Project Objective
The CIPAR project objective is to generate accurate and timely cancer information to support systems for cancer management, both for individual patients and at a population-level analyses. The project aims to develop computer aided clinical cancer information processing and reporting systems that will assist with the consistent and timely data collection and facilitate comparative analysis, benchmarking, and reporting of health data respect to cancer. This project builds on the CSIS Project and research capabilities in medical language processing and clinical terminologies within the Australian e-Health Research Centre.
Current Work
The project will initially focus on developing a computer aided cancer notifications tool which incorporates the identification, synoptic reporting and staging, and tracking of patient cancer cases from pathology feeds from a state-wide oncology information system. Through the use of large ontologies, in particular SNOMED CT, we hope to better understand complex medical terms found in pathology reports.
By automating the collation, analysis, summarisation and classification of relevant patient data (pathologist reports and metadata), the reliance on expert clinical staff can be lessened, improving the efficiency and availability of cancer information. This research will produce engineered software prototypes and evaluate these in appropriate proof-of-concept and clinical user trials.
