Classification of periodontitis stage and grade using natural language processing techniques
Nazila Ameli, Tahereh Firoozi, Monica Gibson, Hollis Lai, Akhilanand Chaurasia, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Shalmali Joshi, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Shalmali Joshi · 2024
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Description
Nazila Ameli and co-authors build a decision support tool that reads dental notes to stage gum disease. Their study appeared in 2024. Periodontitis, a deep gum infection, needs staging and grading to plan care. Those facts sit inside free-text charts and notes. The team trained a language model, BERT, on 309 anonymized patient charts from a university clinic.
The model learned to assign stage and grade from the notes alone. On 32 unseen patients it scored 77 percent for stage and 75 percent for grade. A hand-built feature model served as the comparison. The authors say note-reading tools could speed diagnosis and make staging more consistent. The study is a step toward decision support that works from records clinics already keep.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nazila Ameli, Tahereh Firoozi, Monica Gibson, Hollis Lai, Akhilanand Chaurasia, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Shalmali Joshi, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Shalmali Joshi |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 70 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |