CLEF-2020 CodiEsp: Clinical Case Coding Shared Task (eHealth CLEF 2020)

**** Call for Participation CodiEsp: Clinical Case Coding Task (eHealth
CLEF 2020) ****




*CodiEsp (eHealth CLEF– Multilingual Information Extraction) Shared Task on
automatic assignment of ICD10 codes (procedures, diagnosis) track at CLEF
2020 *

http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp <http://temu.bsc.es/meddocan>



Plan TL Award for the CodiEsp Track





The CodiEsp sub-tracks:



*1.CodiEsp Diagnosis Coding sub-task (CodiEsp-D)*: will require automatic
ICD10-CM [CIE10 Diagnóstico] code assignment.

*2.CodiEsp Procedure Coding sub-task (CodiEsp-P):* will require automatic
ICD10-PCS [CIE10 Procedimiento] code assignment.

*3.CodiEsp Explainable AI Subtask (CodiEsp-X).* Systems are required to
submit the reference to the predicted codes (both ICD10-CM and ICD10-PCS).



*Task description*

Clinical coding consists in the transformation (or classification) of
medical texts written by clinicians into a structured or coded format using
internationally recognized class codes. These codes describe a patient’s
diagnosis or treatment. This transformation is critical for standardizing
clinical records; enable aetiology studies, monitor health trends,
epidemiology studies, clinical research, decision-making or even
re-imbursement.



Due to the importance of this process, there are now even specialized
education programs and professional occupations of persons employed as
clinical coders or medical records technicians.





As part of the eHealth CLEF (http://clef-ehealth.org) Multilingual
Information Extraction Shared Task we organize* CodiEsp: Clinical Case
Coding Task (http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp <http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp>). *This
task will address the automatic extraction of chemical, drug, gene/protein
mentions from clinical case studies written in Spanish.



Participant systems have to automatically assign ICD10 codes (CIE-10, in
Spanish) to clinical case documents, being evaluated against manually
generated ICD10 codifications.



In addition to the Spanish data we will also include training, development
and test set documents automatically translated into English.



We foresee that this task will be influential not only in terms of
determining the most competitive approaches which might range from
sophisticated term look-up to multi-class document classification systems
using machine learning approaches.



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*Participation and useful info*

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1. CodiEsp web, info & detailed description: http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/

2. Registration for CodiEsp (Multilingual Information Extraction eHealth
track): http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/index.php/2019/09/19/registration/

3. Training and development set:
https://zenodo.org/record/3633048#.XjRNut-YU5k

4. Additional training resources:
https://zenodo.org/record/3606626#.XhyWLN-YU5k



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*Main CodiEsp Track organizers *

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·  *Martin Krallinger*, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

·  *Antonio Miranda*, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

·  *Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre*, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

·  *Marta** Villegs*, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.



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*Important Dates*

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Jan 13              Train, development and additional training resources
set release (Spanish)

February 12    Train, development set release (English machine translation)

May 3              End of evaluation

May 5              Results notified

May  24           Paper submission

Jun 28              Camera-ready paper submission

Sep 22-25        Conference (Thessaloniki, Greece)







Best regards,



            Martin Krallinger



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Martin Krallinger, Dr.
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Head of Biological Text Mining Unit
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
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Oficina Técnica de sanidad del Plan TL
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