CodiEsp: Clinical Case Coding in Spanish Shared Task (eHealth CLEF 2020)

CodiEsp represents the first effort to promote the development and evaluation of automatic clinical coding systems for medical documents in Spanish. Clinical coding requires the analysis and transformation of medical narratives into a structured or coded format using internationally recognized classification systems like ICD-10. These codes represent medical diagnoses and procedures.

CodiEsp is structured into three different tasks, two of them directly related to the two main branches of ICD-10 terminology. Moreover, to improve systems’ acceptance, usefulness and practical integration into clinical coding support applications, results must be understandable, traceable to human-interpretable evidence sources and transparent. To that extent, in addition to two traditional coding subtasks, the CodiEsp shared task proposes a novel subtask on Explainable/Interpretable AI consisting in recognizing the correct clinical codes and returning the corresponding evidence text supporting the code assignment.