{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/deduce-a-pattern-matching-method-for","title":"DEDUCE: A pattern matching method for automatic de-identification of Dutch medical text","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2018-07-01","proceeding":"Telematics and Informatics 2018 7","authors":["Vincent Menger","Floor Scheepers","Lisette Maria van Wijk","Marco Spruit"],"abstract":"In order to use medical text for research purposes, it is necessary to de-identify the text for legal and privacy reasons. We report on a pattern matching method to automatically de-identify medical text written in Dutch, which requires a low amount of effort to be hand tailored. First, a selection of Protected Health Information (PHI) categories is determined in cooperation with medical staff. Then, we devise a method for de-identifying all information in one of these PHI categories, that relies on lookup tables, decision rules and fuzzy string matching. Our de-identification method DEDUCE is validated on a test corpus of 200 nursing notes and 200 treatment plans obtained from the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands, achieving a total micro-averaged precision of 0.814, a recall of 0.916 and a F1-score of 0.862. For person names, a recall of 0.964 was achieved, while no names of patients were missed.","url_abs":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585316307365","url_pdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585316307365","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"deduce-a-pattern-matching-method-for","repo_url":"https://github.com/vmenger/deduce","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"de-identification","task_name":"De-identification"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}