Big Data Research ›› 2019, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (1): 25-38.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.2096-0271.2019003

• Topic:Big Data on Health Care • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Deep learning based patient representation learning framework of heterogeneous temporal events data

Luchen LIU,Jianhao SHEN,Ming ZHANG(),Zichang WANG,Haoran LI,Zequn LIU   

  1. School of Electronics Engineering and Computer and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Online:2019-01-01 Published:2019-02-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61772039);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.91646202);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61472006);Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology Grant(No.Z181100008918005)

Abstract:

Patient representation embeds patients' longitude records from multiple sources into continuous low-dimension vectors, which can be used to predict whether a disease will happen in the future. However, the problem is very challenging since patients' history records contain multiple heterogeneous temporal events. The visiting patterns of different types of events vary significantly, and there exist complex nonlinear relationships between different events. A novel model for learning the joint representation of heterogeneous temporal events was proposed. The model adds a new gate to control the visiting rates of different events which effectively models the irregular patterns of different events and their nonlinear correlations. Experiment results with real-world clinical data on the tasks of predicting death and abnormal lab tests prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach over competitive baselines.

Key words: electronic health record, patient representation learning, heterogeneous temporal events, deep learning

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