Automatic methods to extract New York heart association classification from clinical notes

Rui Zhang; Sisi Ma; Liesa Shanahan; Jessica Munroe; Sarah Horn; Stuart Speedie

doi:10.1109/BIBM.2017.8217848

Automatic methods to extract New York heart association classification from clinical notes

Rui Zhang, Sisi Ma, Liesa Shanahan, Jessica Munroe, Sarah Horn, Stuart Speedie

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Abstract

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is an established pacing therapy for heart failure patients. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification is often used as a measure of a patient's response to CRT. Identifying NYHA class for heart failure patients in an electronic health record (EHR) consistently, over time, can provide better understanding of the progression of heart failure and assessment of CRT response and effectiveness. However, NYHA is rarely stored in EHR structured data such information is often documented in unstructured clinical notes. In this study, we thus investigated the use of natural language processing (NLP) methods to identify NYHA classification from clinical notes. We collected 6,174 clinical notes that were matched with hospital-specific custom NYHA class diagnosis codes. Machine-learning based methods performed similar with a rule-based method. The best machine-learning method, support vector machine with n-gram features, performed the best (93% F-measure). Further validation of the findings is required.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017
Editors	Illhoi Yoo, Jane Huiru Zheng, Yang Gong, Xiaohua Tony Hu, Chi-Ren Shyu, Yana Bromberg, Jean Gao, Dmitry Korkin
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1296-1299
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509030491
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2017.8217848
State	Published - Dec 15 2017
Event	2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017 - Kansas City, United States Duration: Nov 13 2017 → Nov 16 2017

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Volume	2017-January

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Other	2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Kansas City
Period	11/13/17 → 11/16/17

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Research supported by Medtronic through a contract with the University of Minnesota and by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute grant from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes

Funding Information:
Research supported by Medtronic through a contract with the University of Minnesota and by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute grant from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000114, Blazar)

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© 2017 IEEE.

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Clinical Notes
Electronic Health Records
Natural Language Processing
New York Heart Association (NYHA)

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Zhang, R., Ma, S., Shanahan, L., Munroe, J., Horn, S., & Speedie, S. (2017). Automatic methods to extract New York heart association classification from clinical notes. In I. Yoo, J. H. Zheng, Y. Gong, X. T. Hu, C.-R. Shyu, Y. Bromberg, J. Gao, & D. Korkin (Eds.), Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017 (pp. 1296-1299). (Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017; Vol. 2017-January). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2017.8217848

Automatic methods to extract New York heart association classification from clinical notes. / Zhang, Rui ; Ma, Sisi; Shanahan, Liesa et al.
Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017. ed. / Illhoi Yoo; Jane Huiru Zheng; Yang Gong; Xiaohua Tony Hu; Chi-Ren Shyu; Yana Bromberg; Jean Gao; Dmitry Korkin. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 1296-1299 (Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017; Vol. 2017-January).

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Zhang, R , Ma, S, Shanahan, L, Munroe, J, Horn, S & Speedie, S 2017, Automatic methods to extract New York heart association classification from clinical notes. in I Yoo, JH Zheng, Y Gong, XT Hu, C-R Shyu, Y Bromberg, J Gao & D Korkin (eds), Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017, vol. 2017-January, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1296-1299, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017, Kansas City, United States, 11/13/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2017.8217848

Zhang R , Ma S, Shanahan L, Munroe J, Horn S, Speedie S. Automatic methods to extract New York heart association classification from clinical notes. In Yoo I, Zheng JH, Gong Y, Hu XT, Shyu CR, Bromberg Y, Gao J, Korkin D, editors, Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017. p. 1296-1299. (Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017). doi: 10.1109/BIBM.2017.8217848

Zhang, Rui ; Ma, Sisi ; Shanahan, Liesa et al. / Automatic methods to extract New York heart association classification from clinical notes. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017. editor / Illhoi Yoo ; Jane Huiru Zheng ; Yang Gong ; Xiaohua Tony Hu ; Chi-Ren Shyu ; Yana Bromberg ; Jean Gao ; Dmitry Korkin. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. pp. 1296-1299 (Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2017).

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