Medical Language Processing for Patient Diagnosis Using Text Classification and Negation Labelling
Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher, Sarah Jane Delany · Arrow - TU Dublin (Technological University Dublin) · 2021
This paper describes the approach of the DIT AIGroup to the i2b2 Obesity Challenge to build a system to diagnose obesity and related co-morbidities from narrative, unstructured patient records. Based on experimental results a system was developed which used knowledge-light text classification using decision trees, and negation labelling.