CREATe: Clinical Report Extraction and Annotation Technology
This addresses the problem of inefficient access and curation of clinical case reports for medical researchers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing extraction and indexing techniques.
The authors tackled the lack of an end-to-end system for managing clinical case reports by developing CREATe, a platform for extracting, indexing, and querying these reports, which enables researchers to overcome information science challenges.
Clinical case reports are written descriptions of the unique aspects of a particular clinical case, playing an essential role in sharing clinical experiences about atypical disease phenotypes and new therapies. However, to our knowledge, there has been no attempt to develop an end-to-end system to annotate, index, or otherwise curate these reports. In this paper, we propose a novel computational resource platform, CREATe, for extracting, indexing, and querying the contents of clinical case reports. CREATe fosters an environment of sustainable resource support and discovery, enabling researchers to overcome the challenges of information science. An online video of the demonstration can be viewed at https://youtu.be/Q8owBQYTjDc.