Year: 2017
Type: preprint
Abstract: In the context of the Electronic Health Record, automated diagnosis coding of patient notes is a useful task, but a challenging one due to the large number of codes and the length of patient notes. We investigate four models for assigning multiple ICD codes to discharge summaries taken from both MIMIC II and III. We present Hierarchical Attention-GRU (HA-GRU), a hierarchical approach to tag a document by identifying the sentences relevant for each label. HA-GRU achieves state-of-the art results. Furthermore, the learned sentence-level attention layer highlights the model decision process, allows easier error analysis, and suggests future directions for improvement.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Baumel, Tal, Nassour-Kassis, Jumana, Cohen, Raphael, Elhadad, Michael, Elhadad, No`emie
Institutions: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2757643185