Medical Concept Sorting Based on Machine Learning of Attribute Value Differentiation

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program comprises instructions, which when executed on a processor of a computing device causes the computing device to implement a cognitive medical system and an entity differentiation component, wherein the computer readable program causes the computing device to:

• ingest, by the cognitive medical system, a corpus of medical content, wherein the medical content comprises references to medical entities, and wherein ingesting the corpus comprises performing entity recognition on the medical content to identify the medical entities;
• responsive to the cognitive medical system identifying a medical entity having a plurality of annotations for a same medical entity attribute, determine by the entity differentiation component executing in the data processing system, an ordered set of entity differentiation algorithms, corresponding to the medical entity, for differentiating medical entity attribute values;
• run, by the entity differentiation component, the ordered set of entity differentiation algorithms, in order, on the plurality of annotations for the attribute to generate a ranked list of medical entity attribute values corresponding to the annotations in the plurality of annotations;
• and
• perform, by the cognitive medical system, a cognitive operation on the medical entity based on the ranked list of medical entity attribute values.

A computing device comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one memory comprises instructions, which when executed on the at least one processor of the computing device causes the computing device to implement a cognitive medical system and an entity differentiation component, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to:
• ingest, by the cognitive medical system, a corpus of medical content, wherein the medical content comprises references to medical entities, and wherein ingesting the corpus comprises performing entity recognition on the medical content to identify the medical entities;
• responsive to the cognitive medical system identifying a medical entity having a plurality of annotations for a same medical entity attribute, determine by the entity differentiation component executing in the data processing system, an ordered set of entity differentiation algorithms, corresponding to the medical entity, for differentiating medical entity attribute values;
• run, by the entity differentiation component, the ordered set of entity differentiation algorithms, in order, on the plurality of annotations for the attribute to generate a ranked list of medical entity attribute values corresponding to the annotations in the plurality of annotations;
• and
• perform, by the cognitive medical system, a cognitive operation on the medical entity based on the ranked list of medical entity attribute values.