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most citedSnorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision

786 citations · 1.7k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.AI2026

A Living Benchmark for Information Retrieval from Electronic Health Records

Jordan L. Cahoon, Chloe O. Stanwyck, Sulaiman Somani +23

Large language model (LLM)-based clinical assistants are increasingly being integrated into electronic health record (EHR) systems, transforming how clinicians retrieve and synthes…

cs.HC2026

"I Know Where to Look," But Does the LLM? Charting the Gaps Between Clinical Expert Needs and Unstructured Data Abstraction Tools

Venkatesh Sivaraman, Rigney Turnham, George Bonano +16

Clinical data abstraction, the process of distilling structured information from patient records, plays a key role in advancing knowledge about diseases such as cancer. Information…

cs.CL2025★ 10 cited

MedHELM: Holistic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Medical Tasks

Suhana Bedi, Hejie Cui, Miguel Fuentes +78

While large language models (LLMs) achieve near-perfect scores on medical licensing exams, these evaluations inadequately reflect the complexity and diversity of real-world clinica…

cs.AI2025

TIMER: Temporal Instruction Modeling and Evaluation for Longitudinal Clinical Records

Hejie Cui, Alyssa Unell, Bowen Chen +4

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as promising tools for assisting in medical tasks, yet processing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) presents unique challenges due to their…

cs.CL2023★ 19 cited

MedAlign: A Clinician-Generated Dataset for Instruction Following with Electronic Medical Records

Scott L. Fleming, Alejandro Lozano, William J. Haberkorn +27

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow natural language instructions with human-level fluency suggests many opportunities in healthcare to reduce administrative burd…

cs.LG2023★ 20 cited

EHRSHOT: An EHR Benchmark for Few-Shot Evaluation of Foundation Models

Michael Wornow, Rahul Thapa, Ethan Steinberg +2

While the general machine learning (ML) community has benefited from public datasets, tasks, and models, the progress of ML in healthcare has been hampered by a lack of such shared…

cs.LG2023★ 12 cited

The Shaky Foundations of Clinical Foundation Models: A Survey of Large Language Models and Foundation Models for EMRs

Michael Wornow, Yizhe Xu, Rahul Thapa +6

The successes of foundation models such as ChatGPT and AlphaFold have spurred significant interest in building similar models for electronic medical records (EMRs) to improve patie…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

BigBIO: A Framework for Data-Centric Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Jason Alan Fries, Leon Weber, Natasha Seelam +40

Training and evaluating language models increasingly requires the construction of meta-datasets --diverse collections of curated data with clear provenance. Natural language prompt…

cs.LG2022★ 19 cited

Language Models in the Loop: Incorporating Prompting into Weak Supervision

Ryan Smith, Jason A. Fries, Braden Hancock +1

We propose a new strategy for applying large pre-trained language models to novel tasks when labeled training data is limited. Rather than apply the model in a typical zero-shot or…

cs.LG2022★ 21 cited

PromptSource: An Integrated Development Environment and Repository for Natural Language Prompts

Stephen H. Bach, Victor Sanh, Zheng-Xin Yong +24

PromptSource is a system for creating, sharing, and using natural language prompts. Prompts are functions that map an example from a dataset to a natural language input and target…

eess.IV2021★ 24 cited

RadFusion: Benchmarking Performance and Fairness for Multimodal Pulmonary Embolism Detection from CT and EHR

Yuyin Zhou, Shih-Cheng Huang, Jason Alan Fries +8

Despite the routine use of electronic health record (EHR) data by radiologists to contextualize clinical history and inform image interpretation, the majority of deep learning arch…

cs.LG2021★ 563 cited

Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization

Victor Sanh, Albert Webson, Colin Raffel +38

Large language models have recently been shown to attain reasonable zero-shot generalization on a diverse set of tasks (Brown et al., 2020). It has been hypothesized that this is a…

cs.CL2020★ 99 cited

Ontology-driven weak supervision for clinical entity classification in electronic health records

Jason A. Fries, Ethan Steinberg, Saelig Khattar +4

In the electronic health record, using clinical notes to identify entities such as disorders and their temporality (e.g. the order of an event relative to a time index) can inform…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

The accuracy vs. coverage trade-off in patient-facing diagnosis models

Anitha Kannan, Jason Alan Fries, Eric Kramer +3

A third of adults in America use the Internet to diagnose medical concerns, and online symptom checkers are increasingly part of this process. These tools are powered by diagnosis…

cs.CY2019

Medical device surveillance with electronic health records

Alison Callahan, Jason A Fries, Christopher Ré +4

Post-market medical device surveillance is a challenge facing manufacturers, regulatory agencies, and health care providers. Electronic health records are valuable sources of real…

cs.LG2018★ 5 cited

Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Workshop at NeurIPS 2018

Natalia Antropova, Andrew L. Beam, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones +15

This volume represents the accepted submissions from the Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) workshop at the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018, held…

cs.LG2017★ 786 cited

Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision

Alexander Ratner, Stephen H. Bach, Henry Ehrenberg +3

Labeling training data is increasingly the largest bottleneck in deploying machine learning systems. We present Snorkel, a first-of-its-kind system that enables users to train stat…

stat.ML2017★ 2 cited

ShortFuse: Biomedical Time Series Representations in the Presence of Structured Information

Madalina Fiterau, Suvrat Bhooshan, Jason Fries +5

In healthcare applications, temporal variables that encode movement, health status and longitudinal patient evolution are often accompanied by rich structured information such as d…

cs.CL2017★ 89 cited

SwellShark: A Generative Model for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition without Labeled Data

Jason Fries, Sen Wu, Alex Ratner +1

We present SwellShark, a framework for building biomedical named entity recognition (NER) systems quickly and without hand-labeled data. Our approach views biomedical resources lik…

cs.CL2016

Brundlefly at SemEval-2016 Task 12: Recurrent Neural Networks vs. Joint Inference for Clinical Temporal Information Extraction

Jason Alan Fries

We submitted two systems to the SemEval-2016 Task 12: Clinical TempEval challenge, participating in Phase 1, where we identified text spans of time and event expressions in clinica…