提升对老年人认知能力下降的早期检测:在临床笔记中使用大型语言模型进行比较研究
Xinsong Du1, John Novoa-Laurentiev2, Joseph M Plasek1
1Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
EBioMedicine
|October 13, 2024
概括
结合大型语言模型 (LLM) 和传统机器学习的整体模型显著改善了电子健康记录 (EHR) 中认知衰退迹象的检测. 这种方法通过利用互补的错误档案来提高诊断准确性.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健中的人工智能
- 临床信息学 临床信息学
- 自然语言处理自然语言处理.
背景情况:
- 大型语言模型 (LLM) 在医疗保健中表现有前途,但需要评估以检测电子健康记录 (EHR) 中的特定临床条件.
- 本研究评估了在临床笔记中识别认知衰退指标的LLM,并将其性能和错误模式与传统模型进行比较.
- 了解这些差异可以为改善临床环境中LLM绩效的策略提供信息.
研究的目的:
- 评估大型语言模型 (LLM) 在从电子健康记录 (EHR) 临床笔记中检测认知衰退方面的有效性.
- 将LLM (GPT-4,Llama 2) 的错误概况与传统的机器学习模型进行比较.
- 开发一种基于LLM的最佳方法来识别认知衰退,并评估集合模型的性能.
主要方法:
- 从大众医院布里格姆医院 (2019年轻度认知障碍诊断) 的临床笔记分析.
- 使用各种方法 (硬提示,检索增强生成) 开发和比较GPT-4和Llama 2的提示.
- 创建一个组合模型,将LLMs和传统模型 (层次关注网络,XGBoost) 结合起来,使用多数投票,以基于混矩阵的分数进行评估.
主要成果:
- 与Llama 2相比,GPT-4显示出更高的精度和效率,但在单独方面并没有超越传统模型.
- 整体模型在所有指标上显著优于单个模型 (p < 0.01),达到90.2%的精度,94.2%的回忆率和92.1%的F1分数.
- 整体模型显著提高了精度 (从70%-79%到>90%),所有模型的相互错误仅为3.2%,表明不同的错误配置文件.
结论:
- 在本地EHR数据上训练的LLM和传统模型具有不同的错误配置文件.
- 结合这些模型的整体方法是互补的,并提高认知衰退检测的诊断性能.
- 未来的研究应该探索将LLM与本地化模型和特定领域的知识集成在一起,以提高特定任务的性能.
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