Natural Language Generation in Healthcare: A Review of Methods and Applications
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| author | Lyu, Mengxian Li, Xiaohan Chen, Ziyi Pan, Jinqian Peng, Cheng Talankar, Sankalp Wu, Yonghui |
| author_facet | Lyu, Mengxian Li, Xiaohan Chen, Ziyi Pan, Jinqian Peng, Cheng Talankar, Sankalp Wu, Yonghui |
| contents | Natural language generation (NLG) is the key technology to achieve generative artificial intelligence (AI). With the breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs), NLG has been widely used in various medical applications, demonstrating the potential to enhance clinical workflows, support clinical decision-making, and improve clinical documentation. Heterogeneous and diverse medical data modalities, such as medical text, images, and knowledge bases, are utilized in NLG. Researchers have proposed many generative models and applied them in a number of healthcare applications. There is a need for a comprehensive review of NLG methods and applications in the medical domain. In this study, we systematically reviewed 113 scientific publications from a total of 3,988 NLG-related articles identified using a literature search, focusing on data modality, model architecture, clinical applications, and evaluation methods. Following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines, we categorize key methods, identify clinical applications, and assess their capabilities, limitations, and emerging challenges. This timely review covers the key NLG technologies and medical applications and provides valuable insights for future studies to leverage NLG to transform medical discovery and healthcare. |
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| spellingShingle | Natural Language Generation in Healthcare: A Review of Methods and Applications Lyu, Mengxian Li, Xiaohan Chen, Ziyi Pan, Jinqian Peng, Cheng Talankar, Sankalp Wu, Yonghui Computation and Language Natural language generation (NLG) is the key technology to achieve generative artificial intelligence (AI). With the breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs), NLG has been widely used in various medical applications, demonstrating the potential to enhance clinical workflows, support clinical decision-making, and improve clinical documentation. Heterogeneous and diverse medical data modalities, such as medical text, images, and knowledge bases, are utilized in NLG. Researchers have proposed many generative models and applied them in a number of healthcare applications. There is a need for a comprehensive review of NLG methods and applications in the medical domain. In this study, we systematically reviewed 113 scientific publications from a total of 3,988 NLG-related articles identified using a literature search, focusing on data modality, model architecture, clinical applications, and evaluation methods. Following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines, we categorize key methods, identify clinical applications, and assess their capabilities, limitations, and emerging challenges. This timely review covers the key NLG technologies and medical applications and provides valuable insights for future studies to leverage NLG to transform medical discovery and healthcare. |
| title | Natural Language Generation in Healthcare: A Review of Methods and Applications |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04073 |