by the occupants of automobiles involved in highway accidents. The design draws on previous work by the authors in the areas of knowledge-based information retrieval and pragmatically oriented natural-language processing. The prototype system is implemented on a high-performance workstation and can correctly identify and code a range of injury types
Keywords :
classification; expert systems; information retrieval; knowledge acquisition; medical computing; natural languages; CAUCUS; CORES; RUBRIC; automated injury coding system; highway accidents; hospital discharge summaries; injury types; knowledge-based information retrieval; medical records; pragmatically oriented natural-language processing; prototype expert system; text understanding; text-skimming system; Automobiles; Data analysis; Hospitals; Information retrieval; Injuries; Medical expert systems; Prototypes; Road accidents; Road transportation; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
AI Systems in Government Conference, 1989.,Proceedings of the Annual
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1934-1
DOI :
10.1109/AISIG.1989.47299
