8 papers
Capture Timing-Attention of Events in Clinical Time Series
Jia Li, Yu Hou, Rui Zhang
The contemporary paradigm of trajectory learning operates fundamentally at the level of group dynamics, systematically reducing individual-level complexity to fit group-level model…
An Underexplored Frontier: Large Language Models for Rare Disease Patient Education and Communication -- A scoping review
Zaifu Zhan, Yu Hou, Kai Yu +4
Rare diseases affect over 300 million people worldwide and are characterized by complex care pathways, limited clinical expertise, and substantial unmet communication needs through…
To Reason or Not to: Selective Chain-of-Thought in Medical Question Answering
Zaifu Zhan, Min Zeng, Shuang Zhou +6
Objective: To improve the efficiency of medical question answering (MedQA) with large language models (LLMs) by avoiding unnecessary reasoning while maintaining accuracy. Methods:…
Benchmarking GPT-5 for biomedical natural language processing
Yu Hou, Zaifu Zhan, Min Zeng +3
Biomedical literature and clinical narratives pose multifaceted challenges for natural language understanding, from precise entity extraction and document synthesis to multi-step d…
Quantized Large Language Models in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: Evaluation and Recommendation
Zaifu Zhan, Shuang Zhou, Min Zeng +6
Large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in biomedical natural language processing, yet their rapid growth in size and computational requirements present a m…
Uncertainty-Aware Large Language Models for Explainable Disease Diagnosis
Shuang Zhou, Jiashuo Wang, Zidu Xu +11
Explainable disease diagnosis, which leverages patient information (e.g., signs and symptoms) and computational models to generate probable diagnoses and reasonings, offers clear c…