Structured Information Matters: Explainable ICD Coding with Patient-Level Knowledge Graphs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09699v1
• Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:01:38 GMT
• Title: Structured Information Matters: Explainable ICD Coding with Patient-Level Knowledge Graphs
• Abstract summary: Mapping clinical documents to standardised clinical vocabularies is an important task, as it provides structured data for information retrieval and analysis.<n>Manual coding is difficult and time-consuming, making it impractical at scale.<n>We compute a structured representation of the input documents, making use of document-level knowledge graphs (KGs) that provide a comprehensive structured view of a patient's condition.<n>Our experiments yield improved Macro-F1 scores by up to 3.20% on popular benchmarks, while improving training efficiency.
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• Abstract: Mapping clinical documents to standardised clinical vocabularies is an important task, as it provides structured data for information retrieval and analysis, which is essential to clinical research, hospital administration and improving patient care. However, manual coding is both difficult and time-consuming, making it impractical at scale. Automated coding can potentially alleviate this burden, improving the availability and accuracy of structured clinical data. The task is difficult to automate, as it requires mapping to high-dimensional and long-tailed target spaces, such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). While external knowledge sources have been readily utilised to enhance output code representation, the use of external resources for representing the input documents has been underexplored. In this work, we compute a structured representation of the input documents, making use of document-level knowledge graphs (KGs) that provide a comprehensive structured view of a patient's condition. The resulting knowledge graph efficiently represents the patient-centred input documents with 23\% of the original text while retaining 90\% of the information. We assess the effectiveness of this graph for automated ICD-9 coding by integrating it into the state-of-the-art ICD coding architecture PLM-ICD. Our experiments yield improved Macro-F1 scores by up to 3.20\% on popular benchmarks, while improving training efficiency. We attribute this improvement to different types of entities and relationships in the KG, and demonstrate the improved explainability potential of the approach over the text-only baseline.

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