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One of the major barriers to using large language models (LLMs) in medicine is the perception they use uninterpretable methods to make clinical decisions that are inherently different from the cognitive processes of clinicians. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Thomas Savage , Ashwin Nayak , Robert Gallo , Ekanath Rangan , Jonathan H Chen

Clinical trials are crucial for assessing new treatments; however, recruitment challenges - such as limited awareness, complex eligibility criteria, and referral barriers - hinder their success. With the growth of online platforms, patients…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Joey Chan , Qiao Jin , Nicholas Wan , Charalampos S. Floudas , Elisabetta Xue , Zhiyong Lu

Clinical guidance systems have been widely adopted to help medical staffs to avoid preventable medical errors such as delay in diagnosis, treatment or untended deviations from best practice guidelines. However, because patient condition…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Maryam Rahmaniheris , Yu Jiang , Lui Sha

Clinical trials are a systematic endeavor to assess the safety and efficacy of new drugs or treatments. Conducting such trials typically demands significant financial investment and meticulous planning, highlighting the need for accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Tien Huu Do , Antoine Masquelier , Nae Eoun Lee , Jonathan Crowther

Clinical trial outcome prediction seeks to estimate the likelihood that a clinical trial will successfully reach its intended endpoint. This process predominantly involves the development of machine learning models that utilize a variety of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-14 Chufan Gao , Tianfan Fu , Jimeng Sun

With the emerging trend of GPT models, we have established a framework called AutoML-GPT that integrates a comprehensive set of tools and libraries. This framework grants users access to a wide range of data preprocessing techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yun-Da Tsai , Yu-Che Tsai , Bo-Wei Huang , Chun-Pai Yang , Shou-De Lin

In practice, clinicians achieve a diagnosis by following a sequence of steps, such as laboratory exams, observations, or imaging. The pathways to reach diagnosis decisions are documented by guidelines authored by expert organizations, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Elisa Castagnari , Lillian Muyama , Adrien Coulet

Clinical trials are a critical component of evaluating the effectiveness of new medical interventions and driving advancements in medical research. Therefore, timely enrollment of patients is crucial to prevent delays or premature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Georgios Peikos , Symeon Symeonidis , Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi

The performance of large language models (LLMs) depends on how they are prompted, with choices spanning both the high-level prompting pattern (e.g., Zero-Shot, CoT, ReAct, ReWOO) and the specific prompt content (instructions and few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Claudio Spiess , Mandana Vaziri , Louis Mandel , Martin Hirzel

This report embarks on a mission to revolutionize clinical trial protocol development through the integration of advanced AI technologies. With a focus on leveraging the capabilities of generative AI, specifically GPT-4, this initiative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Morteza Maleki , SeyedAli Ghahari

Clinical trial matching is a key process in health delivery and discovery. In practice, it is plagued by overwhelming unstructured data and unscalable manual processing. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study on scaling clinical trial…

Matching patients to clinical trials demands a systematic and reasoned interpretation of documents which require significant expert-level background knowledge, over a complex set of well-defined eligibility criteria. Moreover, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mael Jullien , Alex Bogatu , Harriet Unsworth , Andre Freitas

Matching cancer patients to clinical trials is essential for advancing treatment and patient care. However, the inconsistent format of medical free text documents and complex trial eligibility criteria make this process extremely…

Recent large language models (LLMs) are promising for making decisions in grounded environments. However, LLMs frequently fail in complex decision-making tasks due to the misalignment between the pre-trained knowledge in LLMs and the actual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Siqi Ouyang , Lei Li

The rapid expansion of electronic health record (EHR) systems has generated large volumes of unstructured clinical narratives that contain valuable information for disease identification, patient cohort discovery, and clinical decision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Fariba Afrin Irany , Sampson Akwafuo

Significant advancements have been made in recent years to optimize patient recruitment for clinical trials, however, improved methods for patient recruitment prediction are needed to support trial site selection and to estimate appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jingshu Liu , Patricia J Allen , Luke Benz , Daniel Blickstein , Evon Okidi , Xiao Shi

We present a system that uses a learned autocompletion mechanism to facilitate rapid creation of semi-structured clinical documentation. We dynamically suggest relevant clinical concepts as a doctor drafts a note by leveraging features from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Divya Gopinath , Monica Agrawal , Luke Murray , Steven Horng , David Karger , David Sontag

Clinical trials predicate subject eligibility on a diversity of criteria ranging from patient demographics to food allergies. Trials post their requirements as semantically complex, unstructured free-text. Formalizing trial criteria to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yitong Tseo , M. I. Salkola , Ahmed Mohamed , Anuj Kumar , Freddy Abnousi

Clinical trial records are variable resources or the analysis of patients and diseases. Information extraction from free text such as eligibility criteria and summary of results and conclusions in clinical trials would better support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yingcheng Sun , Kenneth Loparo

We present an audit mechanism for language models, with a focus on models deployed in the healthcare setting. Our proposed mechanism takes inspiration from clinical trial design where we posit the language model audit as a single blind…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Lovedeep Gondara , Jonathan Simkin