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ArticleScientific reports2024

Optimizing classification of diseases through language model analysis of symptoms.

Esraa Hassan, Tarek Abd El-Hafeez, Mahmoud Y Shams

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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Esraa HassanFaculty of Artificial Intelligence, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516, Egypt. esraa.hassan@ai.Kfs.edu.eg.
Tarek Abd El-HafeezDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt. tarek@mu.edu.eg.
Mahmoud Y ShamsFaculty of Artificial Intelligence, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516, Egypt. mahmoud.yasin@ai.kfs.edu.eg.

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Abstract

This paper investigated the use of language models and deep learning techniques for automating disease prediction from symptoms. Specifically, we explored the use of two Medical Concept Normalization-Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (MCN-BERT) models and a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) model, each optimized with a different hyperparameter optimization method, to predict diseases from symptom descriptions. In this paper, we utilized two distinct dataset called Dataset-1, and Dataset-2. Dataset-1 consists of 1,200 data points, with each point representing a unique combination of disease labels and symptom descriptions. While, Dataset-2 is designed to identify Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) from Twitter data, comprising 23,516 rows categorized as ADR (1) or Non-ADR (0) tweets. The results indicate that the MCN-BERT model optimized with AdamP achieved 99.58% accuracy for Dataset-1 and 96.15% accuracy for Dataset-2. The MCN-BERT model optimized with AdamW performed well with 98.33% accuracy for Dataset-1 and 95.15% for Dataset-2, while the BiLSTM model optimized with Hyperopt achieved 97.08% accuracy for Dataset-1 and 94.15% for Dataset-2. Our findings suggest that language models and deep learning techniques have promise for supporting earlier detection and more prompt treatment of diseases, as well as expanding remote diagnostic capabilities. The MCN-BERT and BiLSTM models demonstrated robust performance in accurately predicting diseases from symptoms, indicating the potential for further related research.

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