Background: The medical coding of radiology reports is essential for a good quality of care and correct billing, but at the same time a complex and error-prone task.
Objective: To assess the performance of natural language processing (NLP) for ICD-10 coding of German radiology reports using fine tuning of suitable language models.
Material And Methods: This retrospective study included all magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiology reports acquired at our institution between 2010 and 2020.