Automated SNOMED CT Concept Annotation in Clinical Text Using Bi-GRU Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02556v1
• Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:08:49 GMT
• Title: Automated SNOMED CT Concept Annotation in Clinical Text Using Bi-GRU Neural Networks
• Authors: Ali Noori, Pratik Devkota, Somya Mohanty, Prashanti Manda,
• Abstract summary: This study introduces a neural sequence labeling approach for SNOMED CT concept recognition using a Bidirectional GRU model.<n>We preprocess text with domain-adapted SpaCy and SciBERT-based tokenization, segmenting sentences into overlapping 19-token chunks enriched with contextual, syntactic, and morphological features.<n>The Bi-GRU model assigns IOB tags to identify concept spans and achieves strong performance with a 90 percent F1-score on the validation set.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Automated annotation of clinical text with standardized medical concepts is critical for enabling structured data extraction and decision support. SNOMED CT provides a rich ontology for labeling clinical entities, but manual annotation is labor-intensive and impractical at scale. This study introduces a neural sequence labeling approach for SNOMED CT concept recognition using a Bidirectional GRU model. Leveraging a subset of MIMIC-IV, we preprocess text with domain-adapted SpaCy and SciBERT-based tokenization, segmenting sentences into overlapping 19-token chunks enriched with contextual, syntactic, and morphological features. The Bi-GRU model assigns IOB tags to identify concept spans and achieves strong performance with a 90 percent F1-score on the validation set. These results surpass traditional rule-based systems and match or exceed existing neural models. Qualitative analysis shows effective handling of ambiguous terms and misspellings. Our findings highlight that lightweight RNN-based architectures can deliver high-quality clinical concept annotation with significantly lower computational cost than transformer-based models, making them well-suited for real-world deployment.

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