Medical Text Analysis System - Natural Language Processing

The Medical Text Analysis System (MedTAS) is a UIMA-based, modular and flexible system that uses advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to extract structured information from unstructured data sources, such as pathology reports, clinical notes, discharge summaries, and medical literature. MedTAS is also a development platform that is adaptable to customer and domain requirements. It has been designed to operate within institutional systems, and seamlessly integrates with IBM products, such as the DB2 Data warehouse.

Implementations of MedTAS have been developed for major medical institutions. MedTAS/P is a version customized for the pathology domain. It is based on a novel representation of cancer, its characteristics and disease progression.