Method and system for facilitating consistent use of descriptors in radiology reports

A system for facilitating consistent use of descriptors describing medical images, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• a graphical user interface (GUI) enabling a user to interface with the processor;
• and
• a non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive contents of a radiology report from the user via the GUI describing a medical image of a subject, the contents comprising a measurement of at least one abnormality appearing in the medical image and descriptive text corresponding to the measurement, the descriptive text comprising at least one descriptor of the measurement;
• extract the measurement and the at least one descriptor from the contents of the radiology report using a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm;
• develop a machine learning model including the measurement and the at least one descriptor, wherein the machine learning model determines at least one of a behavior pattern or a practice variation of the user with respect to use of the at least one descriptor relative to industry standards and/or reporting behavior of additional users;
• develop a collective machine learning model of results of the developed machine learning model regarding the behavior patterns and/or the practice variation of the user and results of developed machine learning models regarding behavior patterns and/or practice variations of the additional users based on additional radiology reports from the additional users;
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• measure collective behavior patterns and collective practice variations using collective machine learning model, the measured collective behavior patterns and the collective practice variations being made available as reference to the user.