Atigeo at TREC 2012 Medical Records Track: ICD-9 Code Description Injection to Enhance Electronic Medical Record Search Accuracy
Abstract
The TREC 2012 Medical Records Track task involves the identification of electronic medical records (EMRs) that are relevant to a set of search topics. Atigeo has a Computer-Aided Coding (CAC) product that analyzes electronic medical records (EMRs) and recommends ICD-9 codes that represent the diagnoses and procedures described in those medical records. We have developed a suite of natural language processing (NLP) components that are useful for both tasks. Our TREC 2012 experiments focused on the ICD-9 admission and diagnosis codes included in more than 90% of the TREC EMRs: we used our comprehensive ICD-9 database to insert one of three variants of the text descriptions associated with each code found in each EMR. We describe the variations of ICD-9 code descriptions we inserted, the NLP components used for processing all the reports and topics, and report on the results of our experiments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA581772
Entities
People
- Alex Thomas
- Bryan Tinsley
- Joseph F. Mccarthy
- Mike Lazarus