Semantic annotation of medical documents in CDA context

The goal of this work is to recover semantic and structural information from medical documents in electronic format. Despite the progressive diffusion of Electronic Health Record systems, a lot of medical information, also for legacy reasons, is available to patients and physicians in image-only or textual format. The difficulties of obtaining such information when needed result in high costs for health providers. In this work we develop the concept of a system designed to convert legacy medical documents into a standard and interoperable format compliant with the Clinical Document Architecture model by the means of semantic annotation.