Learning Hierarchical Representations of Electronic Health Records for Clinical Outcome Prediction

Abstract

Clinical outcome prediction based on the Electronic Health Record (EHR) plays a crucial role in improving the quality of healthcare. Conventional deep sequential models fail to capture the rich temporal patterns encoded in the longand irregular clinical event sequences. We make the observation that clinical events at a long time scale exhibit strongtemporal patterns, while events within a short time period tend to be disordered co-occurrence. We thus propose differentiated mechanisms to model clinical events at different time scales. Our model learns hierarchical representationsof event sequences, to adaptively distinguish between short-range and long-range events, and accurately capture coretemporal dependencies. Experimental results on real clinical data show that our model greatly improves over previous state-of-the-art models, achieving AUC scores of 0.94 and 0.90 for predicting death and ICU admission respectively, Our model also successfully identifies important events for different clinical outcome prediction tasks

arXiv comment10 pages, 2 figures, accepted by AMIA annual symposium

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