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20232026
most citedEntry-level guide to the use of large language models for medical research

2 citations · 7 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.IR2026

Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation without Taxonomy-based Error Categorization

Gongbo Zhang, Yifan Peng, Chunhua Weng

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the factual accuracy of large language model (LLM) outputs by grounding generation in external knowledge. Recent agentic RAG systems e…

q-bio.QM2026

Autonomous Agent-Orchestrated Digital Twins (AADT): Leveraging the OpenClaw Framework for State Synchronization in Rare Genetic Disorders

Hongzhuo Chen, Zhanliang Wang, Quan M. Nguyen +3

Background: Medical Digital Twins (MDTs) are computational representations of individual patients that integrate clinical, genomic, and physiological data to support diagnosis, tre…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

CPGPrompt: Translating Clinical Guidelines into LLM-Executable Decision Support

Ruiqi Deng, Geoffrey Martin, Tony Wang +6

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) provide evidence-based recommendations for patient care; however, integrating them into Artificial Intelligence (AI) remains challenging. Previo…

cs.CL2025

Scalable Scientific Interest Profiling Using Large Language Models

Yilun Liang, Gongbo Zhang, Edward Sun +6

Research profiles highlight scientists' research focus, enabling talent discovery and collaborations, but are often outdated. Automated, scalable methods are urgently needed to kee…

cs.CL2025

EvidenceOutcomes: a Dataset of Clinical Trial Publications with Clinically Meaningful Outcomes

Yiliang Zhou, Abigail M. Newbury, Gongbo Zhang +4

The fundamental process of evidence extraction and synthesis in evidence-based medicine involves extracting PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) elements from b…

cs.CL2025

Natural Language Processing in Support of Evidence-based Medicine: A Scoping Review

Zihan Xu, Haotian Ma, Gongbo Zhang +3

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is at the forefront of modern healthcare, emphasizing the use of the best available scientific evidence to guide clinical decisions. Due to the sheer…

cs.CL2024

Semi-Supervised Learning from Small Annotated Data and Large Unlabeled Data for Fine-grained PICO Entity Recognition

Fangyi Chen, Gongbo Zhang, Yilu Fang +2

Objective: Extracting PICO elements -- Participants, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcomes -- from clinical trial literature is essential for clinical evidence retrieval, appraisa…

cs.CL2024

A MapReduce Approach to Effectively Utilize Long Context Information in Retrieval Augmented Language Models

Gongbo Zhang, Zihan Xu, Qiao Jin +8

While holding great promise for improving and facilitating healthcare, large language models (LLMs) struggle to produce up-to-date responses on evolving topics due to outdated know…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Entry-level guide to the use of large language models for medical research

Qiao Jin, Nicholas Wan, Robert Leaman +20

Frontier large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-5, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3, Llama 4, and DeepSeek-R1, represent a transformative class of AI tools capable of revolutionizing variou…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Closing the gap between open-source and commercial large language models for medical evidence summarization

Gongbo Zhang, Qiao Jin, Yiliang Zhou +11

Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise in summarizing medical evidence. Most recent studies focus on the application of proprietary LLMs. Using proprietary LLMs introduces…

cs.IR2024

A Span-based Model for Extracting Overlapping PICO Entities from RCT Publications

Gongbo Zhang, Yiliang Zhou, Yan Hu +3

Objectives Extraction of PICO (Populations, Interventions, Comparison, and Outcomes) entities is fundamental to evidence retrieval. We present a novel method PICOX to extract overl…

cs.AI2023★ 2 cited

Leveraging Generative AI for Clinical Evidence Summarization Needs to Ensure Trustworthiness

Gongbo Zhang, Qiao Jin, Denis Jered McInerney +11

Evidence-based medicine promises to improve the quality of healthcare by empowering medical decisions and practices with the best available evidence. The rapid growth of medical ev…