Medical Coding with Biomedical Transformer Ensembles and Zero/Few-shot Learning
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| author | Ziletti, Angelo Akbik, Alan Berns, Christoph Herold, Thomas Legler, Marion Viell, Martina |
| author_facet | Ziletti, Angelo Akbik, Alan Berns, Christoph Herold, Thomas Legler, Marion Viell, Martina |
| contents | Medical coding (MC) is an essential pre-requisite for reliable data retrieval and reporting. Given a free-text reported term (RT) such as "pain of right thigh to the knee", the task is to identify the matching lowest-level term (LLT) - in this case "unilateral leg pain" - from a very large and continuously growing repository of standardized medical terms. However, automating this task is challenging due to a large number of LLT codes (as of writing over 80,000), limited availability of training data for long tail/emerging classes, and the general high accuracy demands of the medical domain. With this paper, we introduce the MC task, discuss its challenges, and present a novel approach called xTARS that combines traditional BERT-based classification with a recent zero/few-shot learning approach (TARS). We present extensive experiments that show that our combined approach outperforms strong baselines, especially in the few-shot regime. The approach is developed and deployed at Bayer, live since November 2021. As we believe our approach potentially promising beyond MC, and to ensure reproducibility, we release the code to the research community. |
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| spellingShingle | Medical Coding with Biomedical Transformer Ensembles and Zero/Few-shot Learning Ziletti, Angelo Akbik, Alan Berns, Christoph Herold, Thomas Legler, Marion Viell, Martina Information Retrieval Computation and Language Machine Learning Medical coding (MC) is an essential pre-requisite for reliable data retrieval and reporting. Given a free-text reported term (RT) such as "pain of right thigh to the knee", the task is to identify the matching lowest-level term (LLT) - in this case "unilateral leg pain" - from a very large and continuously growing repository of standardized medical terms. However, automating this task is challenging due to a large number of LLT codes (as of writing over 80,000), limited availability of training data for long tail/emerging classes, and the general high accuracy demands of the medical domain. With this paper, we introduce the MC task, discuss its challenges, and present a novel approach called xTARS that combines traditional BERT-based classification with a recent zero/few-shot learning approach (TARS). We present extensive experiments that show that our combined approach outperforms strong baselines, especially in the few-shot regime. The approach is developed and deployed at Bayer, live since November 2021. As we believe our approach potentially promising beyond MC, and to ensure reproducibility, we release the code to the research community. |
| title | Medical Coding with Biomedical Transformer Ensembles and Zero/Few-shot Learning |
| topic | Information Retrieval Computation and Language Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02662 |