Distinguishing between Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using Mental Health Records: a Classification Approach

Zixu Wang, Julia Ive, Sinead Moylett, Christoph Mueller, Rudolf Cardinal, Sumithra Velupillai, John O’Brien, Robert Stewart


Abstract
While Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) is the second most common type of neurodegenerative dementia following Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), it is difficult to distinguish from AD. We propose a method for DLB detection by using mental health record (MHR) documents from a (3-month) period before a patient has been diagnosed with DLB or AD. Our objective is to develop a model that could be clinically useful to differentiate between DLB and AD across datasets from different healthcare institutions. We cast this as a classification task using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), an efficient neural model for text classification. We experiment with different representation models, and explore the features that contribute to model performances. In addition, we apply temperature scaling, a simple but efficient model calibration method, to produce more reliable predictions. We believe the proposed method has important potential for clinical applications using routine healthcare records, and for generalising to other relevant clinical record datasets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to distinguish DLB from AD using mental health records, and to improve the reliability of DLB predictions.
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2020.clinicalnlp-1.19
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Proceedings of the 3rd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
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November
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2020
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Online
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Anna Rumshisky, Kirk Roberts, Steven Bethard, Tristan Naumann
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ClinicalNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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168–177
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.clinicalnlp-1.19
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10.18653/v1/2020.clinicalnlp-1.19
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Zixu Wang, Julia Ive, Sinead Moylett, Christoph Mueller, Rudolf Cardinal, Sumithra Velupillai, John O’Brien, and Robert Stewart. 2020. Distinguishing between Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using Mental Health Records: a Classification Approach. In Proceedings of the 3rd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 168–177, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Distinguishing between Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using Mental Health Records: a Classification Approach (Wang et al., ClinicalNLP 2020)
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