Natural Language Processing for Electronic Health Records in Scandinavian Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18539v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:47:32 GMT
• Title: Natural Language Processing for Electronic Health Records in Scandinavian Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish
• Authors: Ashenafi Zebene Woldaregay, Jørgen Aarmo Lund, Phuong Dinh Ngo, Mariyam Tayefi, Joel Burman, Stine Hansen, Martin Hylleholt Sillesen, Hercules Dalianis, Robert Jenssen, Lindsetmo Rolf Ole, Karl Øyvind Mikalsen,
• Abstract summary: The study aims to perform a systematic review to assess and analyze the state-of-the-art NLP methods for the mainland Scandinavian clinical text.<n>Out of the 113 articles, 18% focus on Norwegian clinical text, 64% (n=72) on Swedish, 10% (n=11) on Danish, and 8% (n=9) focus on more than one language.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Background: Clinical natural language processing (NLP) refers to the use of computational methods for extracting, processing, and analyzing unstructured clinical text data, and holds a huge potential to transform healthcare in various clinical tasks. Objective: The study aims to perform a systematic review to comprehensively assess and analyze the state-of-the-art NLP methods for the mainland Scandinavian clinical text. Method: A literature search was conducted in various online databases including PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, ACM digital library, and IEEE Xplore between December 2022 and February 2024. Further, relevant references to the included articles were also used to solidify our search. The final pool includes articles that conducted clinical NLP in the mainland Scandinavian languages and were published in English between 2010 and 2024. Results: Out of the 113 articles, 18% (n=21) focus on Norwegian clinical text, 64% (n=72) on Swedish, 10% (n=11) on Danish, and 8% (n=9) focus on more than one language. Generally, the review identified positive developments across the region despite some observable gaps and disparities between the languages. There are substantial disparities in the level of adoption of transformer-based models. In essential tasks such as de-identification, there is significantly less research activity focusing on Norwegian and Danish compared to Swedish text. Further, the review identified a low level of sharing resources such as data, experimentation code, pre-trained models, and rate of adaptation and transfer learning in the region. Conclusion: The review presented a comprehensive assessment of the state-of-the-art Clinical NLP for electronic health records (EHR) text in mainland Scandinavian languages and, highlighted the potential barriers and challenges that hinder the rapid advancement of the field in the region.

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