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However, medical data have complex, irregular, and sequential characteristics, making it challenging to measure similarity. Therefore, measuring accurate similarity is a significant problem. Existing similarity measurement studies use supervised learning to calculate the similarity between patients, with similarity measurement studies conducted only on one specific disease. However, it is not realistic to consider only one kind of disease, because other conditions usually accompany it; a study to measure similarity with multiple diseases is needed. This research proposes a convolution neural network-based model that jointly combines feature learning and similarity learning to define similarity in patients with multiple diseases. We used the cohort data from the National Health Insurance Sharing Service of Korea for the experiment. 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