Papers by Muru Wu
Intriguing Effect of the Correlation Prior on ICD-9 Code Assignment (2023.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | The Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) is a standardized coding system used worldwide to classify and code diseases, injuries, and other health conditions. |
| Approach: | They evaluate the usefulness of correlation bias and suggest it could improve ICD-9 code assignment in some cases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on classes that are more imbalanced and less correlated with other codes, but the effect on individual class can be negative or positive. |