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Mining Primary Care Electronic Health Records for Automatic Disease Phenotyping: A Transparent Machine Learning Framework
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Mark Atkinson ,
Ernest Choy,
Sinead Brophy ,
Lin Huo,
Shang-ming Zhou
Diagnostics, Volume: 11, Issue: 10, Start page: 1908
Swansea University Authors:
Fabiola Fernandez-Gutierrez, Jonathan Kennedy, Roxanne Cooksey , Mark Atkinson , Sinead Brophy , Shang-ming Zhou
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/diagnostics11101908
Abstract
(1) Background: We aimed to develop a transparent machine-learning (ML) framework to automatically identify patients with a condition from electronic health records (EHRs) via a parsimonious set of features. (2) Methods: We linked multiple sources of EHRs, including 917,496,869 primary care records...
| Published in: | Diagnostics |
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| ISSN: | 2075-4418 |
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MDPI AG
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58381 |
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(1) Background: We aimed to develop a transparent machine-learning (ML) framework to automatically identify patients with a condition from electronic health records (EHRs) via a parsimonious set of features. (2) Methods: We linked multiple sources of EHRs, including 917,496,869 primary care records and 40,656,805 secondary care records and 694,954 records from specialist surgeries between 2002 and 2012, to generate a unique dataset. Then, we treated patient identification as a problem of text classification and proposed a transparent disease-phenotyping framework. This framework comprises a generation of patient representation, feature selection, and optimal phenotyping algorithm development to tackle the imbalanced nature of the data. This framework was extensively evaluated by identifying rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). (3) Results: Being applied to the linked dataset of 9657 patients with 1484 cases of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 204 cases of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), this framework achieved accuracy and positive predictive values of 86.19% and 88.46%, respectively, for RA and 99.23% and 97.75% for AS, comparable with expert knowledge-driven methods. (4) Conclusions: This framework could potentially be used as an efficient tool for identifying patients with a condition of interest from EHRs, helping clinicians in clinical decision-support process. |
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| Keywords: |
phenotyping, rheumatology, cohort identification, electronic health records, feature selection, transparent machine learning, text mining, big data, artificial intelligence |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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The authors acknowledge the supports from the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research (MR/K006525/1) and Health Data Research UK (NIWA1). This research was also supported
by “Major Project of National Social Science Foundation of China (16ZDA0092)” and “Guangxi
University ‘Digital ASEAN Cloud Big Data Security and Mining Technology’ Innovation Team” |
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10 |
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1908 |