AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF PATIENT DISEASE CONTEXT USING EVIDENTIARY TIMELINES

A method for classifying medical reports of a patient, including: receiving a plurality of patient medical reports; processing the plurality of patient medical reports to produce a processed report that extracts patient medical information; estimating the similarity between the plurality of medical reports based upon the extracted patient medical information; clustering similar medical reports; inferring a group type for the clustered medical reports and labeling the clustered medical reports with the inferred group type; and visualizing the labelled clustered medical reports on a display.