NEJM AI Grand Rounds From Clinical Notes to GPT-4: Dr. Emily Alsentzer on Natural Language Processing in Medicine
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Feb 19, 2025 Dr. Emily Alsentzer, an assistant professor at Stanford University and an expert in natural language processing, takes listeners on a journey from medicine to AI. She discusses her evolution from a pre-med background to specializing in clinical AI. The conversation dives into the biases present in AI healthcare diagnostics, particularly with GPT-4, highlighting the disparities in diagnostic accuracy across demographics. Emily also emphasizes the need for collaboration between clinicians and computer scientists, addressing the future of AI in medical research.
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Balancing New and Old NLP
- Modern NLP models facilitate a focus on broader clinical tasks like summarizing medical records.
- However, some valuable principles from older pipeline-based NLP approaches should be reintroduced.
ClinicalBERT's Power
- ClinicalBERT, a model trained on clinical notes, outperforms general language models on medical tasks.
- Publicly available on Hugging Face, it addresses challenges of medical terminology and patient presentations.
Start Small, Think Clinical
- Consider smaller, specialized models before using large general language models for medical NLP tasks.
- Clinical language models are more parameter-efficient and cost-effective, often surpassing larger models' performance.
