The Apache™ clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES™) focuses on extracting knowledge from clinical text through Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.
cTAKES is engineered in a modular fashion and employs leading-edge rule-based and machine learning methods.
cTAKES has standard features for biomedical text processing software, including the ability to extract concepts such as symptoms, procedures, diagnoses, medications and anatomy with attributes and standard codes.