Abstract
Mining electronic health records (EHRs) to identify contextually related clinical concept clusters that tend to co-occur temporarily and consistently could improve data-driven clinical pathway (CP) construction. However, the automatic extraction of contextually related clinical concept clusters contains a vast amount of irrelevant information. Hence, this paper proposes a knowledge network-enabled literature-based discovery (LBD) approach to remove noise from clusters. The authors used published literature to filter spurious concepts from the clusters and used data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs's major depressive disorder (MDD) cohort of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) for their experimentation. The approach was applied to 2,967 clusters extracted from the MDD OEF/OIF database. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can filter 94% of the irrelevant information. Moreover, the authors applied various network mining algorithms to analyze the clusters and demonstrated that LBD, along with network mining techniques, is a useful method for finding accurate contextually related clinical concept clusters. This could help domain researchers perform advanced analytics in CPs.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | BHI 2021 - 2021 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Proceedings |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781665403580 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Event | 2021 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Greece Duration: Jul 27 2021 → Jul 30 2021 |
Publication series
Name | BHI 2021 - 2021 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Proceedings |
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Conference
Conference | 2021 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2021 |
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Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 07/27/21 → 07/30/21 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).
Keywords
- Clinical pathway
- Knowledge network
- Major depressive disorder
- Semantic MEDLINE
- Unified medical language system