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most citedOpportunities and Challenges for ChatGPT and Large Language Models in Biomedicine and Health

372 citations · 1.8k across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

eess.IV2025

AMD-Mamba: A Phenotype-Aware Multi-Modal Framework for Robust AMD Prognosis

Puzhen Wu, Mingquan Lin, Qingyu Chen +4

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss, making effective prognosis crucial for timely intervention. In this work, we propose AMD-Mamb…

cs.CL2024

MedCalc-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models for Medical Calculations

Nikhil Khandekar, Qiao Jin, Guangzhi Xiong +14

As opposed to evaluating computation and logic-based reasoning, current benchmarks for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in medicine are primarily focused on question-answeri…

cs.CL2024

AgentMD: Empowering Language Agents for Risk Prediction with Large-Scale Clinical Tool Learning

Qiao Jin, Zhizheng Wang, Yifan Yang +8

Clinical calculators play a vital role in healthcare by offering accurate evidence-based predictions for various purposes such as prognosis. Nevertheless, their widespread utilizat…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

PubTator 3.0: an AI-powered Literature Resource for Unlocking Biomedical Knowledge

Chih-Hsuan Wei, Alexis Allot, Po-Ting Lai +7

PubTator 3.0 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/pubtator3/) is a biomedical literature resource using state-of-the-art AI techniques to offer semantic and relation searches for…

cs.IR2023★ 167 cited

MedCPT: Contrastive Pre-trained Transformers with Large-scale PubMed Search Logs for Zero-shot Biomedical Information Retrieval

Qiao Jin, Won Kim, Qingyu Chen +4

Information retrieval (IR) is essential in biomedical knowledge acquisition and clinical decision support. While recent progress has shown that language model encoders perform bett…

cs.CL2023

BioREx: Improving Biomedical Relation Extraction by Leveraging Heterogeneous Datasets

Po-Ting Lai, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Ling Luo +2

Biomedical relation extraction (RE) is the task of automatically identifying and characterizing relations between biomedical concepts from free text. RE is a central task in biomed…

cs.CY2023★ 372 cited

Opportunities and Challenges for ChatGPT and Large Language Models in Biomedicine and Health

Shubo Tian, Qiao Jin, Lana Yeganova +11

ChatGPT has drawn considerable attention from both the general public and domain experts with its remarkable text generation capabilities. This has subsequently led to the emergenc…

cs.CL2023★ 174 cited

GeneGPT: Augmenting Large Language Models with Domain Tools for Improved Access to Biomedical Information

Qiao Jin, Yifan Yang, Qingyu Chen +1

While large language models (LLMs) have been successfully applied to various tasks, they still face challenges with hallucinations. Augmenting LLMs with domain-specific tools such…

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.CV2023★ 2 cited

Interpretable Medical Image Visual Question Answering via Multi-Modal Relationship Graph Learning

Xinyue Hu, Lin Gu, Kazuma Kobayashi +6

Medical visual question answering (VQA) aims to answer clinically relevant questions regarding input medical images. This technique has the potential to improve the efficiency of m…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

Bioformer: an efficient transformer language model for biomedical text mining

Li Fang, Qingyu Chen, Chih-Hsuan Wei +2

Pretrained language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing (NLP) ta…

cs.CL2022★ 76 cited

AIONER: All-in-one scheme-based biomedical named entity recognition using deep learning

Ling Luo, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Po-Ting Lai +3

Biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) seeks to automatically recognize biomedical entities in natural language text, serving as a necessary foundation for downstream text mi…

cs.LG2022

Comprehensively identifying Long Covid articles with human-in-the-loop machine learning

Robert Leaman, Rezarta Islamaj, Alexis Allot +3

A significant percentage of COVID-19 survivors experience ongoing multisystemic symptoms that often affect daily living, a condition known as Long Covid or post-acute-sequelae of S…

cs.DL2022

LitCovid in 2022: an information resource for the COVID-19 literature

Qingyu Chen, Alexis Allot, Robert Leaman +5

LitCovid (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/), first launched in February 2020, is a first-of-its-kind literature hub for tracking up-to-date published research on…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Assigning Species Information to Corresponding Genes by a Sequence Labeling Framework

Ling Luo, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Po-Ting Lai +3

The automatic assignment of species information to the corresponding genes in a research article is a critically important step in the gene normalization task, whereby a gene menti…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

LitMC-BERT: transformer-based multi-label classification of biomedical literature with an application on COVID-19 literature curation

Qingyu Chen, Jingcheng Du, Alexis Allot +1

The rapid growth of biomedical literature poses a significant challenge for curation and interpretation. This has become more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. LitCovid, a lite…

cs.DL2022★ 3 cited

Multi-label classification for biomedical literature: an overview of the BioCreative VII LitCovid Track for COVID-19 literature topic annotations

Qingyu Chen, Alexis Allot, Robert Leaman +35

The COVID-19 pandemic has been severely impacting global society since December 2019. Massive research has been undertaken to understand the characteristics of the virus and design…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

A Privacy-Preserving Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Clinical Text Analysis

Qiyuan An, Ruijiang Li, Lin Gu +5

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) generally aligns the unlabeled target domain data to the distribution of the source domain to mitigate the distribution shift problem. The stan…

cs.CV2020

Multi-modal, multi-task, multi-attention (M3) deep learning detection of reticular pseudodrusen: towards automated and accessible classification of age-related macular degeneration

Qingyu Chen, Tiarnan D. L. Keenan, Alexis Allot +14

Objective Reticular pseudodrusen (RPD), a key feature of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), are poorly detected by human experts on standard color fundus photography (CFP) and…

cs.CL2020★ 66 cited

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Action: Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic with Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Qingyu Chen, Robert Leaman, Alexis Allot +4

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on society, both because of the serious health effects of COVID-19 and because of public health measures implemented to slow its…

cs.DL2020★ 6 cited

Navigating the landscape of COVID-19 research through literature analysis: A bird's eye view

Lana Yeganova, Rezarta Islamaj, Qingyu Chen +8

Timely access to accurate scientific literature in the battle with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is critical. This unprecedented public health risk has motivated research towards u…

eess.IV2020★ 8 cited

Predicting risk of late age-related macular degeneration using deep learning

Yifan Peng, Tiarnan D. Keenan, Qingyu Chen +5

By 2040, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) will affect approximately 288 million people worldwide. Identifying individuals at high risk of progression to late AMD, the sight-t…

cs.CL2020★ 12 cited

An Empirical Study of Multi-Task Learning on BERT for Biomedical Text Mining

Yifan Peng, Qingyu Chen, Zhiyong Lu

Multi-task learning (MTL) has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing applications. In this work, we study a multi-task learning model with multiple decoders on…

cs.SI2020

Citation Cascade and the Evolution of Topic Relevance

Chao Min, Qingyu Chen, Erjia Yan +2

Citation analysis, as a tool for quantitative studies of science, has long emphasized direct citation relations, leaving indirect or high order citations overlooked. However, a ser…