CoLa-ICD is a knowledge‑enhanced framework designed to improve automatic medical coding of ICD codes in long, imbalanced clinical documents. It enriches ICD labels with external terms, models dependencies among related codes, and strengthens the alignment between label semantics and clinical evidence, particularly for rare codes. Experiments demonstrate that CoLa-ICD achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance in AUC, F1, and P@k, with larger gains in larger and sparser label spaces.
By Yihang Cheng, Veronica Liesaputra, Andrew Trotman
Automatic medical coding assigns ICD codes to clinical notes, but it remains challenging due to long documents, imbalanced label distributions, and diverse terms. These challenges are especially sever...
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