A fast text structuring methodology of TCM medical records based on NLP

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) medical records are the most valuable documents for TCM doctors to learn clinical experience.The structured TCM medical records are conducive to extract the clinic knowledge based on machine learning and other methods, which can accelerate the inheritance of TCM.A fast text structuring methodology of TCM medical records based on natural language processing(NLP)was proposed to structure the clinic cases.Essence of Chinese Modern Famous Chinese Medical Records was selected as the medical record structuring objects,and the text in the screenshots of the medical records was recognized by optical character recognition (OCR) and the text was initially structured.A simple symptom dictionary was constructed, and the improved N-gram model combined with the dictionary was used to recognize the symptoms, signs and other words in the text, and the dictionary was updated in the structuring process.At last, 4 754 text medical records were structured.The final model was test on 666 medical