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ConCarE: Personalized Clinical Feature Embedding via Capturing the Healthcare Context

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Publication date3/04/2020
Host publicationThe Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
PublisherAAAI
Pages833-840
Number of pages8
ISBN (print)9781577358350
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
PublisherAAAI
Number1
Volume34
ISSN (Print)2159-5399
ISSN (electronic)2374-3468

Abstract

Predicting the patient’s clinical outcome from the historical electronic medical records (EMR) is a fundamental research problem in medical informatics. Most deep learning-based solutions for EMR analysis concentrate on learning the clinical visit embedding and exploring the relations between vis- its. Although those works have shown superior performances in healthcare prediction, they fail to thoroughly explore the personal characteristics during the clinical visits. Moreover, existing work usually assumes that a more recent record has a larger weight in the prediction, but this assumption is not true for certain clinical features. In this paper, we propose ConCare to handle the irregular EMR data and extract feature interrelationship to perform individualized healthcare prediction. Our solution can embed the feature sequences separately by modeling the time-aware distribution. ConCare further improves the multi-head self-attention via the cross-head decorrelation, so that the inter-dependencies among dynamic features and static baseline information can be diversely captured to form the personal health context. Experimental results on two real-world EMR datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of ConCare. More importantly, ConCare is able to extract medical findings which can be confirmed by human experts and medical literature.