Title
Detection of Surgical Site Infection Utilizing Automated Feature Generation in Clinical Notes.
Abstract
Postsurgical complications (PSCs) are known as a deviation from the normal postsurgical course and categorized by severity and treatment requirements. Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of major PSCs and the most common healthcare-associated infection, resulting in increased length of hospital stay and cost. In this work, we proposed an automated way to generate keyword features using sublanguage analysis with heuristics to detect SSI from cohort in clinical notes and evaluated these keywords with medical experts. To further validate our approach, we also applied different machine learning algorithms on cohort using automatically generated keywords. The results showed that our approach was able to identify SSI keywords from clinical narratives and can be used as a foundation to develop an information extraction system or support search-based natural language processing (NLP) approaches by augmenting search queries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s41666-018-0042-9
Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Postsurgical complication,Feature generation,Machine learning,Natural language processing
Postsurgical complications,Information retrieval,Computer science,Information extraction,Heuristics,Feature generation,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Sublanguage
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1803.08850
3
2509-4971
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
15
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feichen Shen112322.60
David W. Larson274.49
James M. Naessens364.23
Elizabeth B. Habermann410.69
Hongfang Liu51479160.66
Sunghwan Sohn668750.76