Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Qinan Hu

Yaohai Huang

Ruishan Guo

This invention provides a method for extracting a diagnosis object from a medical document comprises: extracting, from an input medical document, body part entities and at least one type of non-body-part entities and the relations between the body part entities and the non-body-part entities; obtaining, for each pair of all possible pairs of the non-body-part entities, a relevance score between two non-body-part entities within one pair, wherein the relevance score is obtained by using the relations between the two non-body-part entities within one pair and one or more body part entities in a plurality of historical medical documents; clustering the non-body-part entities in the input medical document into one or more clusters based on the relevance scores of the all possible pairs; and outputting one or more body part entities related to one or more non-body-part entities clustered in each of the clusters as one diagnosis object.

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Qinan Hu