De-identification of Emergency Medical Records in French: Survey and Comparison of State-of-the-Art Automated Systems

Auteurs-es

  • Loick Bourdois University of Bordeaux - BPH INSERM U1219
  • Marta Avalos University of Bordeaux - BPH INSERM U1219 - INRIA SISTM https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5471-2615
  • Gabrielle Chenais University of Bordeaux - BPH INSERM U1219
  • Frantz Thiessard University of Bordeaux - BPH INSERM U1219
  • Philippe Revel University of Bordeaux - BPH INSERM U1219 - University Hospital of Bordeaux, Pole of Emergency Medicine
  • Cedric Gil-Jardine University of Bordeaux - BPH INSERM U1219 - University Hospital of Bordeaux, Pole of Emergency Medicine
  • Emmanuel Lagarde University of Bordeaux - BPH INSERM U1219 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8031-7400

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.v34i1.128480

Mots-clés :

Healthcare Informatics, Applied Natural Language Processing, Protected health information, Low-resource languages, Pre-training, NER, Transformers, French, Emergency room, Injury epidemiology

Résumé

In France, structured data from emergency room (ER) visits are aggregated at the national level to build a syndromic surveillance system for several health events. For visits motivated by a traumatic event, information on the causes are stored in free-text clinical notes. To exploit these data, an automated de-identification system guaranteeing protection of privacy is required.
In this study we review available de-identification tools to de-identify free-text clinical documents in French. A key point is how to overcome the resource barrier that hampers NLP applications in languages other than English. We compare rule-based, named entity recognition, new Transformer-based deep learning and hybrid systems using, when required, a fine-tuning set of 30,000 unlabeled clinical notes. The evaluation is performed on a test set of 3,000 manually annotated notes.
Hybrid systems, combining capabilities in complementary tasks, show the best performance. This work is a first step in the foundation of a national surveillance system based on the exhaustive collection of ER visits reports for automated trauma monitoring.

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Publié-e

2021-04-18

Comment citer

Bourdois, L., Avalos, M., Chenais, G., Thiessard, F., Revel, P., Gil-Jardine, C., & Lagarde, E. (2021). De-identification of Emergency Medical Records in French: Survey and Comparison of State-of-the-Art Automated Systems. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, 34. https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.v34i1.128480

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Special Track: AI in Healthcare Informatics