UF-HOBI at “Discharge Me!”: A Hybrid Solution for Discharge Summary Generation Through Prompt-based Tuning of GatorTronGPT Models

Mengxian Lyu, Cheng Peng, Daniel Paredes, Ziyi Chen, Aokun Chen, Jiang Bian, Yonghui Wu

Abstract
Automatic generation of discharge summaries presents significant challenges due to the length of clinical documentation, the dispersed nature of patient information, and the diverse terminology used in healthcare. This paper presents a hybrid solution for generating discharge summary sections as part of our participation in the “Discharge Me!” Challenge at the BioNLP 2024 Shared Task. We developed a two-stage generation method using both extractive and abstractive techniques, in which we first apply name entity recognition (NER) to extract key clinical concepts, which are then used as input for a prompt-tuning based GatorTronGPT model to generate coherent text for two important sections including “Brief Hospital Course” and “Discharge Instructions”. Our system was ranked 5th in this challenge, achieving an overall score of 0.284. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our hybrid solution in improving the quality of automated discharge section generation.
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2024.bionlp-1.60
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Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Makoto Miwa, Kirk Roberts, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP | WS
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SIGBIOMED
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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685–695
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Mengxian Lyu, Cheng Peng, Daniel Paredes, Ziyi Chen, Aokun Chen, Jiang Bian, and Yonghui Wu. 2024. UF-HOBI at “Discharge Me!”: A Hybrid Solution for Discharge Summary Generation Through Prompt-based Tuning of GatorTronGPT Models. In Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, pages 685–695, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UF-HOBI at “Discharge Me!”: A Hybrid Solution for Discharge Summary Generation Through Prompt-based Tuning of GatorTronGPT Models (Lyu et al., BioNLP-WS 2024)
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