Canine Parvovirus Diagnosis Classification Utilizing Veterinary Free-Text Notes
Zhecheng Sheng, Emma R. Bollig, Jennifer L. Granick, Rui Zhang, Amanda L. Beaudoin · 2022 IEEE 10th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) · 2022
This work demonstrates a NLP pipeline on classifying different canine parvovirus diagnosis from visit summaries. The preliminary results show promising efficacy in employing BERT based models for this task. This work also reveals a way to make use of the largely untapped data from veterinary free-text fields to help improve pet health.