TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mitra, Avijit
AU  - Rawat, Bhanu Pratap Singh
AU  - McManus, David D
AU  - Yu, Hong
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/7/2
TI  - Relation Classification for Bleeding Events From Electronic Health Records Using Deep Learning Systems: An Empirical Study
JO  - JMIR Med Inform
SP  - e27527
VL  - 9
IS  - 7
KW  - bleeding
KW  - relation classification
KW  - electronic health records
KW  - CNN
KW  - GCN
KW  - BERT
AB  - Background: Accurate detection of bleeding events from electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for identifying and characterizing different common and serious medical problems. To extract such information from EHRs, it is essential to identify the relations between bleeding events and related clinical entities (eg, bleeding anatomic sites and lab tests). With the advent of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning (DL)-based techniques, many studies have focused on their applicability for various clinical applications. However, no prior work has utilized DL to extract relations between bleeding events and relevant entities. Objective: In this study, we aimed to evaluate multiple DL systems on a novel EHR data set for bleeding event–related relation classification. Methods: We first expert annotated a new data set of 1046 deidentified EHR notes for bleeding events and their attributes. On this data set, we evaluated three state-of-the-art DL architectures for the bleeding event relation classification task, namely, convolutional neural network (CNN), attention-guided graph convolutional network (AGGCN), and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). We used three BERT-based models, namely, BERT pretrained on biomedical data (BioBERT), BioBERT pretrained on clinical text (Bio+Clinical BERT), and BioBERT pretrained on EHR notes (EhrBERT). Results: Our experiments showed that the BERT-based models significantly outperformed the CNN and AGGCN models. Specifically, BioBERT achieved a macro F1 score of 0.842, outperforming both the AGGCN (macro F1 score, 0.828) and CNN models (macro F1 score, 0.763) by 1.4% (P<.001) and 7.9% (P<.001), respectively. Conclusions: In this comprehensive study, we explored and compared different DL systems to classify relations between bleeding events and other medical concepts. On our corpus, BERT-based models outperformed other DL models for identifying the relations of bleeding-related entities. In addition to pretrained contextualized word representation, BERT-based models benefited from the use of target entity representation over traditional sequence representation 
SN  - 2291-9694
UR  - https://medinform.jmir.org/2021/7/e27527
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/27527
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34255697
DO  - 10.2196/27527
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/27527
ER  -