IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 13, No 2: June 2024

Towards a disease prediction system: biobert-based medical profile representation

Hatoum, Rima (Unknown)
Alkhazraji, Ali (Unknown)
Ibrahim, Zein Al Abidin (Unknown)
Dhayni, Houssein (Unknown)
Sbeity, Ihab (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2024

Abstract

Predicting diseases in advance is crucial in healthcare, allowing for early intervention and potentially saving lives. Machine learning plays a pivotal role in healthcare advancements today. Various studies aim to predict diseases based on prior knowledge. However, a significant challenge lies in representing medical information for machine learning. Patient medical histories are often in an unreadable format, necessitating filtering and conversion into numerical data. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have made this task more manageable. In this paper, we propose three medical information representations, two of which are based on bidirectional encoder representations from transformers for biomedical text mining (BioBERT), a state-of-the-art text representation technique in the biomedical field. We compare these representations to highlight the powerful advantages of BioBERT-based methods in disease prediction. We evaluate our approach efficiency using the medical information mart for intensive careIII (MIMIC-III) database, containing data from 46,520 patients. Our focus is on predicting coronary artery disease. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposal. In summary, BioBERT, NLP techniques, and the MIMIC-III database are key components in our work, which significantly enhances disease prediction in healthcare.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...