Ex4CDS are explanations (or more precisely justifications) of physicians in the context of clinical decision support. In the course of a larger study, physicians estimated the probability of different clinical outcomes in nephology, namely rejection, graft loss and infections, within the next 90 days. Each estimation had to be justified within a short text - these are our explanations. The explanations were provided in German and have strong similarities to general clinical notes. Our dataset tries to make the following contributions:
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We analyse how humans would provide an explanation/justification for the prediction of clinical outcomes. Using this analysis, we hope to provide useful insights for future explainable automatic decision support systems - with explanations in the form of natural language.
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As the explanations have very strong similarities to clinical text, the annotated text could be used as a useful resource in the context of (German) clinical text processing, covering for instance named entities, relations, negations, temporal information and other aspects.
The data can be downloaded here, and is described in our paper which will be presented at LREC 2022:
Roland Roller, Aljoscha Burchardt, Nils Feldhus, Laura Seiffe, Klemens Budde, Simon Ronicke and Bilgin Osmanodja. An Annotated Corpus of Textual Explanations for Clinical Decision Support. Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marseille, France, 2022. PDF
Moreover if you would like to understand the experimental setup/context in more detail, please have a look for the following two papers:
Roland Roller, Manuel Mayrdorfer, Wiebke Duettmann, Marcel Ganesh Naik, Danilo Schmidt, Fabian Halleck, Patrik Hummel, Aljoscha Burchhardt, Sebastian Möller, Peter Dabrock, Bilgin Osmanodja, Klemens Budde. Evaluation of a clinical decision support system for detection of patients at risk after kidney transplantation. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022. PDF
Roland Roller, Aljoscha Burchhardt, David Samhammer, Simon Ronicke, Wiebke Duettmann, Sven Schmeier, Sebastian Möller, Peter Dabrock, Klemens Budde, Manuel Mayrdorfer, Bilgin Osmanodja. When Performance is not Enough - A Multidisciplinary View on Clinical Decision Support. PLOS ONE 18(4): e0282619, 2023. PDF