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ArticleApplied network science2019

From free text to clusters of content in health records: an unsupervised graph partitioning approach.

M Tarik Altuncu, Erik Mayer, Sophia N Yaliraki, Mauricio Barahona

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Article in Applied network science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M Tarik Altuncu1Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, South Kensington campus, London, SW7 2AZ UK.
Erik Mayer3Centre for Health Policy, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, St Mary's campus, London, W2 1NY UK.
Sophia N Yaliraki2Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington campus, London, SW7 2AZ UK.
Mauricio Barahona1Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, South Kensington campus, London, SW7 2AZ UK.
Imperial College London · GBEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electronic healthcare records contain large volumes of unstructured data in different forms. Free text constitutes a large portion of such data, yet this source of richly detailed information often remains under-used in practice because of a lack of suitable methodologies to extract interpretable content in a timely manner. Here we apply network-theoretical tools to the analysis of free text in Hospital Patient Incident reports in the English National Health Service, to find clusters of reports in an unsupervised manner and at different levels of resolution based directly on the free text descriptions contained within them. To do so, we combine recently developed deep neural network text-embedding methodologies based on paragraph vectors with multi-scale Markov Stability community detection applied to a similarity graph of documents obtained from sparsified text vector similarities. We showcase the approach with the analysis of incident reports submitted in Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. The multiscale community structure reveals levels of meaning with different resolution in the topics of the dataset, as shown by relevant descriptive terms extracted from the groups of records, as well as by comparing

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Graph theoryMarkov Stability partition algorithmText embeddingTopic clusteringUnsupervised multi-resolution clustering

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PMID30906850
PMCPMC6400329
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