Towards automated clinical coding
In my new paper with Georgios Spithourakis and Sebastian Riedel, we use recurrent neural networks to predict clinical codes from patients' discharge summaries. In doing so, we grapple with the idiosyncracies of clinical text and develop a method for learning better representations of rare diseases. A man attends the emergency department of his local hospital, having developed fevers and breathlessness. Whilst being assessed, he interacts with numerous nurses, doctors and other hospital staff....