Abstract
Diagnostic coding is a process by which written, verbal and other patient-case related documentation are used for enabling disease prediction, accurate documentation, and insurance settlements. It is a prevalently manual process even in countries that have successfully adopted Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The problem is exacerbated in developing countries where widespread adoption of EHR systems is still not at par with Western counterparts. EHRs contain a wealth of patient information embedded in numerical, text, and image formats. A disease prediction model that exploits all this information, enabling accurate and faster diagnosis would be quite beneficial. We address this challenging task by proposing mixed ensemble models consisting of boosting and deep learning architectures for the task of diagnostic code group prediction. The models are trained on a dataset created by integrating features from structured (lab test reports) as well as unstructured (clinical text) data. We analyze the proposed model’s performance on MIMIC-III, an open dataset of clinical data using standard multi-label metrics. Empirical evaluations underscored the significant performance of our approach for this task, compared to state-of-the-art works which rely on a single data source. Our novelty lies in effectively integrating relevant information from both data sources thereby ensuring larger ICD-9 code coverage, handling the inherent class imbalance, and adopting a novel approach to form the ensemble models.
A. Prabhakar and S. Srinivasan—Equal contribution.
G. S. Krishnan—Author contributed to this work as part of Ph.D. research in HALE Lab, NITK.
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Prabhakar, A., Srinivasan, S., Krishnan, G.S., Kamath, S.S. (2021). Diagnostic Code Group Prediction by Integrating Structured and Unstructured Clinical Data. In: Srirama, S.N., Lin, J.CW., Bhatnagar, R., Agarwal, S., Reddy, P.K. (eds) Big Data Analytics. BDA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13147. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93620-4_15
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