Classifying medical notes into standard disease codes using Machine Learning

2018/02/01 by Amitabha Karmakar, Karmakar, Amitabha · 1 citation
Computer Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Text and Document Classification Technologies #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Topic Modeling

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.00382

Abstract

We investigate the automatic classification of patient discharge notes into standard disease labels. We find that Convolutional Neural Networks with Attention outperform previous algorithms used in this task, and suggest further areas for improvement.

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