Underlying cause of death identification from death certificates using reverse coding to text and a NLP based deep learning approach

The identification of the underlying cause of death is a matter of primary importance and one of the most challenging issues in the setting of healthcare policy making. The World Health Organisation provides guidelines for death certificates coding using the ICD-10 classification. Guidelines can be...

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Main Authors: Vincenzo Della Mea, Mihai Horia Popescu, Kevin Roitero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352914820306067