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most citedA Scoping Review of Natural Language Processing in Addressing Medically Inaccurate Information: Errors, Misinformation, and Hallucination

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cs.CL2026

Mental Health Disorder Detection Beyond Social Media: A Systematic Review of Available Datasets

Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Ana-Maria Bucur, Stevie Chancellor +2

Detecting mental health disorders in a timely manner is an important societal challenge. NLP and machine learning (ML) methods used to assist with detection rely on data collected…

cs.CL2025

Automated Identification of Incidentalomas Requiring Follow-Up: A Multi-Anatomy Evaluation of LLM-Based and Supervised Approaches

Namu Park, Farzad Ahmed, Zhaoyi Sun +6

Objective: To evaluate large language models (LLMs) against supervised baselines for fine-grained, lesion-level detection of incidentalomas requiring follow-up, addressing the limi…

cs.CL2025

Identifying Imaging Follow-Up in Radiology Reports: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional ML and LLM Approaches

Namu Park, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Kevin Lybarger +4

Large language models (LLMs) have shown considerable promise in clinical natural language processing, yet few domain-specific datasets exist to rigorously evaluate their performanc…

cs.CL2025

Spurious Correlations and Beyond: Understanding and Mitigating Shortcut Learning in SDOH Extraction with Large Language Models

Fardin Ahsan Sakib, Ziwei Zhu, Karen Trister Grace +2

Social determinants of health (SDOH) extraction from clinical text is critical for downstream healthcare analytics. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise, they m…

cs.CL2025★ 13 cited

A Scoping Review of Natural Language Processing in Addressing Medically Inaccurate Information: Errors, Misinformation, and Hallucination

Zhaoyi Sun, Wen-Wai Yim, Ozlem Uzuner +2

Objective: This review aims to explore the potential and challenges of using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to detect, correct, and mitigate medically inaccurate information, in…

cs.CL2025

Adapting Biomedical Abstracts into Plain language using Large Language Models

Haritha Gangavarapu, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Kevin Lybarger +2

A vast amount of medical knowledge is available for public use through online health forums, and question-answering platforms on social media. The majority of the population in the…

cs.CL2024

BioMistral-NLU: Towards More Generalizable Medical Language Understanding through Instruction Tuning

Yujuan Velvin Fu, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Namu Park +4

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are fine-tuned on large and diverse instruction-following corpora, and can generalize to new tasks. However, those instruction-tuned LL…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Extracting Social Determinants of Health from Pediatric Patient Notes Using Large Language Models: Novel Corpus and Methods

Yujuan Fu, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Nicholas J Dobbins +7

Social determinants of health (SDoH) play a critical role in shaping health outcomes, particularly in pediatric populations where interventions can have long-term implications. SDo…

cs.CL2024

A Novel Corpus of Annotated Medical Imaging Reports and Information Extraction Results Using BERT-based Language Models

Namu Park, Kevin Lybarger, Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran +5

Medical imaging is critical to the diagnosis, surveillance, and treatment of many health conditions, including oncological, neurological, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal disord…

cs.CL2023

Prompt-based Extraction of Social Determinants of Health Using Few-shot Learning

Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Yujuan Fu, Bin Han +4

Social determinants of health (SDOH) documented in the electronic health record through unstructured text are increasingly being studied to understand how SDOH impacts patient heal…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

MasonNLP+ at SemEval-2023 Task 8: Extracting Medical Questions, Experiences and Claims from Social Media using Knowledge-Augmented Pre-trained Language Models

Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran, Haritha Gangavarapu, Kevin Lybarger +1

In online forums like Reddit, users share their experiences with medical conditions and treatments, including making claims, asking questions, and discussing the effects of treatme…

cs.AI2023

Progress Note Understanding -- Assessment and Plan Reasoning: Overview of the 2022 N2C2 Track 3 Shared Task

Yanjun Gao, Dmitriy Dligach, Timothy Miller +3

Daily progress notes are common types in the electronic health record (EHR) where healthcare providers document the patient's daily progress and treatment plans. The EHR is designe…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Jointly Learning Clinical Entities and Relations with Contextual Language Models and Explicit Context

Paul Barry, Sam Henry, Meliha Yetisgen +2

We hypothesize that explicit integration of contextual information into an Multi-task Learning framework would emphasize the significance of context for boosting performance in joi…