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Latent topic discovery of clinical concepts from hospital discharge summaries of a heterogeneous patient cohort

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Saeed, Mohammed; Lehman, Li-Wei; Long, William F.; Mark, Roger G
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Abstract
Patients in critical care often exhibit complex disease patterns. A fundamental challenge in clinical research is to identify clinical features that may be characteristic of adverse patient outcomes. In this work, we propose a data-driven approach for phenotype discovery of patients in critical care. We used Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP) as a non-parametric topic modeling technique to automatically discover the latent "topic" structure of diseases, symptoms, and findings documented in hospital discharge summaries. We show that the latent topic structure can be used to reveal phenotypic patterns of diseases and symptoms shared across subgroups of a patient cohort, and may contain prognostic value in stratifying patients' post hospital discharge mortality risks. Using discharge summaries of a large patient cohort from the MIMIC II database, we evaluate the clinical utility of the discovered topic structure in identifying patients who are at high risk of mortality within one year post hospital discharge. We demonstrate that the learned topic structure has statistically significant associations with mortality post hospital discharge, and may provide valuable insights in defining new feature sets for predicting patient outcomes.
Date issued
2014-11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112805
Department
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Citation
Lehman, Li-wei et al. “Latent Topic Discovery of Clinical Concepts from Hospital Discharge Summaries of a Heterogeneous Patient Cohort.” 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 26-30 2014, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), November 2014 © 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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ISBN
978-1-4244-7929-0
ISSN
1558-4615
1094-687X

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