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  • Medical informatics
  • Natural Language Processing

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  • Data harmonization is crucial for clinical research but is often time-consuming.
  • Language Models (LMs) show promise for text understanding and could streamline this process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of LMs in automating data harmonization for clinical use cases.
  • To compare LM-based harmonization with traditional fuzzy string matching methods.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the PASSIONATE schema for Parkinson's disease (PD) as a ground truth.
  • Utilized text embeddings from two LMs for automated cohort harmonization in PD and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
  • Compared LM results against a baseline fuzzy string matching approach.

Main Results:

  • LM-based text embeddings significantly outperformed fuzzy string matching for data harmonization.
  • Achieved over 80% average accuracy for PD cohort harmonization, improving to 96% with extended match neighborhoods.
  • Demonstrated high accuracy in harmonizing both AD and PD datasets.

Conclusions:

  • Language Models offer a highly accurate method for automated clinical data harmonization.
  • Future improvements are expected with the application of domain-specific LMs.
  • LM-based harmonization can accelerate clinical research by reducing manual effort.