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A hybrid method based on semi-supervised learning for relation extraction in Chinese EMRs.

Chunming Yang^1,2, Dan Xiao³, Yuanyuan Luo³

¹School of Computer Science and Technology, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, Sichuan, China. yangchunming@swust.edu.cn.

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|June 27, 2022

Summary

This study introduces a semi-supervised learning method to extract medical entity relations from Chinese electronic medical records (EMRs). The approach effectively addresses data scarcity and complex relations, achieving a high F1-score.

Keywords:

Bootstrapping Medical knowledge graphs Relation extraction Residual network Semi-supervised learning

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Area of Science:

Natural Language Processing
Medical Informatics
Machine Learning

Background:

Extracting medical entity relations from electronic medical records (EMRs) is crucial for building large-scale medical knowledge graphs.
Challenges include limited labeled data and complex semantic relations in Chinese EMRs.
A hybrid semi-supervised learning method is proposed for relation extraction from small-scale Chinese EMRs.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an effective method for extracting medical entity relations from Chinese EMRs.
To overcome the limitations of scarce labeled data and complex semantic relations.
To improve the accuracy of medical relation extraction.

Main Methods:

A hybrid approach combining residual networks and bidirectional gated recurrent units for feature extraction.
Integration of attention mechanisms to weigh extracted features for relation prediction.
Utilized a small annotated corpus and bootstrapping semi-supervised learning to expand datasets during training.

Main Results:

Developed a small corpus of Chinese EMRs for relation extraction.
The proposed method achieved a best F1-score of 89.78% on overall relation categories.
This represents a 13.07% improvement over the baseline Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model.

Conclusions:

The proposed hybrid semi-supervised learning method demonstrates strong performance in extracting medical entity relations from Chinese EMRs.
The approach effectively handles data scarcity and complex semantic relations.
This work contributes to the advancement of medical knowledge graph construction from EMR data.