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Main Authors: Moukheiber, Lama, Moukheiber, Mira, Moukheiiber, Dana, Ju, Jae-Woo, Lee, Hyung-Chul
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02365
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author Moukheiber, Lama
Moukheiber, Mira
Moukheiiber, Dana
Ju, Jae-Woo
Lee, Hyung-Chul
author_facet Moukheiber, Lama
Moukheiber, Mira
Moukheiiber, Dana
Ju, Jae-Woo
Lee, Hyung-Chul
contents We introduce a novel question-answering (QA) dataset using echocardiogram reports sourced from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care database. This dataset is specifically designed to enhance QA systems in cardiology, consisting of 771,244 QA pairs addressing a wide array of cardiac abnormalities and their severity. We compare large language models (LLMs), including open-source and biomedical-specific models for zero-shot evaluation, and closed-source models for zero-shot and three-shot evaluation. Our results show that fine-tuning LLMs improves performance across various QA metrics, validating the value of our dataset. Clinicians also qualitatively evaluate the best-performing model to assess the LLM responses for correctness. Further, we conduct fine-grained fairness audits to assess the bias-performance trade-off of LLMs across various social determinants of health. Our objective is to propel the field forward by establishing a benchmark for LLM AI agents aimed at supporting clinicians with cardiac differential diagnoses, thereby reducing the documentation burden that contributes to clinician burnout and enabling healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care.
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spellingShingle EchoQA: A Large Collection of Instruction Tuning Data for Echocardiogram Reports
Moukheiber, Lama
Moukheiber, Mira
Moukheiiber, Dana
Ju, Jae-Woo
Lee, Hyung-Chul
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
We introduce a novel question-answering (QA) dataset using echocardiogram reports sourced from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care database. This dataset is specifically designed to enhance QA systems in cardiology, consisting of 771,244 QA pairs addressing a wide array of cardiac abnormalities and their severity. We compare large language models (LLMs), including open-source and biomedical-specific models for zero-shot evaluation, and closed-source models for zero-shot and three-shot evaluation. Our results show that fine-tuning LLMs improves performance across various QA metrics, validating the value of our dataset. Clinicians also qualitatively evaluate the best-performing model to assess the LLM responses for correctness. Further, we conduct fine-grained fairness audits to assess the bias-performance trade-off of LLMs across various social determinants of health. Our objective is to propel the field forward by establishing a benchmark for LLM AI agents aimed at supporting clinicians with cardiac differential diagnoses, thereby reducing the documentation burden that contributes to clinician burnout and enabling healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care.
title EchoQA: A Large Collection of Instruction Tuning Data for Echocardiogram Reports
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02365