Program generation assisting system for assisting generation of program for analyzing clinical trial

A program generation assisting system for assisting generation of a program for analyzing a clinical trial, the system comprising:

• an interface device configured to acquire text data and image data created from an image/table analysis plan that specifies a method of analyzing the clinical trial and an output format of an analysis result;
• a storage device configured to store the text data and the image data;
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• a processing circuit configured to execute each of a first candidate prediction method using the text data and a second candidate prediction method using the image data to classify the image/table analysis plan into at least one pattern among a plurality of predetermined patterns, and then to output a result as a classification candidate,
• wherein the plurality of patterns are classified in advance according to the clinical trial analyzing method and the analysis result output format,
• the program generation assisting system is provided in advance with a determination rule that defines a relationship of how each of a plurality of text strings corresponds to a pattern in which each text string is classified, and is provided with a trained artificial neural network constructed by training with, as labeled training data, image data of each image/table analysis plan from a plurality of past clinical trials and ground truth patterns obtained by classifying the image data of each image/table analysis plan, and
• the processing circuit uses text strings included in the text data of the image/table analysis plan and the determination rule to output data indicating a first pattern among the plurality of patterns by executing the first candidate prediction method, inputs the image data of the image/table analysis plan into the artificial neural network to acquire data indicating a second pattern output from the artificial neural network by executing the second candidate prediction method, and outputs the first pattern and the second pattern as the classification candidates of an analysis material.