arXiv:2608.28974v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Clinically relevant oncology information is distributed across heterogeneous, longitudinal documentation, creating substantial abstraction burden and r...
By Daniel Kang, Michelle Hu, Soorya Ram Shimgekar, Shayan Vassef, Yufan Wang, Anit Kumar Sahu, Munmun De Choudhury, Vedant Das Swain, Christian Poellabauer, Li Yan Khor, Koustuv Saha, Robert Wojciechowski, Elliot Kidd, Piyum Zonooz, Navin Kumar
This study benchmarks transformer models for Bangla medical named entity recognition (NER), comparing BanglaBERT, multilingual BERT (mBERT), XLM‑RoBERTa, and GPT‑4o mini under zero‑shot and few‑shot prompting. Across a full test set of 3,179 samples, fine‑tuned XLM‑RoBERTa achieves a new state‑of‑the‑art F1‑score of 0.5959, while BanglaBERT lags with 0.4937, suggesting that domain diversity outweighs language specificity. The analysis shows high performance on Medicine and Specialist entities (F1 > 0.83) but lower accuracy on Symptoms (F1 0.4367), and demonstrates that fine‑tuned transformers outperform prompt‑only approaches by a factor of 3.76.
By Rakib Abdullah, Md. Maruful Islam Maruf
This thesis explores how to select and adapt NLP models for global health literature when annotated data and computational resources are scarce. It compares skip‑gram word2vec models trained on increasingly large specialized corpora with BioWordVec for semantic tag discovery, finding that larger coverage does not always yield more useful domain associations. The study also evaluates convolutional spaCy models versus a RoBERTa transformer for named entity recognition, noting a trade‑off between higher F1 scores and longer inference time, and investigates MiniLM few‑shot versus BART‑MNLI zero‑shot classification for multi‑label topic classification, highlighting practical constraints of inference cost.
"whyItMatters":"The work provides empirical guidance on balancing model accuracy and resource demands for building knowledge systems in low‑resource global health settings."
By Genis Skura, Antoine Geissb\"uhler, Jean-Luc Falcone
arXiv:2607. 14116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Free-form radiology reports contain rich clinical descriptions, yet converting them for reliable segmentation remains challenging due to the inherent variability of natural language.
By Anghong Du, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Colin Watts, Alejandro F. Frangi, Le Zhang
An end-to-end-trained vision-language model generates prostate biopsy reports in native languages, demonstrated in German. The system uses a tokenizer and model trained from scratch and an automated pipeline that splits composite reports into image-text pairs, producing 17,344 pairs from 2,402 cases without manual annotation. Evaluated on clinical attributes, it achieves 96.2% F1 for malignancy detection and 65.2% for Gleason grading, comparable to an FDA-cleared classifier and validated on external cohorts.
By Christian Grashei, Fabian G\"ulhan, Maximilian Legnar, Fabian St\"ogbauer, Cleo-Aron Weis, Carolin Mogler, Peter Sch\"uffler
arXiv:2508. 16674v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical report understanding from real-world document images is essential for generating patient-facing explanations and enabling structured information exchange in clinical systems.
By Fangxin Shang, Yuan Xia, Dalu Yang, Yahui Wang, Binglin Yang