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cs.CL2025

Clinical Document Metadata Extraction: A Scoping Review

Kurt Miller, Qiuhao Lu, William Hersh +4

Clinical document metadata, such as document type, structure, author role, medical specialty, and encounter setting, is essential for accurate interpretation of information capture…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Memorization in Large Language Models in Medicine: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Implications

Anran Li, Lingfei Qian, Mengmeng Du +18

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in medicine, with many studies adapting them through continued pre-training or fine-tuning on medical data to e…

cs.CL2025

Synthesized Annotation Guidelines are Knowledge-Lite Boosters for Clinical Information Extraction

Enshuo Hsu, Martin Ugbala, Krishna Kumar Kookal +4

Generative information extraction using large language models, particularly through few-shot learning, has become a popular method. Recent studies indicate that providing a detaile…

cs.CL2024★ 30 cited

A Comparative Study of Recent Large Language Models on Generating Hospital Discharge Summaries for Lung Cancer Patients

Yiming Li, Fang Li, Kirk Roberts +3

Generating discharge summaries is a crucial yet time-consuming task in clinical practice, essential for conveying pertinent patient information and facilitating continuity of care.…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Suicide Phenotyping from Clinical Notes in Safety-Net Psychiatric Hospital Using Multi-Label Classification with Pre-Trained Language Models

Zehan Li, Yan Hu, Scott Lane +7

Accurate identification and categorization of suicidal events can yield better suicide precautions, reducing operational burden, and improving care quality in high-acuity psychiatr…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

Robust Privacy Amidst Innovation with Large Language Models Through a Critical Assessment of the Risks

Yao-Shun Chuang, Atiquer Rahman Sarkar, Yu-Chun Hsu +2

This study examines integrating EHRs and NLP with large language models (LLMs) to improve healthcare data management and patient care. It focuses on using advanced models to create…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

Leveraging Large Language Models for Knowledge-free Weak Supervision in Clinical Natural Language Processing

Enshuo Hsu, Kirk Roberts

The performance of deep learning-based natural language processing systems is based on large amounts of labeled training data which, in the clinical domain, are not easily availabl…

cs.CL2024★ 40 cited

Relation Extraction Using Large Language Models: A Case Study on Acupuncture Point Locations

Yiming Li, Xueqing Peng, Jianfu Li +6

In acupuncture therapy, the accurate location of acupoints is essential for its effectiveness. The advanced language understanding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like…

cs.CL2024★ 35 cited

De-identification is not enough: a comparison between de-identified and synthetic clinical notes

Atiquer Rahman Sarkar, Yao-Shun Chuang, Noman Mohammed +1

For sharing privacy-sensitive data, de-identification is commonly regarded as adequate for safeguarding privacy. Synthetic data is also being considered as a privacy-preserving alt…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Use GPT-J Prompt Generation with RoBERTa for NER Models on Diagnosis Extraction of Periodontal Diagnosis from Electronic Dental Records

Yao-Shun Chuang, Xiaoqian Jiang, Chun-Teh Lee +4

This study explored the usability of prompt generation on named entity recognition (NER) tasks and the performance in different settings of the prompt. The prompt generation by GPT…

cs.CL2023★ 57 cited

AE-GPT: Using Large Language Models to Extract Adverse Events from Surveillance Reports-A Use Case with Influenza Vaccine Adverse Events

Yiming Li, Jianfu Li, Jianping He +1

Though Vaccines are instrumental in global health, mitigating infectious diseases and pandemic outbreaks, they can occasionally lead to adverse events (AEs). Recently, Large Langua…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Text Classification of Cancer Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria

Yumeng Yang, Soumya Jayaraj, Ethan B Ludmir +1

Automatic identification of clinical trials for which a patient is eligible is complicated by the fact that trial eligibility is stated in natural language. A potential solution to…

cs.CL2023★ 60 cited

Identifying and Extracting Rare Disease Phenotypes with Large Language Models

Cathy Shyr, Yan Hu, Paul A. Harris +1

Rare diseases (RDs) are collectively common and affect 300 million people worldwide. Accurate phenotyping is critical for informing diagnosis and treatment, but RD phenotypes are o…

cs.CL2023★ 260 cited

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.CL2023★ 172 cited

Benchmarking large language models for biomedical natural language processing applications and recommendations

Qingyu Chen, Yan Hu, Xueqing Peng +18

The rapid growth of biomedical literature poses challenges for manual knowledge curation and synthesis. Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) automates the process. While…

cs.CL2023★ 30 cited

Large Language Models for Healthcare Data Augmentation: An Example on Patient-Trial Matching

Jiayi Yuan, Ruixiang Tang, Xiaoqian Jiang +1

The process of matching patients with suitable clinical trials is essential for advancing medical research and providing optimal care. However, current approaches face challenges s…

cs.CL2022★ 60 cited

Associations Between Natural Language Processing (NLP) Enriched Social Determinants of Health and Suicide Death among US Veterans

Avijit Mitra, Richeek Pradhan, Rachel D Melamed +8

Importance: Social determinants of health (SDOH) are known to be associated with increased risk of suicidal behaviors, but few studies utilized SDOH from unstructured electronic he…

cs.CL2022★ 18 cited

Automated Identification of Eviction Status from Electronic Health Record Notes

Zonghai Yao, Jack Tsai, Weisong Liu +4

Objective: Evictions are important social and behavioral determinants of health. Evictions are associated with a cascade of negative events that can lead to unemployment, housing i…

cs.CL2021★ 63 cited

Deep learning-based NLP Data Pipeline for EHR Scanned Document Information Extraction

Enshuo Hsu, Ioannis Malagaris, Yong-Fang Kuo +2

Scanned documents in electronic health records (EHR) have been a challenge for decades, and are expected to stay in the foreseeable future. Current approaches for processing often…

cs.CL2021★ 8 cited

COVID-19 Smart Chatbot Prototype for Patient Monitoring

Hannah Lei, Weiqi Lu, Alan Ji +4

Many COVID-19 patients developed prolonged symptoms after the infection, including fatigue, delirium, and headache. The long-term health impact of these conditions is still not cle…

cs.CL2021★ 10 cited

Generalized and Transferable Patient Language Representation for Phenotyping with Limited Data

Yuqi Si, Elmer V Bernstam, Kirk Roberts

The paradigm of representation learning through transfer learning has the potential to greatly enhance clinical natural language processing. In this work, we propose a multi-task p…

cs.CL2020

Leveraging Spatial Information in Radiology Reports for Ischemic Stroke Phenotyping

Surabhi Datta, Shekhar Khanpara, Roy F. Riascos +1

Classifying fine-grained ischemic stroke phenotypes relies on identifying important clinical information. Radiology reports provide relevant information with context to determine s…

cs.CL2020

RadLex Normalization in Radiology Reports

Surabhi Datta, Jordan Godfrey-Stovall, Kirk Roberts

Radiology reports have been widely used for extraction of various clinically significant information about patients' imaging studies. However, limited research has focused on stand…

cs.CL2020★ 68 cited

COVID-19 SignSym: a fast adaptation of a general clinical NLP tool to identify and normalize COVID-19 signs and symptoms to OMOP common data model

Jingqi Wang, Noor Abu-el-rub, Josh Gray +8

The COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world rapidly, infecting millions of people. An efficient tool that can accurately recognize important clinical concepts of COVID-19 from fre…