Identifying first episodes of psychosis in psychiatric patient records using machine learning

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Abstract

Natural language processing is being pressed into use to facilitate the selection of cases for medical research in electronic health record databases, though study inclusion criteria may be complex, and the linguistic cues indicating eligibility may be subtle. Finding cases of first episode psychosis raised a number of problems for automated approaches, providing an opportunity to explore how machine learning technologies might be used to overcome them. A system was delivered that achieved an AUC of 0.85, enabling 95% of relevant cases to be identified whilst halving the work required in manually reviewing cases. The techniques that made this possible are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioNLP 2016 - Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
EditorsKevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun-ichi Tsujii
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages196-205
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626128
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2016 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 12 Aug 2016 → …

Publication series

NameBioNLP 2016 - Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Conference

Conference15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period12/08/2016 → …

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