Clinical text classification with rule-based features and knowledge-guided convolutional neural networks.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Clinical text classification is an fundamental problem in medical natural language processing. Existing studies have cocnventionally focused on rules or knowledge sources-based feature engineering, but only a limited number of studies have exploited effective representation learning capability of deep learning methods.

Authors

  • Liang Yao
    Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
  • Chengsheng Mao
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
  • Yuan Luo
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.