A hybrid Neural Network Model for Joint Prediction of Presence and Period Assertions of Medical Events in Clinical Notes
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Quantitative Health SciencesDocument Type
Conference PaperPublication Date
2018-04-16Keywords
clinical text miningdata mining
neural networks
electronic health records
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Databases and Information Systems
Health Information Technology
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In this paper, we propose a novel neural network architecture for clinical text mining. We formulate this hybrid neural network model (HNN), composed of recurrent neural network and deep residual network, to jointly predict the presence and period assertion values associated with medical events in clinical texts. We evaluate the effectiveness of our model on a corpus of expert-annotated longitudinal Electronic Health Records (EHR) notes from Cancer patients. Our experiments show that HNN improves the joint assertion classification accuracy as compared to conventional baselines.Source
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Apr 16;2017:1149-1158. eCollection 2017.