Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes for Cancer Research and Patient Care Prior to Widespread Adoption of Generative AI: Scoping Review

Alfred B Kayira   ^{1 *} , MSc, MPH, MRES ;   Hadeel R A Elyazori   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Kevin Lybarger   ² , PhD ;   Fiona M Walter   ¹ , MA, MD ;   Claude Chelala   ³ , PhD ;   Garth Funston   ¹ , MB BChir, PhD

¹ Centre for Cancer Screening, Prevention, and Early Diagnosis, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

² Department of Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering & Computing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States

³ Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally