ICD Coding from Clinical Text Using Multi-Filter Residual Convolutional Neural Network

Authors

  • Fei Li University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Hong Yu University of Massachusetts Lowell

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6331

Abstract

Automated ICD coding, which assigns the International Classification of Disease codes to patient visits, has attracted much research attention since it can save time and labor for billing. The previous state-of-the-art model utilized one convolutional layer to build document representations for predicting ICD codes. However, the lengths and grammar of text fragments, which are closely related to ICD coding, vary a lot in different documents. Therefore, a flat and fixed-length convolutional architecture may not be capable of learning good document representations. In this paper, we proposed a Multi-Filter Residual Convolutional Neural Network (MultiResCNN) for ICD coding. The innovations of our model are two-folds: it utilizes a multi-filter convolutional layer to capture various text patterns with different lengths and a residual convolutional layer to enlarge the receptive field. We evaluated the effectiveness of our model on the widely-used MIMIC dataset. On the full code set of MIMIC-III, our model outperformed the state-of-the-art model in 4 out of 6 evaluation metrics. On the top-50 code set of MIMIC-III and the full code set of MIMIC-II, our model outperformed all the existing and state-of-the-art models in all evaluation metrics. The code is available at https://github.com/foxlf823/Multi-Filter-Residual-Convolutional-Neural-Network.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Li, F., & Yu, H. (2020). ICD Coding from Clinical Text Using Multi-Filter Residual Convolutional Neural Network. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(05), 8180-8187. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6331

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AAAI Technical Track: Natural Language Processing