Label-dependent and event-guided interpretable disease risk prediction using EHRs

Shuai NIU, Yunya SONG, Qing YIN, Yi-Ke GUO, Xian YANG*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain patients’ heterogeneous data that are collected from medical providers involved in the patient’s care, including medical notes, clinical events, laboratory test results, symptoms, and diagnoses. In the field of modern healthcare, predicting whether patients would experience any risks based on their EHRs has emerged as a promising research area, in which artificial intelligence (AI) plays a key role. To make AI models practically applicable, it is required that the prediction results should be both accurate and interpretable. To achieve this goal, this paper proposed a label-dependent and event-guided risk prediction model (LERP) to predict the presence of multiple disease risks by mainly extracting information from unstructured medical notes. Our model is featured in the following aspects. First, we adopt a label-dependent mechanism that gives greater attention to words from medical notes that are semantically similar to the names of risk labels. Secondly, as the clinical events (e.g., treatments and drugs) can also indicate the health status of patients, our model utilizes the information from events and uses them to generate an event-guided representation of medical notes. Thirdly, both label-dependent and event-guided representations are integrated to make a robust prediction, in which the interpretability is enabled by the attention weights over words from medical notes. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method, we apply it to the MIMIC-III dataset, which contains real-world EHRs collected from hospitals. Our method is evaluated in both quantitative and qualitative ways.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
PublisherIEEE
Pages1473-1476
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781665401265
ISBN (Print)9781665429825
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021
EventIEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine - Houston, United States
Duration: 9 Dec 202112 Dec 2021

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period9/12/2112/12/21

User-Defined Keywords

  • Label-dependent prediction
  • Event-guided prediction
  • Cross-attention mechanism
  • Disease risk prediction

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