Predicting Medical Specialities from Transcripts: A Complete Walkthrough using ULMFiT

I explain how I utilised the ULMFiT approach in a step-by-step manner in this NLP task to predict medical specialities from patients’ transcripts

Introduction

The problem of predicting one’s illnesses wrongly through self-diagnosis in medicine is very real. In a report by the Telegraph, nearly one in four self-diagnose instead of visiting the doctor. Out of those who misdiagnose, nearly half have misdiagnosed their illness wrongly. While there could be multiple root causes …

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