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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2015 Feb 3;54:77–84. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.01.010

Table 5.

Results of confidence flags

Confidence Flags Mass Calcification Asymmetry Architectural distortion
No review required: NLP did not detect any mention of a finding in a report N 19836 17978 82051 64083
% 21.2 19.2 87.5 68.4
Needs review: NLP detected findings discordant with BI-RADS assessments N 531 NA NA NA
% 0.6 NA NA NA
Needs review: both negative and affirmative mentions of a finding in one report N 1022 5136 198 359
% 1.1 5.5 0.2 0.4
Needs review: more than one negation word with a finding in a sentence N 102 122 11 119
% 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
Needs review: sentences with phrases of “recent”, “previous” or “prior”. N 244 905 1699 661
% 0.3 1.0 1.8 0.7