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Using an ensemble system to improve concept extraction from clinical records.

Ning Kang¹, Zubair Afzal, Bharat Singh

¹Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. n.kang@erasmusmc.nl

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Summary

Combining multiple medical concept recognition systems using a voting method significantly improved performance. This ensemble approach enhances precision and recall for extracting information from clinical records.

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Area of Science:

Natural Language Processing
Clinical Informatics
Biomedical Data Science

Background:

Accurate recognition of medical concepts in clinical records is crucial for information extraction.
Existing dictionary-based and statistical systems have limitations in concept recognition performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To improve the performance of medical concept recognition by combining results from multiple systems.
To develop an ensemble system that enhances precision and recall for annotating clinical records.

Main Methods:

Selected two dictionary-based and five statistical-based concept recognition systems.
Utilized manually annotated clinical records from the 2010 i2b2/VA challenge for training and testing.
Combined individual system results using a simple voting scheme with varying thresholds.

Main Results:

The ensemble system achieved a best F-score of 82.2% (81.2% recall, 83.3% precision) on the test set.
The combined system outperformed all individual systems, with an F-score 4.6% higher than the best single system.
Adjusting the voting threshold allowed for balancing precision and recall.

Conclusions:

Ensemble methods provide a straightforward and effective approach to improve medical concept recognition.
The developed ensemble system offers flexibility in balancing precision and recall and is readily extendable.