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eCREAM-MedCorpus A Large-Scale Corpus of Clinical Notes for Italian

arXiv:2606. 12569v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present eCREAM-MedCorpus, a new and unique large-scale dataset of clinical notes produced in Emergency Departments of Italian hospitals.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

Key Coverage Matters: Semi-Structured Extraction of OCR Clinical Reports

The paper presents a method for extracting key information from OCR‑digitized clinical reports, addressing challenges posed by heterogeneous documents and noisy OCR output. It introduces an open key space that is iteratively mined, normalized, clustered, and verified to build a canonical key inventory, and defines key coverage as a metric for inventory completeness. Experiments on reports from over 20 hospitals using a 0.2B BERT model show that performance improves steadily with key coverage, achieving high F1 scores when the top 90 keys are covered and outperforming a fine‑tuned Qwen3‑0.6B baseline.

By Yu Wang, Yingyun Li, Ying Qin, Haiyang Qian
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

Clinical Intent Extraction: A FHIR-Aligned Representation and the CIRCA Benchmark

The paper introduces Clinical Intent Extraction (CIE), a task that transforms fragmented clinical action annotations into complete structured records called Clinical Intent Representation (CIR). CIR decomposes each action into verb, type, coded target, timing, condition, request‑intent (aligned to HL7 FHIR) and modality, adding dimensions absent in prior datasets. By re‑expressing five heterogeneous corpora into CIR, the authors create CIRCA, a benchmark of 10,011 harmonized intents with human‑validated subsets, crosswalks, and a deterministic FHIR R4 mapper, and demonstrate that existing models perform poorly on the full task, highlighting the need for targeted development.

By Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit Aperstein
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

Cross-Lingual Clinical Annotation Projection as Constrained Text Generation: A Six-Language Study

The study investigates whether cross‑lingual clinical annotation projection can be treated as a constrained text‑generation task that preserves the original text while inserting entity tags. Using a workflow that embeds tags directly into immutable target‑language text and then validates them deterministically, the authors evaluated this approach against supervised candidate‑span projection and hybrid ML‑LLM refinement across six languages. Results show that direct LLM projection, particularly with GLM 5.2 and Gemma4:31B, achieves the highest strict F1 scores (up to 0.9201) and outperforms previous methods by 0.0564–0.1512, producing over 55,000 grounded mentions with accurate offsets.

By \'Alvaro Rey-Blanes, Francisco J. Moreno-Barea, Francisco J. Veredas
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 10

Cross-Lingual Clinical Annotation Projection as Constrained Text Generation: A Six-Language Study

The study investigates whether cross‑lingual clinical annotation can be treated as a constrained text‑generation task that preserves the original text while inserting entity tags. Using a workflow that embeds tags directly into immutable target‑language text and then validates them deterministically, the authors compare this approach to supervised candidate‑span projection and hybrid ML‑LLM refinement across six languages. Results show that direct LLM projection, particularly with GLM 5.2 and Gemma4:31B, achieves the highest strict F1 scores, surpassing previous state‑of‑the‑art by up to 0.15 and producing over 55,000 grounded mentions with accurate offsets.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Automatic identification of diagnosis from hospital discharge letters via weakly supervised Natural Language Processing

arXiv:2410. 15051v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Identifying patient diagnoses from hospital discharge letters is essential for large-scale cohort selection and epidemiological research, but traditional supervised approaches require extensive manual annotation, which is often impractical for large textual datasets.

By Vittorio Torri, Elisa Barbieri, Anna Cantarutti, Carlo Giaquinto, Francesca Ieva