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ReviewNPJ precision oncology2024

Large language models and multimodal foundation models for precision oncology.

Daniel Truhn, Jan-Niklas Eckardt, Dyke Ferber, Jakob Nikolas Kather

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Review in NPJ precision oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
48citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
21.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. DynamiCare: A Dynamic Multi-Agent Framework for Interactive and Open-Ended Medical Decision-Making.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel TruhnDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9605-0728
Jan-Niklas EckardtDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Dyke FerberNational Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-6195-9276
Jakob Nikolas KatherDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany. jakob-nikolas.kather@alumni.dkfz.de.
Heidelberg University · DEFresenius (Germany) · DEUniversitätsklinikum Aachen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has massively accelerated since 2022, with far-reaching implications for oncology and cancer research. Large language models (LLMs) now perform at human-level competency in text processing. Notably, both text and image processing networks are increasingly based on transformer neural networks. This convergence enables the development of multimodal AI models that take diverse types of data as an input simultaneously, marking a qualitative shift from specialized niche models which were prevalent in the 2010s. This editorial summarizes these developments, which are expected to impact precision oncology in the coming years.

Identifiers

PMID38519519
PMCPMC10959931
OpenAlexW4393078503

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