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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2019

Recent advances in Swedish and Spanish medical entity recognition in clinical texts using deep neural approaches.

Rebecka Weegar, Alicia Pérez, Arantza Casillas, Maite Oronoz

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Rebecka WeegarDepartment of Computer and Systems Sciences, DSV, Stockholm University, Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista, Sweden. rebeckaw@dsv.su.se.
Alicia PérezIXA (UPV/EHU), University of the Basque Country, M. Lardizabal 1, Donostia, 20080, Spain.
Arantza CasillasIXA (UPV/EHU), University of the Basque Country, M. Lardizabal 1, Donostia, 20080, Spain.
Maite OronozIXA (UPV/EHU), University of the Basque Country, M. Lardizabal 1, Donostia, 20080, Spain.

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backgroundText mining and natural language processing of clinical text, such as notes from electronic health records, requires specific consideration of the specialized characteristics of these texts. Deep learning methods could potentially mitigate domain specific challenges such as limited access to in-domain tools and data sets.

methodsA bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory network is applied to clinical notes in Spanish and Swedish for the task of medical named entity recognition. Several types of embeddings, both generated from in-domain and out-of-domain text corpora, and a number of generation and combination strategies for embeddings have been evaluated in order to investigate different input representations and the influence of domain on the final results.

resultsFor Spanish, a micro averaged F1-score of 75.25 was obtained and for Swedish, the corresponding score was 76.04. The best results for both languages were achieved using embeddings generated from in-domain corpora extracted from electronic health records, but embeddings generated from related domains were also found to be beneficial.

conclusionsA recurrent neural network with in-domain embeddings improved the medical named entity recognition compared to shallow learning methods, showing this combination to be suitable for entity recognition in clinical text for both languages.

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Deep LearningLanguageNatural Language ProcessingData MiningElectronic Health RecordsHumansNeural Networks, ComputerSwedenClinical text miningMedical named entity recognitionRecurrent neural networkUnstructured electronic health records

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