Marcelo Montero

This study developed and deployed a transformer-based natural language processing pipeline to identify incidental thyroid findings in radiology reports from 115,683 adults without prior thyroid disease across Mayo Clinic sites from July 1, 2017, to September 30, 2023, finding that 7.8% had such findings (92.9% nodular) and that these findings were associated with higher odds of downstream thyroid nodule diagnosis, biopsy, thyroidectomy, and thyroid cancer diagnosis, with most cancers being papillary.

This study developed and deployed a transformer-based natural language processing pipeline to identify incidental thyroid findings in radiology reports from 115,683 adults without prior thyroid disease across Mayo Clinic sites from July 1, 2017, to September 30, 2023, finding that 7.8% had such findings (92.9% nodular) and that these findings were associated with higher odds of downstream thyroid nodule diagnosis, biopsy, thyroidectomy, and thyroid cancer diagnosis, with most cancers being papillary.