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Hypothesis generation in biomedical research has traditionally centered on uncovering hidden relationships within vast scientific literature, often using methods like Literature-Based Discovery (LBD). Despite progress, current approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Fuyi Yang , Chenchen Ye , Mingyu Derek Ma , Yijia Xiao , Matthew Yang , Wei Wang

Medical coding is essential for standardizing clinical data and communication but is often time-consuming and prone to errors. Traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods struggle with automating coding due to the large label…

This paper presents a novel benchmarking framework Dyport for evaluating biomedical hypothesis generation systems. Utilizing curated datasets, our approach tests these systems under realistic conditions, enhancing the relevance of our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ilya Tyagin , Ilya Safro

Medical Question Answering~(medical QA) systems play an essential role in assisting healthcare workers in finding answers to their questions. However, it is not sufficient to merely provide answers by medical QA systems because users might…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Wei Sun , Mingxiao Li , Damien Sileo , Jesse Davis , Marie-Francine Moens

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) holds a crucial role in clinical application. Given suitable medical articles, doctors effectively reduce the incidence of misdiagnoses. Researchers find it efficient to use large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mengzhou Sun , Sendong Zhao , Jianyu Chen , Haochun Wang , Bing Qin

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress across multiple biomedical tasks, including biomedical question answering, lay-language summarization of the biomedical literature, and clinical note…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Deepak Gupta , Dina Demner-Fushman , William Hersh , Steven Bedrick , Kirk Roberts

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are pivotal in clinical practices, yet their retrieval remains a challenge mainly due to semantic gap issues. Recent advancements in dense retrieval offer promising solutions but existing models, both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zhengyun Zhao , Huaiyuan Ying , Yue Zhong , Sheng Yu

This study applies Large Language Models (LLMs) to two foundational Electronic Health Record (EHR) data science tasks: structured data querying (using programmatic languages, Python/Pandas) and information extraction from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Juan Jose Rubio Jan , Jack Wu , Julia Ive

The reliability of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) depends on high-quality data, yet Electronic Health Records are often inconsistent with existing scientific knowledge. Current quality assessments are limited: they either focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Irena Girshovitz , Atai Ambus , Moni Shahar , Ran Gilad-Bachrach

Automatically extracting useful information from electronic medical records along with conducting disease diagnoses is a promising task for both clinical decision support(CDS) and neural language processing(NLP). Most of the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang , Yiran Jiang , Yuxi Sun , Yu-Jin Zhan , Pengcheng Luo

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is central to high-quality care, but remains difficult to implement in fast-paced primary care settings. Physicians face short consultations, increasing patient loads, and lengthy guideline documents that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zongliang Ji , Ziyang Zhang , Xincheng Tan , Matthew Thompson , Anna Goldenberg , Carl Yang , Rahul G. Krishnan , Fan Zhang

Professionals in modern healthcare systems are increasingly burdened by documentation workloads. Documentation of the initial patient anamnesis is particularly relevant, forming the basis of successful further diagnostic measures. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Anton Schäfer , Nils Blach , Oliver Rausch , Maximilian Warm , Nils Krüger

Unstructured data in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) often contains critical information -- complementary to imaging -- that could inform radiologists' diagnoses. But the large volume of notes often associated with patients together with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hiba Ahsan , Denis Jered McInerney , Jisoo Kim , Christopher Potter , Geoffrey Young , Silvio Amir , Byron C. Wallace

Current medical language models, adapted from large language models (LLMs), typically predict ICD code-based diagnosis from electronic health records (EHRs) because these labels are readily available. However, ICD codes do not capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wenhao Li , Hongkuan Zhang , Hongwei Zhang , Zhengxu Li , Zengjie Dong , Yafan Chen , Niranjan Bidargaddi , Hong Liu

The Precision Medicine Initiative states that treatments for a patient should take into account not only the patient's disease, but his/her specific genetic variation as well. The vast biomedical literature holds the potential for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Jiaming Qu , Yue Wang

[Context] An evidence briefing is a concise and objective transfer medium that can present the main findings of a study to software engineers in the industry. Although practitioners and researchers have deemed Evidence Briefings useful,…

Extracting patient information from unstructured text is a critical task in health decision-support and clinical research. Large language models (LLMs) have shown the potential to accelerate clinical curation via few-shot in-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Zelalem Gero , Chandan Singh , Hao Cheng , Tristan Naumann , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Hoifung Poon

Recent neural models have shown significant progress on the problem of generating short descriptive texts conditioned on a small number of database records. In this work, we suggest a slightly more difficult data-to-text generation task,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Sam Wiseman , Stuart M. Shieber , Alexander M. Rush

We present an end-to-end pipeline that converts healthcare policy documents into executable, data-aware Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) models using large language models (LLMs) for simulation-based policy evaluation. We address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Praveen Kumar Menaka Sekar , Ion Matei , Maksym Zhenirovskyy , Hon Yung Wong , Sayuri Kohmura , Shinji Hotta , Akihiro Inomata

Medical entity linking is the task of identifying and standardizing medical concepts referred to in an unstructured text. Most of the existing methods adopt a three-step approach of (1) detecting mentions, (2) generating a list of candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Shikhar Vashishth , Denis Newman-Griffis , Rishabh Joshi , Ritam Dutt , Carolyn Rose