KEEP: Integrating Medical Ontologies with Clinical Data for Robust Code Embeddings
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| author | Elhussein, Ahmed Meddeb, Paul Newbury, Abigail Mirone, Jeanne Stoll, Martin Gursoy, Gamze |
| author_facet | Elhussein, Ahmed Meddeb, Paul Newbury, Abigail Mirone, Jeanne Stoll, Martin Gursoy, Gamze |
| contents | Machine learning in healthcare requires effective representation of structured medical codes, but current methods face a trade off: knowledge graph based approaches capture formal relationships but miss real world patterns, while data driven methods learn empirical associations but often overlook structured knowledge in medical terminologies. We present KEEP (Knowledge preserving and Empirically refined Embedding Process), an efficient framework that bridges this gap by combining knowledge graph embeddings with adaptive learning from clinical data. KEEP first generates embeddings from knowledge graphs, then employs regularized training on patient records to adaptively integrate empirical patterns while preserving ontological relationships. Importantly, KEEP produces final embeddings without task specific auxiliary or end to end training enabling KEEP to support multiple downstream applications and model architectures. Evaluations on structured EHR from UK Biobank and MIMIC IV demonstrate that KEEP outperforms both traditional and Language Model based approaches in capturing semantic relationships and predicting clinical outcomes. Moreover, KEEP's minimal computational requirements make it particularly suitable for resource constrained environments. |
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| spellingShingle | KEEP: Integrating Medical Ontologies with Clinical Data for Robust Code Embeddings Elhussein, Ahmed Meddeb, Paul Newbury, Abigail Mirone, Jeanne Stoll, Martin Gursoy, Gamze Machine Learning Machine learning in healthcare requires effective representation of structured medical codes, but current methods face a trade off: knowledge graph based approaches capture formal relationships but miss real world patterns, while data driven methods learn empirical associations but often overlook structured knowledge in medical terminologies. We present KEEP (Knowledge preserving and Empirically refined Embedding Process), an efficient framework that bridges this gap by combining knowledge graph embeddings with adaptive learning from clinical data. KEEP first generates embeddings from knowledge graphs, then employs regularized training on patient records to adaptively integrate empirical patterns while preserving ontological relationships. Importantly, KEEP produces final embeddings without task specific auxiliary or end to end training enabling KEEP to support multiple downstream applications and model architectures. Evaluations on structured EHR from UK Biobank and MIMIC IV demonstrate that KEEP outperforms both traditional and Language Model based approaches in capturing semantic relationships and predicting clinical outcomes. Moreover, KEEP's minimal computational requirements make it particularly suitable for resource constrained environments. |
| title | KEEP: Integrating Medical Ontologies with Clinical Data for Robust Code Embeddings |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05049 |