Archived Project

NLP for Health: NLP for Healthcare and Clinical Intelligence

Advancing clinical information management through automated medical coding, patient outcome prediction, and biomedical reasoning.

Our research in NLP for Health focuses on transforming unstructured clinical documents into structured, actionable intelligence.

We developed advanced deep learning architectures for automated medical coding, patient outcome prediction, and complex biomedical reasoning, ensuring that healthcare providers can leverage the full depth of electronic health records.

Key Objectives

Automated Medical Coding

Implementing state-of-the-art neural networks to map clinical notes to standardized ICD codes, addressing challenges like label imbalance and document noise.

Information Extraction

Leveraging graph embeddings and weak supervision to identify medical entities and detect adverse drug events across diverse clinical texts.

Biomedical Reasoning

Developing logical query models and multitask hypernetworks to predict patient outcomes and reason about complex drug-drug interactions.

Publications

ACM Computing Surveys 2024
A Unified Review of Deep Learning for Automated Medical Coding

Shaoxiong Ji, Xiaobo Li, Wei Sun, Hang Dong, Ara Taalas, Yijia Zhang, Honghan Wu, Esa Pitkänen, and Pekka Marttinen

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IEEE JBHI 2024
TransFOL: A Logical Query Model for Complex Relational Reasoning in Drug-Drug Interaction

Junkai Cheng, Yijia Zhang, Hengyi Zhang, Shaoxiong Ji, and Mingyu Lu

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EACL 2023
Patient Outcome and Zero-shot Diagnosis Prediction with Hypernetwork-guided Multitask Learning

Shaoxiong Ji and Pekka Marttinen

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ECML-PKDD 2023
Weak Supervision and Clustering-Based Sample Selection for Clinical Named Entity Recognition

Wei Sun, Shaoxiong Ji, Tuulia Denti, Hans Moen, Oleg Kerro, Antti Rannikko, Pekka Marttinen, and Miika Koskinen

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ACM TIST 2022
Multitask Balanced and Recalibrated Network for Medical Code Prediction

Wei Sun, Shaoxiong Ji, Erik Cambria, and Pekka Marttinen

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npj Digital Medicine 2022
Automated Clinical Coding: What, Why, and Where We Are?

Hang Dong, Matúš Falis, William Whiteley, Beatrice Alex, Joshua Matterson, Shaoxiong Ji, Jiaoyan Chen, and Honghan Wu

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ECML-PKDD 2022
Contextualized Graph Embeddings for Adverse Drug Event Detection

Ya Gao, Shaoxiong Ji, Tongxuan Zhang, Prayag Tiwari, and Pekka Marttinen

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ACL Findings 2021
Medical Code Assignment with Gated Convolution and Note-Code Interaction

Shaoxiong Ji, Shirui Pan, and Pekka Marttinen

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