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title = "Modeling Diagnostic Label Correlation for Automatic {ICD} Coding",
author = "Tsai, Shang-Chi and
Huang, Chao-Wei and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.318",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.318",
pages = "4043--4052",
abstract = "Given the clinical notes written in electronic health records (EHRs), it is challenging to predict the diagnostic codes which is formulated as a multi-label classification task. The large set of labels, the hierarchical dependency, and the imbalanced data make this prediction task extremely hard. Most existing work built a binary prediction for each label independently, ignoring the dependencies between labels. To address this problem, we propose a two-stage framework to improve automatic ICD coding by capturing the label correlation. Specifically, we train a label set distribution estimator to rescore the probability of each label set candidate generated by a base predictor. This paper is the first attempt at learning the label set distribution as a reranking module for ICD coding. In the experiments, our proposed framework is able to improve upon best-performing predictors for medical code prediction on the benchmark MIMIC datasets.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Modeling Diagnostic Label Correlation for Automatic ICD Coding](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.318) (Tsai et al., NAACL 2021)
ACL
- Shang-Chi Tsai, Chao-Wei Huang, and Yun-Nung Chen. 2021. Modeling Diagnostic Label Correlation for Automatic ICD Coding. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 4043–4052, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.