Learning Effective Representations from Clinical Notes

05/19/2017

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by   Sebastien Dubois, et al.

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Clinical notes are a rich source of information about patient state. However, using them effectively presents many challenges. In this work we present two methods for summarizing clinical notes into patient-level representations. The resulting representations are evaluated on a range of prediction tasks and cohort sizes. The new representations offer significant predictive performance gains over the common baselines of Bag of Words and topic model representations across all tested tasks and cohort sizes.