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| Title | Divide and Conquer: An Extreme Multi-Label Classification Approach for Coding Diseases and Procedures in Spanish |
| Authors | Jose Barros, Matías Rojas, Jocelyn Dunstan, Andrés Abeliuk |
| Publication date | 2022 |
| Abstract | Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical documents into structured codes following a standard ontology. Since these terminologies are composed of hundreds of codes, this problem can be considered an Extreme Multi-label Classification task. This paper proposes a novel neural network-based architecture for clinical coding. First, we take full advantage of the hierarchical nature of ontologies to create clusters based on semantic relations. Then, we use a Matcher module to assign the probability of documents belonging to each cluster. Finally, the Ranker calculates the probability of each code considering only the documents in the cluster. This division allows a fine-grained differentiation within the cluster, which cannot be addressed using a single classifier. In addition, since most of the previous work has focused on solving this task in English, we conducted our experiments on three clinical coding corpora in Spanish. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our model, achieving state-of-the-art results on two of the three datasets. Specifically, we outperformed previous models on two subtasks of the CodiEsp shared task: CodiEsp-D (diseases) and CodiEsp-P (procedures). Automatic coding can profoundly impact healthcare by structuring critical information written in free text in electronic health records. |
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| Pages | 138-147 |
| Conference name | International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistic |
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