Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS
Volume 113, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103637
Keywords
Electronic health record; Representation learning; Transfer learning; Risk stratification; Machine learning
Funding
- NLM [R01-LM011369-05]
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Patient representation schemes improve the accuracy of clinical prediction models by transferring information learned from the entire patient population to the task of training specific models, particularly when only a small number of patient records are available.
Widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has fueled the development of using machine learning to build prediction models for various clinical outcomes. However, this process is often constrained by having a relatively small number of patient records for training the model. We demonstrate that using patient representation schemes inspired from techniques in natural language processing can increase the accuracy of clinical prediction models by transferring information learned from the entire patient population to the task of training a specific model, where only a subset of the population is relevant. Such patient representation schemes enable a 3.5% mean improvement in AUROC on five prediction tasks compared to standard baselines, with the average improvement rising to 19% when only a small number of patient records are available for training the clinical prediction model.
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