Medical-Event-Data-Standard / Medical-Event-Data-Standard/meds

How do we encode multi-label or sparse task labels?

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Description

In our label schema, if a task is multi-label (e.g., predict all the diagnoses a patient will receive in this stay), how do we want to encode that? What if a task is sparse and multi-label (e.g., predict the max lab value that will be seen for all labs measured in this stay)?

I don't think this is urgent at all, but it is worth contemplating to either capture in documentation or in future versions (or to have a place for catching discussions about it)

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No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reviewing the existing label schema and related documentation, then determine how multi-label and sparse multi-label tasks should be represented; done means the encoding decision is agreed and captured in documentation or a future-version plan.

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