R-GAT: Cancer Document Classification Leveraging Graph-Based Residual Network for Scenarios with Limited Data

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Autori principali: Hossain, Elias, Nuzhat, Tasfia, Masum, Shamsul, Rahimi, Shahram, Golilarz, Noorbakhsh Amiri
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author Hossain, Elias
Nuzhat, Tasfia
Masum, Shamsul
Rahimi, Shahram
Golilarz, Noorbakhsh Amiri
author_facet Hossain, Elias
Nuzhat, Tasfia
Masum, Shamsul
Rahimi, Shahram
Golilarz, Noorbakhsh Amiri
contents Accurate classification of cancer-related biomedical abstracts is critical for advancing cancer informatics and supporting decision-making in healthcare research. Yet progress in this domain is often constrained by limited availability of labeled corpora and the high computational demands of transformer-based approaches. To address these challenges, we propose a Residual Graph Attention Network (R-GAT) that integrates multi-head attention with residual connections to capture semantic and relational dependencies in biomedical texts. Evaluated on a curated dataset of 1,875 PubMed abstracts spanning thyroid, colon, lung, and generic cancer topics, R-GAT achieves stable and competitive performance, comparable to transformer-based models such as BioBERT and BioClinicalBERT and strong classical baselines like Logistic Regression, while requiring significantly fewer computational resources. Ablation studies confirm the importance of attention and residual connections in ensuring robustness under limited-data conditions. To support reproducibility and facilitate future research, we also release the curated dataset. Together, these contributions demonstrate the value of lightweight graph-based architectures as reliable and resource-efficient alternatives to computationally intensive transformers in biomedical NLP.
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spellingShingle R-GAT: Cancer Document Classification Leveraging Graph-Based Residual Network for Scenarios with Limited Data
Hossain, Elias
Nuzhat, Tasfia
Masum, Shamsul
Rahimi, Shahram
Golilarz, Noorbakhsh Amiri
Artificial Intelligence
Accurate classification of cancer-related biomedical abstracts is critical for advancing cancer informatics and supporting decision-making in healthcare research. Yet progress in this domain is often constrained by limited availability of labeled corpora and the high computational demands of transformer-based approaches. To address these challenges, we propose a Residual Graph Attention Network (R-GAT) that integrates multi-head attention with residual connections to capture semantic and relational dependencies in biomedical texts. Evaluated on a curated dataset of 1,875 PubMed abstracts spanning thyroid, colon, lung, and generic cancer topics, R-GAT achieves stable and competitive performance, comparable to transformer-based models such as BioBERT and BioClinicalBERT and strong classical baselines like Logistic Regression, while requiring significantly fewer computational resources. Ablation studies confirm the importance of attention and residual connections in ensuring robustness under limited-data conditions. To support reproducibility and facilitate future research, we also release the curated dataset. Together, these contributions demonstrate the value of lightweight graph-based architectures as reliable and resource-efficient alternatives to computationally intensive transformers in biomedical NLP.
title R-GAT: Cancer Document Classification Leveraging Graph-Based Residual Network for Scenarios with Limited Data
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15198