Deep generative learning for automated EHR diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Computer-aided medical decision-making (CAMDM) is the method to utilize massive EMR data as both empirical and evidence support for the decision procedure of healthcare activities. Well-developed information infrastructure, such as hospital information systems and disease surveillance systems, provides abundant data for CAMDM. However, the complexity of EMR data with abstract medical knowledge makes the conventional model incompetent for the analysis. Thus a deep belief networks (DBN) based model is proposed to simulate the information analysis and decision-making procedure in medical practice. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a deep learning architecture as an effective solution for CAMDM.

Authors

  • Zhaohui Liang
    Computational Health Research Branch, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Jun Liu
    Department of Radiology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
  • Aihua Ou
    Department of Big Medical Data, Health Construction Administration Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
  • Honglai Zhang
    School of Medical Information Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine 510006, China. Electronic address: zhanghl@gzucm.edu.cn.
  • Ziping Li
    Guangdong Prov Acad Chinese Med Sci, Guangzhou Univ Chinese Med 510120, China. Electronic address: lzip_008@163.com.
  • Jimmy Xiangji Huang
    School of Information Technology, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J1P3, Canada. jhuang@yorku.ca.