no code implementations • 9 Jan 2018 • Imon Banerjee, Michael Francis Gensheimer, Douglas J. Wood, Solomon Henry, Daniel Chang, Daniel L. Rubin
We propose a deep learning model - Probabilistic Prognostic Estimates of Survival in Metastatic Cancer Patients (PPES-Met) for estimating short-term life expectancy (3 months) of the patients by analyzing free-text clinical notes in the electronic medical record, while maintaining the temporal visit sequence.