DIAGNOSTIC REPORT SEARCH SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND DIAGNOSTIC REPORT SEARCHING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology of rapidly and completely searching past diagnostic reports to be referred to. SOLUTION: The diagnostic report search supporting apparatus and a diagnostic report searching apparatus each have: a structuring processing part which extracts terms from a sentence by even sentence written in a diagnostic report, and classifies the terms into predetermined kinds to structure the sentence; a related-term analyzing part which generates combinations each composed of two or more terms based on the plurality of terms extracted by the structuring processing part; a counting part which counts the existence number of same combinations, and extracts combinations whose existence numbers are a predetermined number or more; and a keyword extracting part which extracts a combination including an input desired keyword from the combinations extracted by the counting means, and extracts a term other than the desired keyword as a related keyword from the extracted combinations. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT