Graph Clustering System for Text-Based Records in a Clinical Pathway

The progressive digitization of medical records has resulted in the accumulation of large amounts of data. Electronic medical data include structured numerical data and unstructured text data. Although text-based medical record processing has been researched, few studies contribute to medical practice. The analysis of unstructured text data can improve medical processes. Hence, this study presents a clustering approach for detecting typical patient's condition from text-based medical record of clinical pathway. In this approach, the sentences in a cluster are merged to generate a "sentence graph" of the cluster after classified feature word by Louvain method. An analysis of real text-based medical records indicates that sentence graphs can represent the medical treatment and patient's condition in a medical process. This method could help the standardization of text-based medical records and the recognition of feature medical processes for improving medical treatment.