Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study develops and evaluates a question-answering (Q&A) system for breast cancer patients using generative AI technologies. We compared the performance of three language models-Llama 3.1, Mistral 7B and Phi 3.5. The goal is to integrate this sys...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study investigates large language models for delirium detection from nursing reports, comparing keyword matching, prompting, and finetuning. Using a manually labelled dataset from the University Hospital Freiburg, Germany, we tested Llama3 and P...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
AI-driven "audiomics" leverages voice and respiratory sounds as non-invasive biomarkers to diagnose and manage pulmonary conditions, including COVID-19, tuberculosis, ILD, asthma, and COPD. By analyzing acoustic features, machine and deep learning en...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Creating standardized billing codes from clinic notes is challenging due to the complexity of over 22,000 codes and the unstructured nature of medical records. This paper investigates how well GPT-4, can automate CPT/HCPCS codes generation. To assess...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
The high cost of manual data labeling and privacy concerns result in a considerable dearth of medical annotations in non-English texts. Recent work by Frank and Kramer [1] introduces an unsupervised approach for constructing an ontology-annotated cor...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
The integration of new employees into a company is crucial for employee satisfaction and staff retention. This paper presents a chatbot designed to optimize onboarding using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which provides interactive and persona...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study explores the utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) to support finding rare patient record details that could make a patient identifiable. Whilst most research has focused on what we call direct patient identifiers, indirect patient ident...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This study proposes a two-step Retrieval-Verification system for automating the assignment of Korean Standard Classification of Diseases (KCD) codes to free-text diagnoses. The system uses SapBERT-XLMR for initial retrieval, followed by Llama 3.1 for...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Medical Entity Linking (MEL) refers to the task of automatically detecting and codifying medical concepts, which is an important preprocessing step for exploiting unstructured medical reports. SapBERT is an efficient MEL method for the English langua...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
This work explores the automated extraction of medical information from Dutch clinical notes using Llama-3 and a limited amount of annotations. We compared zero-, one- and few-shot learning for the extraction of performance status of patients with pa...