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Publications (12)

cs.CL2024

Detecting Reddit Users with Depression Using a Hybrid Neural Network SBERT-CNN

Ziyi Chen, Ren Yang, Sunyang Fu +3

Depression is a widespread mental health issue, affecting an estimated 3.8% of the global population. It is also one of the main contributors to disability worldwide. Recently it i…

cs.CL2024

A Framework for Human Evaluation of Large Language Models in Healthcare Derived from Literature Review

Thomas Yu Chow Tam, Sonish Sivarajkumar, Sumit Kapoor +12

With generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), continuing to make inroads in healthcare, it is critical to supplement traditional automate…

cs.CY2026

Agentic AI Enhances Physician Trust in Clinical Decision Making

Zhiling Yan, Zhe Fang, David J King +10

Medical AI has shifted from reasoning to agentic AI, a new paradigm that autonomously invokes external tools during reasoning, rendering intermediate reasoning steps and tool outpu…

cs.AI2025

An Agentic Model Context Protocol Framework for Medical Concept Standardization

Jaerong Ahn, Andrew Wen, Nan Wang +4

The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model (CDM) provides a standardized representation of heterogeneous health data to support large-scale, multi-inst…

cs.CL2022

An Open Natural Language Processing Development Framework for EHR-based Clinical Research: A case demonstration using the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)

Sijia Liu, Andrew Wen, Liwei Wang +28

While we pay attention to the latest advances in clinical natural language processing (NLP), we can notice some resistance in the clinical and translational research community to a…

cs.CY2023

Systematic Design and Evaluation of Social Determinants of Health Ontology (SDoHO)

Yifang Dang, Fang Li, Xinyue Hu +11

Social determinants of health (SDoH) have a significant impact on health outcomes and well-being. Addressing SDoH is the key to reducing healthcare inequalities and transforming a…

cs.IR2020

How Good is Artificial Intelligence at Automatically Answering Consumer Questions Related to Alzheimer's Disease?

Krishna B. Soundararajan, Sunyang Fu, Luke A. Carlson +4

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, comprising 60-80% of cases. There were an estimated 5.8 million Americans living with Alzheimer's dementia in 2019, an…

cs.CL2021

Neural Language Models with Distant Supervision to Identify Major Depressive Disorder from Clinical Notes

Bhavani Singh Agnikula Kshatriya, Nicolas A Nunez, Manuel Gardea- Resendez +6

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder that is associated with significant healthcare burden worldwide. Phenotyping of MDD can help early diagnosis and…

cs.AI2026

Digital Twin AI: Opportunities and Challenges from Large Language Models to World Models

Rong Zhou, Dongping Chen, Zihan Jia +24

Digital twins, as precise digital representations of physical systems, have evolved from passive simulation tools into intelligent and autonomous entities through the integration o…

cs.IR2020

Clinical Concept Extraction: a Methodology Review

Sunyang Fu, David Chen, Huan He +10

Background Concept extraction, a subdomain of natural language processing (NLP) with a focus on extracting concepts of interest, has been adopted to computationally extract clinica…

cs.CL2024

BiomedGPT: A Generalist Vision-Language Foundation Model for Diverse Biomedical Tasks

Kai Zhang, Rong Zhou, Eashan Adhikarla +20

Traditional biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) models, designed for specific tasks or modalities, often exhibit limited flexibility in real-world deployment and struggle to ut…

cs.IR2018

MedSTS: A Resource for Clinical Semantic Textual Similarity

Yanshan Wang, Naveed Afzal, Sunyang Fu +4

The wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has enabled a wide range of applications leveraging EHR data. However, the meaningful use of EHR data largely depends on our a…