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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide vital contextual information to radiologists and other physicians when making a diagnosis. Unfortunately, because a given patient's record may contain hundreds of notes and reports, identifying…

This paper proposes a medical text summarization method based on LongFormer, aimed at addressing the challenges faced by existing models when processing long medical texts. Traditional summarization methods are often limited by short-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Dan Sun , Jacky He , Hanlu Zhang , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng , Xiaokai Wang

The records of a clinical encounter can be extensive and complex, thus placing a premium on tools that can extract and summarize relevant information. This paper introduces the task of generating discharge summaries for a clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Han-Chin Shing , Chaitanya Shivade , Nima Pourdamghani , Feng Nan , Philip Resnik , Douglas Oard , Parminder Bhatia

Recently, various neural encoder-decoder models pioneered by Seq2Seq framework have been proposed to achieve the goal of generating more abstractive summaries by learning to map input text to output text. At a high level, such neural models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yichong Huang , Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Pre-trained neural abstractive summarization systems have dominated extractive strategies on news summarization performance, at least in terms of ROUGE. However, system-generated abstractive summaries often face the pitfall of factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yue Dong , Shuohang Wang , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Jingjing Liu

Medical abstractive summarization faces the challenge of balancing faithfulness and informativeness. Current methods often sacrifice key information for faithfulness or introduce confabulations when prioritizing informativeness. While…

The task of automatic text summarization produces a concise and fluent text summary while preserving key information and overall meaning. Recent approaches to document-level summarization have seen significant improvements in recent years…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Gonçalo Raposo , Afonso Raposo , Ana Sofia Carmo

Clinical conversation summarization has become an important application of Natural language Processing. In this work, we intend to analyze summarization model ensembling approaches, that can be utilized to improve the overall accuracy of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Dhananjay Srivastava

E-commerce stores collect customer feedback to let sellers learn about customer concerns and enhance customer order experience. Because customer feedback often contains redundant information, a concise summary of the feedback can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yang Liu , Yifei Sun , Vincent Gao

Text summarization aims at compressing long documents into a shorter form that conveys the most important parts of the original document. Despite increased interest in the community and notable research effort, progress on benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Wojciech Kryściński , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Hospital discharge documentation is among the most essential, yet time-consuming documents written by medical practitioners. The objective of this study was to automatically generate hospital discharge summaries using neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Koyena Pal , Seyed Ali Bahrainian , Laura Mercurio , Carsten Eickhoff

Despite recent improvements in abstractive summarization, most current approaches generate summaries that are not factually consistent with the source document, severely restricting their trust and usage in real-world applications. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Mengwen Liu , Iryna Gurevych , Markus Dreyer , Mohit Bansal

Biomedical text summarization is a critical tool that enables clinicians to effectively ascertain patient status. Traditionally, text summarization has been accomplished with transformer models, which are capable of compressing long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hyunkyung Han , Jaesik Choi

Clinical texts, such as admission notes, discharge summaries, and progress notes, contain rich and valuable information that can be used for clinical decision making. However, a severe bottleneck in using transformer encoders for processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mohammad Junayed Hasan , Suhra Noor , Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Khan

A medical provider's summary of a patient visit serves several critical purposes, including clinical decision-making, facilitating hand-offs between providers, and as a reference for the patient. An effective summary is required to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Varun Nair , Elliot Schumacher , Anitha Kannan

Maintaining factual consistency is a critical issue in abstractive text summarisation, however, it cannot be assessed by traditional automatic metrics used for evaluating text summarisation, such as ROUGE scoring. Recent efforts have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jennifer A Bishop , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Brief Hospital Course (BHC) summaries are succinct summaries of an entire hospital encounter, embedded within discharge summaries, written by senior clinicians responsible for the overall care of a patient. Methods to automatically produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Thomas Searle , Zina Ibrahim , James Teo , Richard Dobson

Abstractive summarization has made tremendous progress in recent years. In this work, we perform fine-grained human annotations to evaluate long document abstractive summarization systems (i.e., models and metrics) with the aim of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , He Zhang , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

Objective: The aim of this paper is to survey the recent work in medical documents summarization. Background: During the last decade, documents summarization got increasing attention by the AI research community. More recently it also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stergos D. Afantenos , Vangelis Karkaletsis , Panagiotis Stamatopoulos

We propose a summarization approach for scientific articles which takes advantage of citation-context and the document discourse model. While citations have been previously used in generating scientific summaries, they lack the related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian