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title = "Leveraging Deep Representations of Radiology Reports in Survival Analysis for Predicting Heart Failure Patient Mortality",
author = "Lee, Hyun Gi and
Sholle, Evan and
Beecy, Ashley and
Al{'}Aref, Subhi and
Peng, Yifan",
editor = "Toutanova, Kristina and
Rumshisky, Anna and
Zettlemoyer, Luke and
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and
Beltagy, Iz and
Bethard, Steven and
Cotterell, Ryan and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy and
Zhou, Yichao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.358",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.358",
pages = "4533--4538",
abstract = "Utilizing clinical texts in survival analysis is difficult because they are largely unstructured. Current automatic extraction models fail to capture textual information comprehensively since their labels are limited in scope. Furthermore, they typically require a large amount of data and high-quality expert annotations for training. In this work, we present a novel method of using BERT-based hidden layer representations of clinical texts as covariates for proportional hazards models to predict patient survival outcomes. We show that hidden layers yield notably more accurate predictions than predefined features, outperforming the previous baseline model by 5.7{\%} on average across C-index and time-dependent AUC. We make our work publicly available at \url{https://github.com/bionlplab/heart_failure_mortality}.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Leveraging Deep Representations of Radiology Reports in Survival Analysis for Predicting Heart Failure Patient Mortality
%A Lee, Hyun Gi
%A Sholle, Evan
%A Beecy, Ashley
%A Al’Aref, Subhi
%A Peng, Yifan
%Y Toutanova, Kristina
%Y Rumshisky, Anna
%Y Zettlemoyer, Luke
%Y Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
%Y Beltagy, Iz
%Y Bethard, Steven
%Y Cotterell, Ryan
%Y Chakraborty, Tanmoy
%Y Zhou, Yichao
%S Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
%D 2021
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F lee-etal-2021-leveraging
%X Utilizing clinical texts in survival analysis is difficult because they are largely unstructured. Current automatic extraction models fail to capture textual information comprehensively since their labels are limited in scope. Furthermore, they typically require a large amount of data and high-quality expert annotations for training. In this work, we present a novel method of using BERT-based hidden layer representations of clinical texts as covariates for proportional hazards models to predict patient survival outcomes. We show that hidden layers yield notably more accurate predictions than predefined features, outperforming the previous baseline model by 5.7% on average across C-index and time-dependent AUC. We make our work publicly available at https://github.com/bionlplab/heart_failure_mortality.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.358
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.358
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.358
%P 4533-4538
Markdown (Informal)
[Leveraging Deep Representations of Radiology Reports in Survival Analysis for Predicting Heart Failure Patient Mortality](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.358) (Lee et al., NAACL 2021)
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