Czech medical coding assistant based on transformer networks

Ladislav Lenc, Jirí Martínek, Josef Baloun, Pavel Pribán, Martin Prantl, Stephen Eugene Taylor, Pavel Král, Jirí Kylis

Abstract: Highlights•Design and implementation of an Automatic Medical Coding Assistant for prediction of diagnosis codes (ICD) in the Czech language.•Proposal and evaluation of several transformer-based models for ICD coding with a relatively few training parameters.•Obtaining new state-of-the-art results in ICD coding task on Czech data.