End-to-end Chinese clinical event extraction based on large language model
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This study introduces LMCEE, an end-to-end method using large language models (LLMs) for clinical event extraction. LMCEE significantly improves accuracy over traditional methods, enhancing medical data structuring and decision-making.
Area Of Science
- Medical Informatics
- Natural Language Processing
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Background
- Clinical event extraction is vital for organizing medical data and powering healthcare services.
- Pipeline-based methods for event extraction face challenges like error propagation and information loss.
- Existing methods often struggle with suboptimal performance in complex clinical text.
Purpose Of The Study
- To propose an advanced, end-to-end clinical event extraction method utilizing large language models (LLMs).
- To address the limitations of traditional pipeline approaches in clinical event extraction.
- To enhance the accuracy and efficiency of structuring medical data for improved clinical decision-making.
Main Methods
- Developed LMCEE, an end-to-end method transforming clinical event extraction into a text generation task.
- Employed a prompt learning strategy tailored for LLMs to perform clinical event extraction.
- Evaluated the method's performance against traditional pipeline and existing generative-based approaches.
Main Results
- LMCEE achieved a significant 12% increase in F1 score compared to traditional pipeline methods.
- The proposed method outperformed the UIE generative-based method by 5.7% in F1 score.
- Identified limitations including sensitivity to prompt templates and LLM type dependency.
Conclusions
- End-to-end LLM-based methods offer superior performance for clinical event extraction.
- LMCEE demonstrates a promising advancement in structuring clinical data.
- Further research is needed to optimize prompt templates and LLM selection for enhanced robustness.

