GraD-IBD: Graph Representation Learning from Diagnosis Trajectories for Early Detection of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27799v1
• Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 00:37:38 GMT
• Title: GraD-IBD: Graph Representation Learning from Diagnosis Trajectories for Early Detection of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Abstract summary: We propose GraD-IBD, a graph diagnosis model that reformulates longitudinal ICD trajectories as visit-bucketized, temporally directed graphs.<n>A novel context-aware, time-decay message passing mechanism was developed to capture temporal dependencies while reducing model complexity.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a globally recognized coding system that records diagnostic events during each patient encounter, providing a standardized data foundation for various clinical tasks. However, the irregular and hierarchical nature of ICD code sequences poses challenges for N-D lattice-based sequential modeling methods, leading to overly complex model designs. In this paper, we propose GraD-IBD, a graph diagnosis model that reformulates longitudinal ICD trajectories as visit-bucketized, temporally directed graphs to detect the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A novel context-aware, time-decay message passing mechanism was developed to capture temporal dependencies while reducing model complexity. The experimental results using a real-world clinical dataset demonstrated consistent and robust improvements in IBD detection over state-of-the-art methods, with significant reductions in computational complexity compared to sequential models. These findings highlight the potential of graph representation learning to enable efficient, scalable, and accurate disease risk prediction from longitudinal ICD diagnosis codes.

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