Automated medical coding on MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV: a critical review and replicability study

J Edin, A Junge, JD Havtorn, L Borgholt… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Medical coding is the task of assigning medical codes to clinical free-text documentation.
Healthcare professionals manually assign such codes to track patient diagnoses and …

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 …

Revisiting transformer-based models for long document classification

X Dai, I Chalkidis, S Darkner, D Elliott - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.06683, 2022 - arxiv.org
The recent literature in text classification is biased towards short text sequences (eg,
sentences or paragraphs). In real-world applications, multi-page multi-paragraph documents …

Code synonyms do matter: Multiple synonyms matching network for automatic ICD coding

Z Yuan, C Tan, S Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.01515, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automatic ICD coding is defined as assigning disease codes to electronic medical records
(EMRs). Existing methods usually apply label attention with code representations to match …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge injected prompt based fine-tuning for multi-label few-shot icd coding

Z Yang, S Wang, BPS Rawat, A Mitra… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Automatic International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding aims to assign
multiple ICD codes to a medical note with average length of 3,000+ tokens. This task is …

[HTML][HTML] Does the magic of BERT apply to medical code assignment? A quantitative study

S Ji, M Hölttä, P Marttinen - Computers in biology and medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Unsupervised pretraining is an integral part of many natural language processing systems,
and transfer learning with language models has achieved remarkable results in downstream …

Effective convolutional attention network for multi-label clinical document classification

Y Liu, H Cheng, R Klopfer, MR Gormley… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Multi-label document classification (MLDC) problems can be challenging, especially for long
documents with a large label set and a long-tail distribution over labels. In this paper, we …

PLM-ICD: Automatic ICD coding with pretrained language models

CW Huang, SC Tsai, YN Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05289, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automatically classifying electronic health records (EHRs) into diagnostic codes has been
challenging to the NLP community. State-of-the-art methods treated this problem as a …

[HTML][HTML] Explainable automated coding of clinical notes using hierarchical label-wise attention networks and label embedding initialisation

H Dong, V Suárez-Paniagua, W Whiteley… - Journal of biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Diagnostic or procedural coding of clinical notes aims to derive a coded
summary of disease-related information about patients. Such coding is usually done …

Automatic ICD coding via interactive shared representation networks with self-distillation mechanism

T Zhou, P Cao, Y Chen, K Liu, J Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
The ICD coding task aims at assigning codes of the International Classification of Diseases
in clinical notes. Since manual coding is very laborious and prone to errors, many methods …