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Title: Selective Information Extraction Strategies for Cancer Pathology Reports with Convolutional Neural Networks

Abstract

To trust model predictions, it is important to ensure new data scored by the model comes from the same population used for model training. If the model is used to score new data different than the model’s training data, then predictions and model performance metrics cannot be trusted. Identifying and excluding these anomalous data points is an important task when using models in the real world. Traditional machine learning algorithms and classifiers don’t have the capability to abstain in this case. Here we propose a data-novelty detection algorithm for the Convolutional Neural Network classifier, yielding a rejection score for each new data point scored. It is a post-modeling procedure which examines the distribution of convolution filters to determine if the prediction should be trusted. We apply this algorithm to an information extraction model for a natural language text corpus. We evaluated the algorithm performance using a primary cancer site classification model applied to cancer pathology reports. Results demonstrate that the algorithm is an effective way to exclude cancer pathology reports from model scoring when they do not contain the expected information necessary to accurately classify the primary cancer type.


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Yoon, Hong-Jun, Qiu, John X., Christian, Blair, Hinkle, Jacob, Alamudun, Folami, and Tourassi, Georgia. Selective Information Extraction Strategies for Cancer Pathology Reports with Convolutional Neural Networks. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16841-4_9.
Yoon, Hong-Jun, Qiu, John X., Christian, Blair, Hinkle, Jacob, Alamudun, Folami, & Tourassi, Georgia. Selective Information Extraction Strategies for Cancer Pathology Reports with Convolutional Neural Networks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16841-4_9
Yoon, Hong-Jun, Qiu, John X., Christian, Blair, Hinkle, Jacob, Alamudun, Folami, and Tourassi, Georgia. 2019. "Selective Information Extraction Strategies for Cancer Pathology Reports with Convolutional Neural Networks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16841-4_9. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1509553.
@article{osti_1509553,
title = {Selective Information Extraction Strategies for Cancer Pathology Reports with Convolutional Neural Networks},
author = {Yoon, Hong-Jun and Qiu, John X. and Christian, Blair and Hinkle, Jacob and Alamudun, Folami and Tourassi, Georgia},
abstractNote = {To trust model predictions, it is important to ensure new data scored by the model comes from the same population used for model training. If the model is used to score new data different than the model’s training data, then predictions and model performance metrics cannot be trusted. Identifying and excluding these anomalous data points is an important task when using models in the real world. Traditional machine learning algorithms and classifiers don’t have the capability to abstain in this case. Here we propose a data-novelty detection algorithm for the Convolutional Neural Network classifier, yielding a rejection score for each new data point scored. It is a post-modeling procedure which examines the distribution of convolution filters to determine if the prediction should be trusted. We apply this algorithm to an information extraction model for a natural language text corpus. We evaluated the algorithm performance using a primary cancer site classification model applied to cancer pathology reports. Results demonstrate that the algorithm is an effective way to exclude cancer pathology reports from model scoring when they do not contain the expected information necessary to accurately classify the primary cancer type.},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-16841-4_9},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1509553}, journal = {},
issn = {1064-3745},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {4}
}

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