Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

A multiclass classification method based on deep learning for named entity recognition in electronic medical records

  • Xishuang Dong
  • , Lijun Qian
  • , Yi Guan
  • , Lei Huang
  • , Qiubin Yu
  • , Jinfeng Yang
  • Prairie View A&M University
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Harbin Medical University
  • Harbin University of Science and Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

Research of named entity recognition (NER) on electrical medical records (EMRs) focuses on verifying whether methods to NER in traditional texts are effective for that in EMRs, and there is no model proposed for enhancing performance of NER via deep learning from the perspective of multiclass classification. In this paper, we annotate a real EMR corpus to accomplish the model training and evaluation. And, then, we present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based multiclass classification method for mining named entities from EMRs. The method consists of two phases. In the phase 1, EMRs are pre-processed for representing samples with word embedding. In the phase 2, the method is built by segmenting training data into many subsets and training a CNN binary classification model on each of subset. Experimental results showed the effectiveness of our method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 New York Scientific Data Summit, NYSDS 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781467390514
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Nov 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event2016 New York Scientific Data Summit, NYSDS 2016 - New York, United States
Duration: 14 Aug 201617 Aug 2016

Publication series

Name2016 New York Scientific Data Summit, NYSDS 2016 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 New York Scientific Data Summit, NYSDS 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period14/08/1617/08/16

Keywords

  • convolutional neural network
  • electrical medical records
  • machine learning
  • named entity recognition
  • natural language processing

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'A multiclass classification method based on deep learning for named entity recognition in electronic medical records'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this