How PARSE Works

Perl Automation for Radiopharmaceutical Selection & Extraction (PARSE) version 1.0 was developed and validated using Perl version 5.10.0, and run from the command terminal.  Nuclear medicine reports were aggregated in a comma-separated file (ParseIn.csv), and a regular expression string match was performed.  A new comma-separated file contains the output (ParseOut.csv) with a list of cases, quantitative amount of radioactivity administered, unit of radioactivity, and the radiopharmaceutical. 

How to run PARSE from the command terminal

  1. Install Perl (version 5.10.0 or higher recommended). 
  2. Download PARSE to the working directory of your choice.
  3. Place the nuclear medicine reports to be processed in a comma-separated file within the working directory, and name it “ParseIn.csv”
  4. For Windows®, run the command: perl PARSE_v1.pl  For Mac, run the command: ./PARSE_v1.pl

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