Automatic assignment of diagnosis codes to free-form text medical note

International Classification of Disease (ICD) coding plays a significant role in classify-ing morbidity and mortality rates. Currently, ICD codes are assigned to a patient’s medical record by hand by medical practitioners or specialist clinical coders. This practice is prone to errors,...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Universal Computer Science
Main Authors: Stefan Strydom, Andrei Michael Dreyer, Brink van der Merwe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Graz University of Technology 2023-04-01
Online Access:https://lib.jucs.org/article/89923/download/pdf/