Classification in psychiatry: ICD–10 v. DSM–IV

Classification of risk in psychiatry.

Psychiatric risk-assessments generally quantify risk using broad, categorical, indicators (e.g., high-risk, low-risk). We examined reliability of such indicators when applied by mental-health professionals. Four versions of a questionnaire were used, each specifying a different clinical outcome along with a range of different probabilities at which that outcome might occur. Respondents classifi...

A context for classification in child psychiatry.

OBJECTIVE To provide a context for classification in child psychiatry over last 45 years including debate over different approaches. METHOD The context for classification of child psychiatric disorders has changed drastically since the introduction of categorical classification and the multi-axial formulation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and the International Classification ...

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Fusion Methods for ICD10 Code Classification of Death Certificates in Multilingual Corpora

In this working notes paper, we present our methodology and the results for Task 1 of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2017. This benchmark addresses information extraction in written text with focus on unexplored languages corpora, specifically English and French. The goal is to automatically assign codes (ICD10) to text content of death certificates. Our approach is focused on fusion methods i...

GALEN Based Formal Representation of ICD10

OBJECTIVES The main objective is to create a knowledge-intensive coding support tool for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10), which is based on formal representation of ICD10 categories. Beyond this task the resulting ontology could be reused in various ways. Decidability is an important issue for computer-assisted coding; consequently the ontology should be represented in desc...