Classification of Syncope Cases in Norwegian Medical Records
Ildikó Pilán, Pål H. Brekke, Fredrik Andreas Dahl, Tore Gundersen, Haldor Husby, Øystein Nytrø, Lilja Øvrelid · 2020
Loss of consciousness, so-called syncope, is a commonly occurring symptom associated with worse prognosis for a number of heart-related diseases.We present a comparison of methods for a diagnosis classification task in Norwegian clinical notes, targeting syncope, i.e. fainting cases.We find that an often neglected baseline with keyword matching constitutes a rather strong basis, but more advanced methods do offer some improvement in classification performance, especially a convolutional neural network model.The developed pipeline is planned to be used for quantifying unregistered syncope cases in Norway.