Using Natural Language Processing to Identify Symptomatic Adverse Events in Pediatric Oncology: Tutorial for Clinician Researchers

Clifton P Thornton   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Maryam Daniali   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Lei Wang   ^{3, 4 *} , PhD ;   Spandana Makeneni   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Allison Barz Leahy   ^{5, 6 *} , MD

¹ Center for Pediatric Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

² School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

³ Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁴ College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁵ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁶ Cancer Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

*all authors contributed equally