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T Botsis, R Ball¹

¹Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Rockville, MD.

Applied Clinical Informatics

|January 24, 2014

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Automating medical condition Case Definitions (CDefs) using text mining improves surveillance efficiency. Generated CDefs showed high accuracy in classifying H1N1 reports for anaphylaxis.

Keywords:

Case definition anaphylaxis literature-based reasoning safety surveillance semantic networks similarity

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Area of Science:

Medical Informatics
Computational Epidemiology
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Establishing Case Definitions (CDefs) is crucial for epidemiological and clinical activities.
Current CDef application involves manual steps, leading to inefficiencies in surveillance and research.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the need for automating the representation of medical condition CDefs.
To propose an approach for automated CDef generation and application.

Main Methods:

Translated an existing anaphylaxis CDef using NLM MetaMap for synonym identification.
Generated a new CDef from PubMed abstracts using text mining and semantic network analysis.
Classified 6034 H1N1 reports for anaphylaxis using generated and translated CDefs with similarity approaches.

Main Results:

Overall classification performance was similar across CDef generation methods.
The generated CDef with vector space model and cosine similarity achieved the highest accuracy (0.825 ± 0.003).
The semi-automated approach with vector space model and cosine similarity yielded the highest recall (0.809 ± 0.042), though precision was low across all methods.

Conclusions:

Automating the representation of CDefs is complex but offers significant efficiency gains.
Automated CDefs can enhance safety and clinical surveillance effectiveness.