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Information Extraction from Cancer Pathology Reports with Graph Convolution Networks for Natural Language Texts...

by Hong Jun Yoon, John P Gounley, Michael T Young, Georgia Tourassi
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Journal Name
2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Book Title
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Publication Date
Page Numbers
1 to 4
Issue
1
Conference Name
2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Conference Location
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Conference Sponsor
IEEE
Conference Date
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Graph-of-words is a flexible and efficient text representation which addresses well-known challenges, such as word ordering and variation of expressions, to natural language processing. In this paper, we consider the latest graph-based convolutional neural network technique, the Text Graph Convolutional Network (Text GCN), in the context of performing classification tasks on free-form natural language texts. To do this, we designed a study of multi-task information extraction from medical text documents. We implemented multi-task learning in the Text GCN, performed hyperparameter optimization, and measured the clinical task performances. We evaluated micro and macro-F1 scores of four information extraction tasks, including subsite, laterality, behavior, and histological grades from cancer pathology reports. The scores for the Text GCN significantly outperformed our previous studies with convolutional neural networks, suggesting that the Text GCN model is superior to traditional models in task performance.