Diagnosis Ranking with Knowledge Graph Convolutional Networks

Bing Liu, Guido Zuccon, Wen Hua, Weitong Chen

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Abstract

The automatic diagnosis of a medical condition provided the symptoms exhibited by a patient is at the basis of systems for clinical decision support, as well as for applications such as symptom checkers. Existing methods have not fully exploited medical knowledge: this likely hinders their effectiveness. In this work, we propose a knowledge-aware diagnosis ranking framework based on medical knowledge graph (KG) and graph convolutional neural network (GCN). The medical KG is used to model hierarchy and causality relationships between diseases and symptoms. We have evaluated our proposed method using realistic patient cases. The empirical results show that our knowledge-aware diagnosis ranking framework can improve the effectiveness of medical diagnosis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDjoerd Hiemstra, Marie-Francine Moens, Josiane Mothe, Raffaele Perego, Martin Potthast, Fabrizio Sebastiani
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages359-374
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030721121
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 28 Mar 20211 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12656 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period28/03/211/04/21

Keywords

  • Diagnosis ranking
  • Graph Convolutional Networks
  • Knowledge graph

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications

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