Detecting Adverse Drug Events with Rapidly Trained Classification Models

Alec B. Chapman, Kelly S. Peterson, Patrick R. Alba, Scott L. DuVall and Olga V. Patterson ()
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Alec B. Chapman: Health Fidelity
Kelly S. Peterson: VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, University of Utah
Patrick R. Alba: VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, University of Utah
Scott L. DuVall: VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, University of Utah
Olga V. Patterson: VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, University of Utah

Drug Safety, 2019, vol. 42, issue 1, No 15, 147-156

Abstract: Abstract Introduction Identifying occurrences of medication side effects and adverse drug events (ADEs) is an important and challenging task because they are frequently only mentioned in clinical narrative and are not formally reported. Methods We developed a natural language processing (NLP) system that aims to identify mentions of symptoms and drugs in clinical notes and label the relationship between the mentions as indications or ADEs. The system leverages an existing word embeddings model with induced word clusters for dimensionality reduction. It employs a conditional random field (CRF) model for named entity recognition (NER) and a random forest model for relation extraction (RE). Results Final performance of each model was evaluated separately and then combined on a manually annotated evaluation set. The micro-averaged F1 score was 80.9% for NER, 88.1% for RE, and 61.2% for the integrated systems. Outputs from our systems were submitted to the NLP Challenges for Detecting Medication and Adverse Drug Events from Electronic Health Records (MADE 1.0) competition (Yu et al. in http://bio-nlp.org/index.php/projects/39-nlp-challenges , 2018). System performance was evaluated in three tasks (NER, RE, and complete system) with multiple teams submitting output from their systems for each task. Our RE system placed first in Task 2 of the challenge and our integrated system achieved third place in Task 3. Conclusion Adding to the growing number of publications that utilize NLP to detect occurrences of ADEs, our study illustrates the benefits of employing innovative feature engineering.

Date: 2019
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