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Using a gradient boosted model for case ascertainment from free-text veterinary records.

Uttara Kennedy¹, Mandy Paterson¹, Nicholas Clark²

¹UQ School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia; RSPCA Queensland, Animal Care Campus, 139 Wacol Station Road, Wacol, Queensland 4076, Australia.

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

|January 13, 2023

Summary

This study developed a machine learning tool to accurately identify feline upper respiratory tract infections in veterinary records. The natural language processing model achieved high accuracy, improving disease surveillance for cats.

Keywords:

Bordetella bronchiseptica Calici virus Case ascertainment Chlamydophila felis Feline Gradient boosted model Herpes virus Machine learning Mycoplasma felis Shelter

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Area of Science:

Veterinary Medicine
Computational Biology
Data Science

Background:

Accurate case ascertainment for feline upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) is challenging due to unstructured veterinary clinical notes.
Electronic health records offer a valuable data source but require advanced processing for epidemiological studies.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a machine learning model using natural language processing (NLP) for accurate case recognition of feline URTIs.
To apply the model to a large dataset of retrospective electronic veterinary records for prevalence estimation.

Main Methods:

Data cleaning and NLP techniques were applied to eight years of free-text veterinary records.
A gradient boosted model (GBM) was trained using n-grams from clinical notes to predict URTI diagnoses.
Model performance was validated using an out-of-sample dataset, achieving 0.95 accuracy and 0.96 F1 score.

Main Results:

The NLP-driven GBM model accurately identified feline URTIs with high precision and recall.
Key predictors for URTI included terms like "doxycycline", "flu", "sneezing", "doxybrom", and "ocular".
The model predicted a prevalence of 23.59% for feline URTIs in the analyzed dataset.

Conclusions:

NLP and machine learning provide a robust method for automated case ascertainment in veterinary medicine.
This tool enhances the ability to conduct epidemiological studies on feline URTIs and can be adapted for other diseases.
Improved case identification facilitates better disease surveillance and management in animal health.