Evaluating the Impact on Clinical Task Efficiency of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm for Searching Medical Documents: Prospective Crossover Study.

"Conflicts of Interest: HIW and AQO are employees of Canon Medical Research Europe, who provided the software and algorithms for this evaluation. EHP was sponsored by Canon Medical Research Europe during her Spring 2021 BSc research project at the University of Edinburgh (“Evaluation of a natural language processing algorithm for searching medical documents”) which was the basis for this evaluation. EHP had previously performed paid annotation work for the development of the NLP-enhanced search tool."

"This work is part of the Industrial Centre for Artificial intelligence (AI) Research in digital Diagnostics, which is funded by Innovate UK on behalf of UK Research and Innovation (project 104690). FV Mehendale’s research at the University of Edinburgh is supported by the Caledonian Heritable Foundation. Conflicts of Interest: HIW and AQO are employees of Canon Medical Research Europe, who provided the software and algorithms for this evaluation. EHP was sponsored by Canon Medical Research Europe during her Spring 2021 BSc research project at the University of Edinburgh (“Evaluation of a natural language processing algorithm for searching medical documents”) which was the basis for this evaluation. EHP had previously performed paid annotation work for the development of the NLP-enhanced search tool."