Let’s ask the patient: disease prediction based on patients’ symptom descriptions in free text
Published in Rheumatol Adv Pract, 2025
This study evaluates the value self-reported free-text symptom descriptions for supporting diagnostic decisions in osteoarthritis (OA), fibromyalgia (FM) and immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (imRD) using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML).
Recommended citation: Pérez-Sancristóbal I, Steinz N, Qin L, Maarseveen T, Zegers F, Bislawska Axnäs B, Rodríguez-Rodríguez L, Knevel R. (2025) "Let’s ask the patient: disease prediction based on patients’ symptom descriptions in free text" Rheumatol Adv Pract. 2025 Sep 10;9(4):rkaf103. doi: 10.1093/rap/rkaf103. eCollection 2025.
Recommended citation: Pérez-Sancristóbal I, Steinz N, Qin L, Maarseveen T, Zegers F, Bislawska Axnäs B, Rodríguez-Rodríguez L, Knevel R. (2025) "Let's ask the patient: disease prediction based on patients' symptom descriptions in free text" Rheumatol Adv Pract. 2025 Sep 10;9(4):rkaf103. doi: 10.1093/rap/rkaf103. eCollection 2025.
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