Hi-BEHRT: Hierarchical Transformer-based model for accurate prediction of clinical events using multimodal longitudinal electronic health records

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11360v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:47:08 GMT
• Title: Hi-BEHRT: Hierarchical Transformer-based model for accurate prediction of clinical events using multimodal longitudinal electronic health records
• Authors: Yikuan Li, Mohammad Mamouei, Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi, Shishir Rao, Abdelaali Hassaine, Dexter Canoy, Thomas Lukasiewicz, and Kazem Rahimi
• Abstract summary: We present Hi-BEHRT, a hierarchical Transformer-based model that can extract associations from much longer sequences. Using a multimodal large-scale linked longitudinal electronic health records, the Hi-BEHRT exceeds the state-of-the-art BROCT 1% to 5% area. We also provide an effective end-to-end pre-training strategy for Hi-BEHRT using EHR, improving its transferability on predicting clinical events.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Electronic health records represent a holistic overview of patients' trajectories. Their increasing availability has fueled new hopes to leverage them and develop accurate risk prediction models for a wide range of diseases. Given the complex interrelationships of medical records and patient outcomes, deep learning models have shown clear merits in achieving this goal. However, a key limitation of these models remains their capacity in processing long sequences. Capturing the whole history of medical encounters is expected to lead to more accurate predictions, but the inclusion of records collected for decades and from multiple resources can inevitably exceed the receptive field of the existing deep learning architectures. This can result in missing crucial, long-term dependencies. To address this gap, we present Hi-BEHRT, a hierarchical Transformer-based model that can significantly expand the receptive field of Transformers and extract associations from much longer sequences. Using a multimodal large-scale linked longitudinal electronic health records, the Hi-BEHRT exceeds the state-of-the-art BEHRT 1% to 5% for area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve and 3% to 6% for area under the precision recall (AUPRC) curve on average, and 3% to 6% (AUROC) and 3% to 11% (AUPRC) for patients with long medical history for 5-year heart failure, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and stroke risk prediction. Additionally, because pretraining for hierarchical Transformer is not well-established, we provide an effective end-to-end contrastive pre-training strategy for Hi-BEHRT using EHR, improving its transferability on predicting clinical events with relatively small training dataset.

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