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Warning

These instructions are under construction.

These instructions are for end users. With these instructions you can install cTAKES, configure it, and use it to process text (typically text associated with a medical record). If you were planning to expand, change, or modify the code within cTAKES, refer to the cTAKES 3.0 Developer Guide.

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Annotator

Description

Abbreviated

Example Aggregate Analysis Engine (AE)

Example Collection processing Engine (CPE) Example test data

Clinical Document Pipeline

the complete cTAKES pipeline to obtain majority of cTAKES annotations

cdp

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-clinical-pipeline/desc/analysis_engine/AggregatePlaintextProcessor.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-clinical-pipeline/desc/collection_processing_engine/test1.xml

cTAKES_HOME/testdata/cdptest

Chunker

obtain cTAKES chunking chunk annotations

chunker

NA

NA

Dependency Parser

obtain dependency parsing tree

dependency

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-chunkerdependency-parser/desc/analysis_engine/ChunkerAggregateClearParserSRLTokenizedInfPosAggregate.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-dependency-chunkerparser/desc/ChunkerCPE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/testdata/chunkertest

Dependency Parser

obtain dependency parsing tree

dp

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-dependency-parser/desc/analysis_engine/ClearParserSRLTokenizedInfPosAggregate.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-dependency-parser/desc/collection_processing_engine/ClearParserTestCPE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/testdata/dptest

collection_processing_engine/ClearParserTestCPE.xml

Drug Drug NER

the annotator to obtain drug annotations

drugner

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-drug-ner/desc/analysis_engine/DrugAggregatePlaintextProcesor.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-drug-ner/desc/collection_processing_engine/DrugNER_PlainText_CPE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/testdata/drugnertest

Dictionary Lookup

mapping cTAKES annotations to dictionaries (e.g., SNOMED_CT or RxNorm

lookup dictionary

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-dictionary-lookup/desc/analysis_engine/TestAggregateTAE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-dictionary-lookup/desc/collection_processing_engine/LookupCPE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/testdata/lookuptest NA

PAD Term Spotter

identifying terms related to PAD

pad padtermspotter

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-pad-term-spotter/desc/analysis_engine/Radiology_TermSpotterAnnotatorTAE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-pad-term-spotter/desc/collection_processing_engine/Radiology_Sample.xml

Relation Extractor

annotate certain relations between certain Event, Entity, and Modifier annotations

relation-extractor

cTAKES_HOME/testdata/padtest/desc/ctakes-relation-extractor/desc/analysis_engine/RelationExtractorAggregate.xml

N/A

Smoking Status

the annotator to obtain document or patient-level smoking status smoking

smokingstatus

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-smoking-status/desc/analysis_engine/SimulatedProdSmokingTAE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-smoking-status/desc/collection_processing_engine/Sample_SmokingStatus_output_flatfile.xml cTAKES_HOME/testdata/smokingtest

Side Effect

the annotator to find side effect mentions and sentences from clinical documents

sideeffect

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-side-effect/desc/analysis_engine/SideEffectAggregateTAE.xml

cTAKES_HOME/desc/ctakes-side-effect/desc/collection_processing_engine/SideEffectCPE.xml cTAKES_HOME/testdata/sideeffecttest


Next Steps

The cTAKES 3.0 Component Use Guide will help you to understand, in great detail, each of the cTAKES components that have been installed. In some cases you can learn how to improve the components.

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