Automated clinical coding: what, why, and where we are?

H Dong, M Falis, W Whiteley, B Alex, J Matterson… - NPJ digital …, 2022 - nature.com
Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical information in a patient's health records
into structured codes so that they can be used for statistical analysis. This is a cognitive and …

A unified review of deep learning for automated medical coding

S Ji, X Li, W Sun, H Dong, A Taalas, Y Zhang… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Automated medical coding, an essential task for healthcare operation and delivery, makes
unstructured data manageable by predicting medical codes from clinical documents. Recent …

BERT-XML: Large scale automated ICD coding using BERT pretraining

Z Zhang, J Liu, N Razavian - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03685, 2020 - arxiv.org
Clinical interactions are initially recorded and documented in free text medical notes. ICD
coding is the task of classifying and coding all diagnoses, symptoms and procedures …

DECAB-LSTM: Deep Contextualized Attentional Bidirectional LSTM for cancer hallmark classification

L Jiang, X Sun, F Mercaldo, A Santone - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
The great number of online scientific publications on cancer research makes large scale
data mining possible. The hallmarks or characteristics of cancer can be used to distinguish …

Characterizing the value of information in medical notes

CC Hsu, S Karnwal, S Mullainathan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Machine learning models depend on the quality of input data. As electronic health records
are widely adopted, the amount of data in health care is growing, along with complaints …

Model distillation for faithful explanations of medical code predictions

Z Wood-Doughty, I Cachola… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Machine learning models that offer excellent predictive performance often lack the
interpretability necessary to support integrated human machine decision-making. In clinical …

Representation learning for electronic health records

WH Weng, P Szolovits - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09248, 2019 - arxiv.org
Information in electronic health records (EHR), such as clinical narratives, examination
reports, lab measurements, demographics, and other patient encounter entries, can be …

Term extraction from medical documents using word embeddings

M Bay, D Bruneß, M Herold, C Schulze… - 2020 6th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a new method for the extraction of discipline-specific terms from
medical documents. Due to the small text corpora and the specific nature of medical …

Aligning AI Research with the Needs of Clinical Coding Workflows: Eight Recommendations Based on US Data Analysis and Critical Review

Y Gan, M Rybinski, B Hachey… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Clinical coding is crucial for healthcare billing and data analysis. Manual clinical coding is
labour-intensive and error-prone, which has motivated research towards full automation of …

Automatic Coding at Scale: Design and Deployment of a Nationwide System for Normalizing Referrals in the Chilean Public Healthcare System

F Villena, M Rojas, F Arias, J Pacheco, P Vera… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The disease coding task involves assigning a unique identifier from a controlled vocabulary
to each disease mentioned in a clinical document. This task is relevant since it allows …