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ArticleScientific reports2024

ICDXML: enhancing ICD coding with probabilistic label trees and dynamic semantic representations.

Zeqiang Wang, Yuqi Wang, Haiyang Zhang, Wei Wang, Jun Qi, Jianjun Chen, Nishanth Sastry, Jon Johnson, Suparna De

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Zeqiang Wang *Department of Computing, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 21500, China.
Yuqi Wang *Department of Computing, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 21500, China.
Haiyang ZhangDepartment of Computing, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 21500, China.
Wei WangDepartment of Computing, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 21500, China.
Jun QiDepartment of Computing, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 21500, China.
Jianjun ChenDepartment of Computing, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 21500, China.
Nishanth SastrySchool of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK.
Jon JohnsonUCL Social Research Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Suparna DeSchool of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK. s.de@surrey.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-7439-6077

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Basic Research Program of Jiangsu Province BK20221260Jiangsu Science and Technology Department BK20221260Jiangsu Science and Technology Department EP/W032473/1RCUK | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ES/Z502935/1RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/W032473/1
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Abstract

Accurately assigning standardized diagnosis and procedure codes from clinical text is crucial for healthcare applications. However, this remains challenging due to the complexity of medical language. This paper proposes a novel model that incorporates extreme multi-label classification tasks to enhance International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding. The model utilizes deformable convolutional neural networks to fuse representations from hidden layer outputs of pre-trained language models and external medical knowledge embeddings fused using a multimodal approach to provide rich semantic encodings for each code. A probabilistic label tree is constructed based on the hierarchical structure existing in ICD labels to incorporate ontological relationships between ICD codes and enable structured output prediction. Experiments on medical code prediction on the MIMIC-III database demonstrate competitive performance, highlighting the benefits of this technique for robust clinical code assignment.

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International Classification of DiseasesNeural Networks, ComputerSemanticsAlgorithmsDatabases, FactualHumansNatural Language ProcessingExtreme multi-label classificationFew-shot learningICD codingMedical knowledge representationNatural language processing

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PMID39112791
PMCPMC11306547

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