Øystein Nytrø


2023

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Method for Designing Semantic Annotation of Sepsis Signs in Clinical Text
Melissa Yan | Lise Gustad | Lise Høvik | Øystein Nytrø
Proceedings of the 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop

Annotated clinical text corpora are essential for machine learning studies that model and predict care processes and disease progression. However, few studies describe the necessary experimental design of the annotation guideline and annotation phases. This makes replication, reuse, and adoption challenging. Using clinical questions about sepsis, we designed a semantic annotation guideline to capture sepsis signs from clinical text. The clinical questions aid guideline design, application, and evaluation. Our method incrementally evaluates each change in the guideline by testing the resulting annotated corpus using clinical questions. Additionally, our method uses inter-annotator agreement to judge the annotator compliance and quality of the guideline. We show that the method, combined with controlled design increments, is simple and allows the development and measurable improvement of a purpose-built semantic annotation guideline. We believe that our approach is useful for incremental design of semantic annotation guidelines in general.

2020

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Classification of Syncope Cases in Norwegian Medical Records
Ildiko Pilan | Pål H. Brekke | Fredrik A. Dahl | Tore Gundersen | Haldor Husby | Øystein Nytrø | Lilja Øvrelid
Proceedings of the 3rd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop

Loss of consciousness, so-called syncope, is a commonly occurring symptom associated with worse prognosis for a number of heart-related diseases. We present a comparison of methods for a diagnosis classification task in Norwegian clinical notes, targeting syncope, i.e. fainting cases. We find that an often neglected baseline with keyword matching constitutes a rather strong basis, but more advanced methods do offer some improvement in classification performance, especially a convolutional neural network model. The developed pipeline is planned to be used for quantifying unregistered syncope cases in Norway.

2018

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Iterative development of family history annotation guidelines using a synthetic corpus of clinical text
Taraka Rama | Pål Brekke | Øystein Nytrø | Lilja Øvrelid
Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis

In this article, we describe the development of annotation guidelines for family history information in Norwegian clinical text. We make use of incrementally developed synthetic clinical text describing patients’ family history relating to cases of cardiac disease and present a general methodology which integrates the synthetically produced clinical statements and guideline development. We analyze inter-annotator agreement based on the developed guidelines and present results from experiments aimed at evaluating the validity and applicability of the annotated corpus using machine learning techniques. The resulting annotated corpus contains 477 sentences and 6030 tokens. Both the annotation guidelines and the annotated corpus are made freely available and as such constitutes the first publicly available resource of Norwegian clinical text.

2010

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Characteristics and Analysis of Finnish and Swedish Clinical Intensive Care Nursing Narratives
Helen Allvin | Elin Carlsson | Hercules Dalianis | Riitta Danielsson-Ojala | Vidas Daudaravicius | Martin Hassel | Dimitrios Kokkinakis | Heljä Lundgren-Laine | Gunnar Nilsson | Øystein Nytrø | Sanna Salanterä | Maria Skeppstedt | Hanna Suominen | Sumithra Velupillai
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Second Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents