A Unified Italian Oral Medicine and Orthodontic Language System: a prototype of Natural Language Processing application in healthcare


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Project Description

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) stores patient health data digitally, vital for healthcare advancement recognized by PNRR. Italian Guidelines (GL) aim to create an ecosystem of data-driven services for diagnosis, treatment, and personalized care.

GL advocate for SNOMED-CT adoption for coding systems. This project applies NLP to free-text clinical records in Oral Medicine and Orthodontics, aiding diagnosis and treatment customization, potentially transforming medical education. Advanced analytics (AI and ML) services will make it possible to exploit the enormous potential of health data to support research in the medical field, thus improving prevention, diagnosis, therapies, health monitoring and management. The expected outcome is a user-friendly digital platform facilitating seamless data exchange and enhancing patient care.

This projects is developed by the collaborative efforts of three research units based at the University of Palermo(UNIPA), University of Messina (UNIME), and University of Catania (UNICT).

Principal Investigator

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Antonella Plaia

University of Palermo

Full Professor

Local Coordinators

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Antonella Plaia

University of Palermo

Full Professor

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Marco Cicciù

University of Catania

Full Professor

Giacomo Oteri

University of Messina

Full Professor

University of Palermo

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Antonella Plaia

University of Palermo

Full Professor

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Mariangela Sciandra

University of Palermo

Associate Professor

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Alessandro Albano

University of Palermo

Assistant Professor

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Chiara Di Maria

University of Palermo

Assistant Professor

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Marco Speciale

University of Palermo

PhD student

Biagio Lenzitti

University of Palermo

Confirmed researcher

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Vera Panzarella

University of Palermo

Assistant Professor

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Guido Lacca

University of Palermo

Assistant Professor

University of Messina

Giacomo Oteri

University of Messina

Full Professor

University of Catania

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Marco Cicciù

University of Catania

Full Professor