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This paper discusses the knowledge integration of clinical information extracted from distributed medical ontology in order to ameliorate a machine learning-based multi-label coding assignment system. The proposed approach is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Phanu Waraporn , Phayung Meesad , Gareth Clayton

Accurate diagnostic coding of medical notes is crucial for enhancing patient care, medical research, and error-free billing in healthcare organizations. Manual coding is a time-consuming task for providers, and diagnostic codes often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Prajwal Kailas , Max Homilius , Rahul C. Deo , Calum A. MacRae

Extreme Multi-label classification (XML) is an important yet challenging machine learning task, that assigns to each instance its most relevant candidate labels from an extremely large label collection, where the numbers of labels, features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Bingyu Wang , Li Chen , Wei Sun , Kechen Qin , Kefeng Li , Hui Zhou

Clinical Text Notes (CTNs) contain physicians' reasoning process, written in an unstructured free text format, as they examine and interview patients. In recent years, several studies have been published that provide evidence for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Hlynur D. Hlynsson , Steindór Ellertsson , Jón F. Daðason , Emil L. Sigurdsson , Hrafn Loftsson

Many practical applications of AI in medicine consist of semi-supervised discovery: The investigator aims to identify features of interest at a resolution more fine-grained than that of the available human labels. This is often the scenario…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Allen Schmaltz , Andrew Beam

The text of clinical notes can be a valuable source of patient information and clinical assessments. Historically, the primary approach for exploiting clinical notes has been information extraction: linking spans of text to concepts in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Sarah Wiegreffe , Edward Choi , Sherry Yan , Jimeng Sun , Jacob Eisenstein

Large language models (LLMs) excel at a range of tasks through in-context learning (ICL), where only a few task examples guide their predictions. However, prior research highlights that LLMs often overlook input-label mapping information in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Keqin Peng , Liang Ding , Yuanxin Ouyang , Meng Fang , Yancheng Yuan , Dacheng Tao

Automated ICD-10 coding from clinical discharge summaries requires models that are both accurate on long-tailed multi-label classification tasks and interpretable to clinicians. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offer a principled framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mohammed Sameer Syed , Xuan Lu

Clinical trials are central to medical progress because they help improve understanding of human health and the healthcare system. They play a key role in discovering new ways to detect, prevent, or treat diseases, and it is essential that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Surya Tejaswi Yerramsetty , Almas Fathimah

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is the task of assigning labels to a text within a structured space organized as a hierarchy. Recent works treat HTC as a conventional multilabel classification problem, therefore evaluating it as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Roman Plaud , Matthieu Labeau , Antoine Saillenfest , Thomas Bonald

Automated machine learning (AutoML) aims to select and configure machine learning algorithms and combine them into machine learning pipelines tailored to a dataset at hand. For supervised learning tasks, most notably binary and multinomial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Marcel Wever

Learning to represent free text is a core task in many clinical machine learning (ML) applications, as clinical text contains observations and plans not otherwise available for inference. State-of-the-art methods use large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Lecheng Kong , Christopher King , Bradley Fritz , Yixin Chen

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) is the task of assigning multiple labels to a given text, and has a wide range of application domains. Most existing approaches require an enormous amount of annotated data to learn a classifier and/or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Muberra Ozmen , Joseph Cotnareanu , Mark Coates

While the ICD code assignment problem has been widely studied, most works have focused on post-discharge document classification. Models for early forecasting of this information could be used for identifying health risks, suggesting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Cindy Shih-Ting Huang , Clarence Boon Liang Ng , Marek Rei

This study aims to explore the implementation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) techniques to automate the coding of medical letters with visualised explainability and light-weighted local computer settings.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jamie Glen , Lifeng Han , Paul Rayson , Goran Nenadic

This paper aims to provide an approach for automatic coding of physician-patient communication transcripts to improve patient-centered communication (PCC). PCC is a central part of high-quality health care. To improve PCC, dialogues between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Gilchan Park , Julia Taylor Rayz , Cleveland G. Shields

A large volume of accident reports is recorded in the aviation domain, which greatly values improving aviation safety. To better use those reports, we need to understand the most important events or impact factors according to the accident…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xinyu Zhao , Hao Yan , Yongming Liu

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) tasks in the medical domain often face the long-tail label distribution problem. Prior works have explored hierarchical label structures to find relevant information for few-shot classes, but mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xueren Ge , Satpathy Abhishek , Ronald Dean Williams , John A. Stankovic , Homa Alemzadeh

Medical coding converts free-text clinical notes into standardized diagnostic and procedural codes, which are essential for billing, hospital operations, and medical research. Unlike ordinary text classification, it requires multi-step…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiyang Zheng , Islam Nassar , Thanh Vu , Xu Zhong , Yang Lin , Tongliang Liu , Long Duong , Yuan-Fang Li

The medical domain is often subject to information overload. The digitization of healthcare, constant updates to online medical repositories, and increasing availability of biomedical datasets make it challenging to effectively analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ozan Ozyegen , Devika Kabe , Mucahit Cevik