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

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 manually in hospitals but could potentially be automated to improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical coding. Recent studies on...

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Published in:Journal of Biomedical Informatics Vol. 116
Main Authors: Dong, Hang, Suárez-Paniagua, Víctor, Whiteley, William, Wu, Honghan
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Academic Press Inc. Apr2021
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