Extracting Key Findings Compared In an Echocardiogram Report

Echocardiogram report is an important tool to describe and communicate findings noted in an Echocardiography exam. The report completeness, i.e., whether significant changes from prior studies were compared, is a key indicator to measure the quality of an Echocardiography lab. We proposed an NLP-based method to extract key findings that were compared with prior studies, which will be used to evaluate report completeness. The precision, recall, and f-score in detecting key findings are all above 96%.