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Improving the Factual Accuracy of Abstractive Clinical Text Summarization using Multi-Objective Optimization
Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications
  • Amanuel Alambo, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Tanvi Banerjee, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Mia Cajita
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-11-2022
Identifier/URL
136361427 (Orcid)
Disciplines
Abstract

While there has been recent progress in abstractive summarization as applied to different domains including news articles, scientific articles, and blog posts, the application of these techniques to clinical text summarization has been limited. This is primarily due to the lack of large-scale training data and the messy/unstructured nature of clinical notes as opposed to other domains where massive training data come in structured or semi -structured form. Further, one of the least explored and critical components of clinical text summarization is factual accuracy of clinical summaries. This is specifically crucial in the healthcare domain, cardiology in particular, where an accurate summary generation that preserves the facts in the source notes is critical to the well-being of a patient. In this study, we propose a framework for improving the factual accuracy of abstractive summarization of clinical text using knowledge-guided multi-objective optimization. We propose to jointly optimize three cost functions in our proposed architecture during training: generative loss, entity loss and knowledge loss and evaluate the proposed architecture on 1) clinical notes of patients with heart failure (HF), which we collect for this study; and 2) two benchmark datasets, Indiana University Chest X-ray collection (IU X-Ray), and MIMIC-CXR, that are publicly available. We experiment with three transformer encoder-decoder architectures and demonstrate that optimizing different loss functions leads to improved performance in terms of entity-level factual accuracy.

Comments
Accepted by the 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
DOI
10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871798
Citation Information
Amanuel Alambo, Tanvi Banerjee, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan and Mia Cajita. "Improving the Factual Accuracy of Abstractive Clinical Text Summarization using Multi-Objective Optimization" (2022) p. 1615 - 1618 ISSN: 2694-0604
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tanvi-banerjee/81/