Extracting Breast Cancer Phenotypes from Clinical Notes: Comparing LLMs with Classical Ontology Methods
arXiv:2604.06208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A significant amount of data held in Oncology Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is contained in unstructured provider notes — including but not limited to the chemotherapy (or cancer treatment) outcome, different biomarkers, the tumor’s location, sizes, and growth patterns of a patient. The clinical studies show that the majority of oncologists are comfortable providing these valuable insights in their notes in a natural language rather than the relevant structured fields of an EMR. […]