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John Strauss1, Arturo Martinez Peguero, Graeme Hirst

  • 1Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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Area of Science:

  • * Computational Linguistics
  • * Health Informatics
  • * Machine Learning in Healthcare

Background:

  • * The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) sought automated methods for clinical form analysis during a clinical information system implementation.
  • * Manual analysis of numerous clinical forms is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
  • * Developing an automated process is crucial for efficient data management in mental health settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • * To investigate the application of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) techniques for automated analysis of clinical forms.
  • * To evaluate the performance of different ML algorithms in processing and classifying information from 266 distinct clinical documents.
  • * To assess the feasibility of using computational methods for clinical form analysis in mental health.

Main Methods:

  • * A dataset of 266 separate clinical forms was processed using NLP and ML.
  • * Clinical documents were converted into feature vectors for algorithmic analysis.
  • * Four ML algorithms were employed: cluster analysis, k-nearest neighbors (kNN), decision trees, and support vector machines (SVM), with parameter optimization.

Main Results:

  • * Support Vector Machines (SVM) demonstrated the highest performance among the tested algorithms, achieving a precision of 64.6%.
  • * Cluster analysis, kNN, and decision trees were also evaluated for their effectiveness in form analysis.
  • * Despite optimization, none of the evaluated methods achieved sufficient accuracy for immediate practical application in mental health settings.

Conclusions:

  • * The study represents a novel application of NLP and ML for analyzing clinical forms in the mental health domain.
  • * While current methods did not meet practical accuracy thresholds, the approach shows potential for future development.
  • * Further research and algorithm refinement are needed to enhance the accuracy and utility of automated clinical form analysis in mental health care.