Natural language processing of radiology reports to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and age distribution of fractures

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients presenting in hospitals because of emergency conditions decreased. Radiology is thus confronted with the effects of the pandemic. The aim of this study was to use natural language processing (NLP) to automatically analyze the number and distribution of fractures during the pandemic and in the 5 years before the pandemic.We used a pre-trained commercially available NLP engine to automatically...