Agentic LLM Workflows for Generating Patient-Friendly Medical Reports

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Auteurs principaux: Sudarshan, Malavikha, Shih, Sophie, Yee, Estella, Yang, Alina, Zou, John, Chen, Cathy, Zhou, Quan, Chen, Leon, Singhal, Chinmay, Shih, George
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author Sudarshan, Malavikha
Shih, Sophie
Yee, Estella
Yang, Alina
Zou, John
Chen, Cathy
Zhou, Quan
Chen, Leon
Singhal, Chinmay
Shih, George
author_facet Sudarshan, Malavikha
Shih, Sophie
Yee, Estella
Yang, Alina
Zou, John
Chen, Cathy
Zhou, Quan
Chen, Leon
Singhal, Chinmay
Shih, George
contents The application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare is expanding rapidly, with one potential use case being the translation of formal medical reports into patient-legible equivalents. Currently, LLM outputs often need to be edited and evaluated by a human to ensure both factual accuracy and comprehensibility, and this is true for the above use case. We aim to minimize this step by proposing an agentic workflow with the Reflexion framework, which uses iterative self-reflection to correct outputs from an LLM. This pipeline was tested and compared to zero-shot prompting on 16 randomized radiology reports. In our multi-agent approach, reports had an accuracy rate of 94.94% when looking at verification of ICD-10 codes, compared to zero-shot prompted reports, which had an accuracy rate of 68.23%. Additionally, 81.25% of the final reflected reports required no corrections for accuracy or readability, while only 25% of zero-shot prompted reports met these criteria without needing modifications. These results indicate that our approach presents a feasible method for communicating clinical findings to patients in a quick, efficient and coherent manner whilst also retaining medical accuracy. The codebase is available for viewing at http://github.com/malavikhasudarshan/Multi-Agent-Patient-Letter-Generation.
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spellingShingle Agentic LLM Workflows for Generating Patient-Friendly Medical Reports
Sudarshan, Malavikha
Shih, Sophie
Yee, Estella
Yang, Alina
Zou, John
Chen, Cathy
Zhou, Quan
Chen, Leon
Singhal, Chinmay
Shih, George
Multiagent Systems
The application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare is expanding rapidly, with one potential use case being the translation of formal medical reports into patient-legible equivalents. Currently, LLM outputs often need to be edited and evaluated by a human to ensure both factual accuracy and comprehensibility, and this is true for the above use case. We aim to minimize this step by proposing an agentic workflow with the Reflexion framework, which uses iterative self-reflection to correct outputs from an LLM. This pipeline was tested and compared to zero-shot prompting on 16 randomized radiology reports. In our multi-agent approach, reports had an accuracy rate of 94.94% when looking at verification of ICD-10 codes, compared to zero-shot prompted reports, which had an accuracy rate of 68.23%. Additionally, 81.25% of the final reflected reports required no corrections for accuracy or readability, while only 25% of zero-shot prompted reports met these criteria without needing modifications. These results indicate that our approach presents a feasible method for communicating clinical findings to patients in a quick, efficient and coherent manner whilst also retaining medical accuracy. The codebase is available for viewing at http://github.com/malavikhasudarshan/Multi-Agent-Patient-Letter-Generation.
title Agentic LLM Workflows for Generating Patient-Friendly Medical Reports
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01112