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The potential of large language models (LLMs) as decision support tools is increasingly being explored in fields such as business, engineering, and medicine, which often face challenging tasks of decision-making under uncertainty. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ollie Liu , Deqing Fu , Dani Yogatama , Willie Neiswanger

Background: Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-4 or Google's PaLM 2 are proposed as viable diagnostic support tools or even spoken of as replacements for "curbside consults". However, even LLMs specifically trained on medical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Gioele Barabucci , Victor Shia , Eugene Chu , Benjamin Harack , Nathan Fu

Background: Cognitive biases in clinical decision-making significantly contribute to errors in diagnosis and suboptimal patient outcomes. Addressing these biases presents a formidable challenge in the medical field. Objective: This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yu He Ke , Rui Yang , Sui An Lie , Taylor Xin Yi Lim , Hairil Rizal Abdullah , Daniel Shu Wei Ting , Nan Liu

Large Language Model (LLM)-based systems present new opportunities for autonomous health monitoring in sensor-rich industrial environments. This study explores the potential of LLMs to detect and classify faults directly from sensor data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xian Yeow Lee , Lasitha Vidyaratne , Ahmed Farahat , Chetan Gupta

Large language models (LLMs) have recently showcased remarkable capabilities, spanning a wide range of tasks and applications, including those in the medical domain. Models like GPT-4 excel in medical question answering but may face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Bowen Wang , Jiuyang Chang , Yiming Qian , Guoxin Chen , Junhao Chen , Zhouqiang Jiang , Jiahao Zhang , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated notable potential in medical applications, yet they face substantial challenges in handling complex real-world clinical diagnoses using conventional prompting methods. Current prompt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Wenliang Li , Rui Yan , Xu Zhang , Li Chen , Hongji Zhu , Jing Zhao , Junjun Li , Mengru Li , Wei Cao , Zihang Jiang , Wei Wei , Kun Zhang , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in disease diagnosis. However, their effectiveness in identifying rarer diseases, which are inherently more challenging to diagnose, remains an open question. Rare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Elliot Schumacher , Dhruv Naik , Anitha Kannan

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into healthcare is constrained by knowledge limitations, hallucinations, and a disconnect from Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers a solution,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qiaoyu Zheng , Yuze Sun , Chaoyi Wu , Weike Zhao , Pengcheng Qiu , Yongguo Yu , Kun Sun , Jian Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Doctors and patients alike increasingly use Large Language Models (LLMs) to diagnose clinical cases. However, unlike domains such as math or coding, where correctness can be objectively defined by the final answer, medical diagnosis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Kevin Wu , Eric Wu , Rahul Thapa , Kevin Wei , Angela Zhang , Arvind Suresh , Jacqueline J. Tao , Min Woo Sun , Alejandro Lozano , James Zou

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

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly attracting the attention of healthcare professionals for their potential to assist in diagnostic assessments, which could alleviate the strain on the healthcare system caused by a high patient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kaushik Roy , Harshul Surana , Darssan Eswaramoorthi , Yuxin Zi , Vedant Palit , Ritvik Garimella , Amit Sheth

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to encode clinical knowledge. Many evaluations, however, rely on structured question-answer benchmarks, overlooking critical challenges of interpreting and reasoning about unstructured clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Meghal Dani , Muthu Jeyanthi Prakash , Filip Rosa , Zeynep Akata , Stefanie Liebe

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for supporting clinicians in diagnostic communication by generating explanations and guidance for patients. Yet their ability to produce outputs that are both understandable and empathetic remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jianzhou Yao , Shunchang Liu , Guillaume Drui , Rikard Pettersson , Alessandro Blasimme , Sara Kijewski

The shortage of clinical workforce presents significant challenges in mental healthcare, limiting access to formal diagnostics and services. We aim to tackle this shortage by integrating a customized large language model (LLM) into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Sichang Tu , Abigail Powers , Natalie Merrill , Negar Fani , Sierra Carter , Stephen Doogan , Jinho D. Choi

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong generalization and reasoning abilities, making them well-suited for complex decision-making tasks such as medical consultation (MC). However, existing LLM-based methods often fail to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhihao Jia , Mingyi Jia , Junwen Duan , Jianxin Wang

Clinical decision-making requires reasoning over incomplete, imprecise, and linguistically expressed patient narratives. While large language models (LLMs) excel at extracting latent information from natural language, they lack the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiaoyang Fan , Yufan Cai , Zhe Hou , Jin Song Dong

Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted to support patients' healthcare-seeking in recent years. While prior patient-centered studies have examined the capabilities and experience of LLM-based tools in specific…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yancheng Cao , Yishu Ji , Chris Yue Fu , Sahiti Dharmavaram , Meghan Turchioe , Natalie C Benda , Lena Mamykina , Yuling Sun , Xuhai "Orson" Xu

This study investigates the efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in interactive language therapy for high-functioning autistic adolescents. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly in natural language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yujin Cho , Mingeon Kim , Seojin Kim , Oyun Kwon , Ryan Donghan Kwon , Yoonha Lee , Dohyun Lim

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on diverse benchmarks, yet existing evaluation practices largely rely on coarse summary metrics that obscure underlying reasoning abilities. In this work, we propose novel…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Jia Liu , Zhiyu Xu , Yuqi Gu

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant promise in clinical diagnosis. However, current models struggle to emulate the iterative, diagnostic hypothesis-driven reasoning of real clinical scenarios.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Qipeng Wang , Rui Sheng , Yafei Li , Huamin Qu , Yushi Sun , Min Zhu