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Prognosis prediction is crucial for determining optimal treatment plans for lung cancer patients. Traditionally, such predictions relied on models developed from retrospective patient data. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have gained…

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Metadata play a crucial role in ensuring the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of datasets. This paper investigates the potential of large language models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, to improve adherence to…

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Pathology text mining is a challenging task given the reporting variability and constant new findings in cancer sub-type definitions. However, successful text mining of a large pathology database can play a critical role to advance 'big…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Thiago Santos , Amara Tariq , Susmita Das , Kavyasree Vayalpati , Geoffrey H. Smith , Hari Trivedi , Imon Banerjee

Large language models (LLMs) have shown considerable promise in clinical natural language processing, yet few domain-specific datasets exist to rigorously evaluate their performance on radiology tasks. In this work, we introduce an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Namu Park , Giridhar Kaushik Ramachandran , Kevin Lybarger , Fei Xia , Ozlem Uzuner , Meliha Yetisgen , Martin Gunn

Background: Artificial intelligence language models have shown promise in various applications, including assisting with clinical decision-making as demonstrated by strong performance of large language models on medical licensure exams.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Timothy Poterucha , Pierre Elias , Christopher M. Haggerty

Late diagnosis and high costs are key factors that negatively impact the care of cancer patients worldwide. Although the availability of biological markers for the diagnosis of cancer type is increasing, costs and reliability of tests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sterling Ramroach , Melford John , Ajay Joshi

Background: Population-based cancer registries (PBCRs) manually extract data from unstructured pathology reports, a labor-intensive process where assigning reports to tumor groups can consume 900 person-hours annually for approximately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Lovedeep Gondara , Jonathan Simkin , Shebnum Devji , Gregory Arbour , Raymond Ng

The increasing availability of unstructured clinical narratives in electronic health records (EHRs) has created new opportunities for automated disease characterization, cohort identification, and clinical decision support. However,…

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Medical images and radiology reports are crucial for diagnosing medical conditions, highlighting the importance of quantitative analysis for clinical decision-making. However, the diversity and cross-source heterogeneity of these data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Yutong Zhang , Yi Pan , Tianyang Zhong , Peixin Dong , Kangni Xie , Yuxiao Liu , Hanqi Jiang , Zhengliang Liu , Shijie Zhao , Tuo Zhang , Xi Jiang , Dinggang Shen , Tianming Liu , Xin Zhang

In this paper we study the problem of predicting clinical diagnoses from textual Electronic Health Records (EHR) data. We show the importance of this problem in medical community and present comprehensive historical review of the problem…

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Accurate extraction of breast cancer patients' phenotypes is important for clinical decision support and clinical research. Current models do not take full advantage of cancer domain-specific corpus, whether pre-training Bidirectional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sicheng Zhou , Liwei Wang , Nan Wang , Hongfang Liu , Rui Zhang

Social telehealth has revolutionized healthcare by enabling patients to share symptoms and receive medical consultations remotely. Users frequently post symptoms on social media and online health platforms, generating a vast repository of…

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This paper presents a novel approach to accurately classify the hallmarks of cancer, which is a crucial task in cancer research. Our proposed method utilizes the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) architecture,…

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The rapid growth of biomedical literature poses challenges for manual knowledge curation and synthesis. Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) automates the process. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in general…

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced in clinical decision-making, yet the deployment of proprietary systems is hindered by privacy concerns and reliance on cloud-based infrastructure. Open-source alternatives allow local…

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Manual digitisation of structured handwritten documents is slow and costly. We benchmark 17 leading frontier multi-modal large language models and open-source models against a very challenging real-world medical form that mixes dates;…

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This study assesses the ability of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) including GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Falcon, and LLaMA 2 to identify patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from discharge summaries and examines instances where…

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities across diverse domains, yet their performance on rare disease diagnosis from narrative medical cases remains underexplored. We introduce a novel dataset of 176 symptom-diagnosis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Arsh Gupta , Ajay Narayanan Sridhar , Bonam Mingole , Amulya Yadav

Deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis has achieved unprecedented performance in breast cancer detection. However, most approaches are computationally intensive, which impedes their broader dissemination in real-world applications. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Jiaqiao Shi , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Jianrui Ding , Chunping Ning

Cancer stage classification is important for making treatment and care management plans for oncology patients. Information on staging is often included in unstructured form in clinical, pathology, radiology and other free-text reports in…

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