Improving Cause-of-Death Classification from Verbal Autopsy Reports

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17161v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:14:08 GMT
• Title: Improving Cause-of-Death Classification from Verbal Autopsy Reports
• Authors: Thokozile Manaka, Terence van Zyl, Deepak Kar
• Abstract summary: Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have fared poorly in the health sector. A cause of death is often determined by a verbal autopsy (VA) report in places without reliable death registration systems. We present a system that relies on two transfer learning paradigms of monolingual learning and multi-source domain adaptation.
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• Abstract: In many lower-and-middle income countries including South Africa, data access in health facilities is restricted due to patient privacy and confidentiality policies. Further, since clinical data is unique to individual institutions and laboratories, there are insufficient data annotation standards and conventions. As a result of the scarcity of textual data, natural language processing (NLP) techniques have fared poorly in the health sector. A cause of death (COD) is often determined by a verbal autopsy (VA) report in places without reliable death registration systems. A non-clinician field worker does a VA report using a set of standardized questions as a guide to uncover symptoms of a COD. This analysis focuses on the textual part of the VA report as a case study to address the challenge of adapting NLP techniques in the health domain. We present a system that relies on two transfer learning paradigms of monolingual learning and multi-source domain adaptation to improve VA narratives for the target task of the COD classification. We use the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo) models pre-trained on the general English and health domains to extract features from the VA narratives. Our findings suggest that this transfer learning system improves the COD classification tasks and that the narrative text contains valuable information for figuring out a COD. Our results further show that combining binary VA features and narrative text features learned via this framework boosts the classification task of COD.

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