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Improving rare disease classification using imperfect knowledge graph.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-05 , DOI: 10.1186/s12911-019-0938-1 Xuedong Li 1 , Yue Wang 2 , Dongwu Wang 3 , Walter Yuan 3 , Dezhong Peng 1 , Qiaozhu Mei 4
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-05 , DOI: 10.1186/s12911-019-0938-1 Xuedong Li 1 , Yue Wang 2 , Dongwu Wang 3 , Walter Yuan 3 , Dezhong Peng 1 , Qiaozhu Mei 4
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BACKGROUND
Accurately recognizing rare diseases based on symptom description is an important task in patient triage, early risk stratification, and target therapies. However, due to the very nature of rare diseases, the lack of historical data poses a great challenge to machine learning-based approaches. On the other hand, medical knowledge in automatically constructed knowledge graphs (KGs) has the potential to compensate the lack of labeled training examples. This work aims to develop a rare disease classification algorithm that makes effective use of a knowledge graph, even when the graph is imperfect.
METHOD
We develop a text classification algorithm that represents a document as a combination of a "bag of words" and a "bag of knowledge terms," where a "knowledge term" is a term shared between the document and the subgraph of KG relevant to the disease classification task. We use two Chinese disease diagnosis corpora to evaluate the algorithm. The first one, HaoDaiFu, contains 51,374 chief complaints categorized into 805 diseases. The second data set, ChinaRe, contains 86,663 patient descriptions categorized into 44 disease categories.
RESULTS
On the two evaluation data sets, the proposed algorithm delivers robust performance and outperforms a wide range of baselines, including resampling, deep learning, and feature selection approaches. Both classification-based metric (macro-averaged F1 score) and ranking-based metric (mean reciprocal rank) are used in evaluation.
CONCLUSION
Medical knowledge in large-scale knowledge graphs can be effectively leveraged to improve rare diseases classification models, even when the knowledge graph is incomplete.
更新日期：2019-12-05
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