Akshay Goel
Akshay Goel is a Physician Scientist and Software Engineer (Machine Learning) at Google Research, where he applies generative AI technologies to advance healthcare. His work focuses on medical information extraction, structured data optimization, and clinical decision support systems. Akshay holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.D. from Rutgers University. He completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and pursued further specialization through a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and MRI at Weill Cornell Medicine.
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This study evaluates the proficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) in accurately labeling clinical document excerpts. Our focus is on the assignment of potential or confirmed diagnoses and medical procedures to snippets of medical text sourced from unstructured clinical patient records. We explore how the performance of LLMs compare against human annotators in classifying these excerpts. Employing a few-shot, chain-of-thought prompting approach with the MIMIC-III dataset, Med-PaLM 2 showcases annotation accuracy comparable to human annotators, achieving a notable precision rate of approximately 92\% relative to the gold standard labels established by human experts.
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LLMs Accelerate Annotation for Medical Information Extraction
Almog Gueta
Omry Gilon
Chang Liu
Xiaohong Hao
Bolous Jaber
Shashir Reddy
Rupesh Kartha
Jean Steiner
Machine Learning for Health (ML4H), PMLR (2023)
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The unstructured nature of clinical notes within electronic health records often conceals vital patient-related information, making it challenging to access or interpret. To uncover this hidden information, specialized Natural Language Processing (NLP) models are required. However, training these models necessitates large amounts of labeled data, a process that is both time-consuming and costly when relying solely on human experts for annotation. In this paper, we propose an approach that combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with human expertise to create an efficient method for generating ground truth labels for medical text annotation. By utilizing LLMs in conjunction with human annotators, we significantly reduce the human annotation burden, enabling the rapid creation of labeled datasets. We rigorously evaluate our method on a medical information extraction task, demonstrating that our approach not only substantially cuts down on human intervention but also maintains high accuracy. The results highlight the potential of using LLMs to improve the utilization of unstructured clinical data, allowing for the swift deployment of tailored NLP solutions in healthcare.
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