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Language and Radiological Reporting

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Structured Reporting in Radiology

Part of the book series: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare Professionals ((IIHP))

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Radiology reporting, long a free-text based exercise, is evolving into a more structured form. This enhances standardisation of report language and structure and enables report comparison, multi-centre research, data mining and radiomics development and many other benefits. This chapter focuses on the evolution of standardisation of radiology report language, from early advice on careful language use, through the development of standard terminological sets for use in specific situations, to current developments in inter-linked medical and radiological ontologies and reporting systems.

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    Mansoor Fatehi

  2. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Daniel Pinto dos Santos

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Brady, A. (2022). Language and Radiological Reporting. In: Fatehi, M., Pinto dos Santos, D. (eds) Structured Reporting in Radiology. Imaging Informatics for Healthcare Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91349-6_1

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