ICD Code

ICD codes are standardized classifications of diseases and procedures, crucial for healthcare data management, billing, and research. Current research focuses on automating the assignment of these codes to patient records using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, employing various architectures such as transformers, recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and graph neural networks (GNNs), often incorporating retrieval-based methods and attention mechanisms to improve accuracy, especially for less frequent codes. This automation holds significant potential to improve efficiency, reduce errors, and facilitate large-scale analysis of healthcare data, ultimately impacting clinical practice, public health surveillance, and medical research.