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Table 6 Cases from the institutional classification tasks where the results of CNN and the rule-based NLP algorithm are different

From: A clinical text classification paradigm using weak supervision and deep representation

Task

Case #

Text Snippets

Gold Standard

Rule-based NLP

CNN

Mayo Clinic Smoking Status Classification

1

…She is a taxi driver and she has never used tobaco products…

Non-smoker

X

Y

2

…No smoking after age XXX…

Smoker

X

Y

3

…Tobacco current use: No never used any...

Non-smoker

Y

X

Proximal Femur (Hip) Fracture Classification

1

…Indications: femur fx…Cannulated screw fixation of the right femoral neck…

Proximal Femur fracture

X

Y

2

… Pin fixation across the proximal left femoral neck…

Proximal Femur fracture

X

Y

3

Exam: Sp Cerv*2vw Flex/Ext only Indications: Fx Vertebra Cervical Closed…

Non-Proximal Femur fracture

X

Y

4

Exam: R Major Jnt Asp and/or Inj Indications: R hip inj/marc/steroid; fx femur neck nos closed, pain hip...

Proximal Femur fracture

Y

X

  1. We use Y to indicate the correct extraction result and X otherwise