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Main Authors: Li-Han, Leo Y., Larson, Ellen L., Habermann, Elizabeth B., Thiels, Cornelius A., Salehinejad, Hojjat
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27799
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author Li-Han, Leo Y.
Larson, Ellen L.
Habermann, Elizabeth B.
Thiels, Cornelius A.
Salehinejad, Hojjat
author_facet Li-Han, Leo Y.
Larson, Ellen L.
Habermann, Elizabeth B.
Thiels, Cornelius A.
Salehinejad, Hojjat
contents International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a globally recognized coding system that records diagnostic events during each patient encounter, providing a standardized data foundation for various clinical tasks. However, the irregular and hierarchical nature of ICD code sequences poses challenges for N-D lattice-based sequential modeling methods, leading to overly complex model designs. In this paper, we propose GraD-IBD, a graph diagnosis model that reformulates longitudinal ICD trajectories as visit-bucketized, temporally directed graphs to detect the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A novel context-aware, time-decay message passing mechanism was developed to capture temporal dependencies while reducing model complexity. The experimental results using a real-world clinical dataset demonstrated consistent and robust improvements in IBD detection over state-of-the-art methods, with significant reductions in computational complexity compared to sequential models. These findings highlight the potential of graph representation learning to enable efficient, scalable, and accurate disease risk prediction from longitudinal ICD diagnosis codes.
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spellingShingle GraD-IBD: Graph Representation Learning from Diagnosis Trajectories for Early Detection of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Li-Han, Leo Y.
Larson, Ellen L.
Habermann, Elizabeth B.
Thiels, Cornelius A.
Salehinejad, Hojjat
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a globally recognized coding system that records diagnostic events during each patient encounter, providing a standardized data foundation for various clinical tasks. However, the irregular and hierarchical nature of ICD code sequences poses challenges for N-D lattice-based sequential modeling methods, leading to overly complex model designs. In this paper, we propose GraD-IBD, a graph diagnosis model that reformulates longitudinal ICD trajectories as visit-bucketized, temporally directed graphs to detect the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A novel context-aware, time-decay message passing mechanism was developed to capture temporal dependencies while reducing model complexity. The experimental results using a real-world clinical dataset demonstrated consistent and robust improvements in IBD detection over state-of-the-art methods, with significant reductions in computational complexity compared to sequential models. These findings highlight the potential of graph representation learning to enable efficient, scalable, and accurate disease risk prediction from longitudinal ICD diagnosis codes.
title GraD-IBD: Graph Representation Learning from Diagnosis Trajectories for Early Detection of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
topic Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27799