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Identifying potential patient candidates for clinical trials

US10162866B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 9, 2017
Grant dateDec 25, 2018
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Expiry dateAug 9, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG16H40/63
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer system gleans data from patient records and clinical trial descriptions using NLP techniques. NLP annotation data is used to generate clinical trial feature vectors and patient feature vectors. Clinical trial feature vectors and patient feature vectors are compared to match appropriate patient candidates with clinical trial openings.

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