PIFIR: PET-CT Invasive Fungal Infection Reports

Surveillance of invasive fungal infection (IFI) in clinical settings is a
laborious process requiring a detailed review of patient medical history. One
of the key sources of clinical information is imaging reports: radiologist-
produced free-text reports summarising findings and observations from a scan.
Positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET-CT) is a
medical imaging modality particularly useful in ruling out IFIs and evaluating
the response to anti-fungal therapy. The data was generated to facilitate the
development of an automated tool for the detection of IFI. The PET-CT Invasive
Fungal Infection Reports (PIFIR) corpus contains 201 de-identified reports
annotated by radiologists for terminology suggestive of the presence of IFI.
These include IFI-related concepts and certainty cues, as well as relations
between them. We release the annotation schema and the original reports along
with the corresponding annotation files. We anticipate the PIFIR corpus to be
useful in the development and validation of named entity recognition and
relation extraction methods with a focus on clinical data. Such methods can be
instrumental in processing other types of clinical documentation (clinical
notes, nursing notes) with various downstream tasks in mind.