Interactive Software for Generation and Visualization of Structured Findings in Radiology Reports

Our objectives were to develop a user-friendly graphic interface for a module that integrates traditional radiology reporting, natural language processing, and editing capabilities; to facilitate the structuring of radiology reports as part of routine clinical practice; to use a commercial speech recognition module for online transcription; and to implement the module in a hardware-independent environment. After implementation, the module was tested with 150 chest radiology reports by two radiologists and assessed for ease of use and accuracy. Overall, accuracy was close to 90% and user satisfaction was high. When radiology reports are structured as a part of routine clinical practice, it is possible to accomplish intelligent indexing and retrieval to facilitate teaching and research. Supported by National Institutes of Health grant NCI:2P01CA51198-06. Read More: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/ajr.175.3.175060