Sophia Loda

Ms. Sophia Loda

Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany; Loda_S@ukw.de
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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

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SLSophia Loda
Sophia Loda
JKJonathan Krebs
Jonathan Krebs
SDSophia Danhof
Sophia Danhof
MSMartin Schreder
Martin Schreder
Antonio Giovanni SolimandoAntonio Giovanni Solimando
Antonio Giovanni Solimando
MBMax Bittrich
Max Bittrich
Background: Natural language processing (NLP) is a powerful tool supporting the generation of Real-World Evidence (RWE). There is no NLP system that enables the extensive querying of parameters specific to multiple myeloma (MM) out of unstructured medical reports. We therefore created a MM-specific ontology to accelerate the information extraction (IE) out of unstructured text. Methods: Our MM ontology consists of extensive MM-specific and hierarchically structured attributes and values. We implemented “A Rule-based Information Extraction System” (ARIES) that uses this ontology. We evaluated ARIES on 200 randomly selected medical reports of patients diagnosed with MM. Results: Our system achieved a high F1-Score of 0.92 on the evaluation dataset with a precision of 0.87 and recall of 0.98. Conclusions: Our rule-based IE system enables the comprehensive querying of medical reports. The IE accelerates the extraction of data and enables clinicians to faster generate RWE on hematological issues. RWE helps clinicians to make decisions in an evidence-based manner. Our tool easily accelerates the integration of research evidence into everyday clinical practice.