Speech recognition software can be leveraged to tell if a radiologist is stressed, prompting individualized interventions to improve quality and satisfaction.

C. Matthew Hawkins, MD, discusses challenges of natural language processing and how more standardization can reduce error rates of speech recognition software.

Whether you’ve embraced voice recognition software or rely on a transcriptionist, there’s still the problem of large amounts of text that’s largely unusable. Enter natural language processing, which makes structured reporting and data mining possible by coding the text and extracting data.