Clinical Text
Clinical text analysis focuses on extracting meaningful information from unstructured medical records to improve healthcare. Current research emphasizes leveraging large language models (LLMs), such as BERT and its variants, along with techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), to enhance tasks like entity recognition, information retrieval, and phenotyping. These advancements are crucial for automating high-throughput phenotyping, improving diagnostic accuracy, and facilitating more efficient clinical decision-making, ultimately impacting patient care and medical research. The development of open-source tools and datasets is also a significant trend, fostering collaboration and reproducibility within the field.
Papers
Leveraging Foundation Models for Clinical Text Analysis
Shaina Raza, Syed Raza Bashir
DeID-GPT: Zero-shot Medical Text De-Identification by GPT-4
Zhengliang Liu, Yue Huang, Xiaowei Yu, Lu Zhang, Zihao Wu, Chao Cao, Haixing Dai, Lin Zhao, Yiwei Li, Peng Shu, Fang Zeng, Lichao Sun, Wei Liu, Dinggang Shen, Quanzheng Li, Tianming Liu, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li
Negation detection in Dutch clinical texts: an evaluation of rule-based and machine learning methods
Bram van Es, Leon C. Reteig, Sander C. Tan, Marijn Schraagen, Myrthe M. Hemker, Sebastiaan R. S. Arends, Miguel A. R. Rios, Saskia Haitjema
Which anonymization technique is best for which NLP task? -- It depends. A Systematic Study on Clinical Text Processing
Iyadh Ben Cheikh Larbi, Aljoscha Burchardt, Roland Roller