HHH-An-Online-Question-Answering-System-for-Medical-Questions

System description

The system can be divided into two parts. The first part is the knowledge graph question answering and the second part is if the knowledge graph cannot find the answer of the user inputted question, the second part will help to retrieve the top k most related answers by computing the medical question similarity from a medical question answer pair dataset.

Here are some useful reference links.

Knowledge graph establishment refer the following link

https://github.com/liuhuanyong/QASystemOnMedicalKG

Google English words pre-train model: GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin.gz

The pre-train model will be used to load word embedding before training the BiLSTM+Attention model and HBAM model.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7XkCwpI5KDYNlNUTTlSS21pQmM/edit?usp=sharing

Datasets

Medical knowledge dataset collected from the following medical website

https://www.medicinenet.com/medterms-medical-dictionary/article.htm

https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/a-to-z

Model train_dev_test dataset are filter out the medical related questions from Quora question pair dataset.

https://data.quora.com/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs

Medical question and answer pair dataset is referred from the following link.

https://github.com/LasseRegin/medical-question-answer-data

The scale of knowledge graph about 700 diseases. For each disease, there exists symptom, accompany_disease, prevent_way, cure_way and totally 6 entities.

System architecture

Disease symptom entity extraction & User intention recognition

Knowledge graph answer selection

Question_answer_pair_answer_selection

Web GUI manager

Medical Knowledge Graph Establish, GUI and website The main code is based on the following link. You need to run the build_medicalgraph.py to establish the knowledge graph before you use it. Then you may run GUI.py to run the GUI interface. You can also run chatbot_graph.py which will allow you to chat in command. You can also run server.py to start the website and chat. https://github.com/14H034160212/HHH-An-Online-Question-Answering-System-for-Medical-Questions/tree/master/Medical_knowledge_graph_establishment/MedicalKBQA

Models

BERT

https://github.com/google-research/bert

BiLSTM+Attention

https://github.com/likejazz/Siamese-LSTM

https://github.com/LuJunru/Sentences_Pair_Similarity_Calculation_Siamese_LSTM

Siamese Hierarchical BiLSTM Word Attention Manhattan Distance model

AttentionLayer is referred from the following link

https://github.com/uhauha2929/examples/blob/master/Hierarchical%20Attention%20Networks%20.ipynb

Experiment Results

Model eval-accuracy comparison

The total number of medical related data from Quora dataset is nearly 70000, but we randomly pick the 10000 as the (train/dev/test) dataset.

The number distribution of train: dev: test = 6:2:2

Model Average Eval_accuracy by three times Range of change
BERT baseline model 0.7686 (-0.0073, +0.0057)
HBAM model 0.8146 (-0.0082, +0.0098)
Bi-LSTM + Attention model 0.8043 (-0.0103, +0.0062)

Code and data for the Medical Sentence Similarity Calculation Model

Our HBAM [Code] [Data]

Bi-LSTM+Attention [Code] [Data]

MaLSTM [Code] [Data]

Finetuning BERT [Code] [Data]

Installation

conda create -n hhh python=3.6
conda activate hhh
git clone https://github.com/14H034160212/HHH-An-Online-Question-Answering-System-for-Medical-Questions.git
cd HHH-An-Online-Question-Answering-System-for-Medical-Questions
pip install -r requirements.txt

Updates

[08/03/2023] We rewrite code for HBAM and MaLSTM using tensorflow 2.0+ and add tensorboard sentence embedding visualization under branch origin/tensorflow2.

Reference papers

Hierarchical attention networks for document classification

Siamese Recurrent Architectures for Learning Sentence Similarity

Paper link

HHH: An Online Medical Chatbot System based on Knowledge Graph and Hierarchical Bi-Directional Attention

If you want more details about this project, watch our presentation recording, HHH Chatbot web and GUI, HHH web manager backend platform on YouTube.

Citation

@inproceedings{bao2020hhh,
  title={HHH: An Online Medical Chatbot System based on Knowledge Graph and Hierarchical Bi-Directional Attention},
  author={Bao, Qiming and Ni, Lin and Liu, Jiamou},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference},
  pages={1--10},
  year={2020}
}

Acknowledgement

This research was supported by summer scholarship funding from the Precision Driven Health research partnership.

Other links

MANDY: Towards a Smart Primary Care Chatbot Application