Classification of Medical Data using Character-level CNN

Abstract

It is necessary to handle an enormous amount of electronic data in medical practice. Therefore, a support system using information technology is desired to analyze the data. In this paper, we propose a preliminary system using character-level convolutional neural networks in order to improve the classification performance of text data on medical practice. The effectiveness of the proposed system is confirmed by the testbed called the NTCIR-13 MedWeb task [15].