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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2024

Knowledge-guided generative artificial intelligence for automated taxonomy learning from drug labels.

Yilu Fang, Patrick Ryan, Chunhua Weng

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. Large language models in biomedicine and health: current research landscape and future directions.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024
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  3. Knowledge Engineering for Medical Vocabularies Using Large Language Models.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024
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Yilu FangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2681-1931
Patrick RyanDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, United States.
Chunhua WengDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, United States.

Funding

Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Research Eligibility Criteria and Clinical DataR01LM009886 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI WENG, CHUNHUA · 2009 to 2020
$5.3M
ClinEX - Clinical Evidence Extraction, Representation, and AppraisalR01LM014344 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Yong Chen, Yifan Peng · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Deep learning based predictive analytics to improve patient health.R01LM013061 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Krzysztof Kiryluk, CHUNHUA WENG · 2019 to 2026
$2.7M
Translator Red Knowledge (TReK)OT2TR003434 · NCATS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DUMONTIER, MICHEL, TA, CASEY NGHIA · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
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Abstract

objectivesTo automatically construct a drug indication taxonomy from drug labels using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) represented by the Large Language Model (LLM) GPT-4 and real-world evidence (RWE). MATERIALS AND

methodsWe extracted indication terms from 46 421 free-text drug labels using GPT-4, iteratively and recursively generated indication concepts and inferred indication concept-to-concept and concept-to-term subsumption relations by integrating GPT-4 with RWE, and created a drug indication taxonomy. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations involving domain experts were performed for cardiovascular (CVD), Endocrine, and Genitourinary system diseases.

results2909 drug indication terms were extracted and assigned into 24 high-level indication categories (ie, initially generated concepts), each of which was expanded into a sub-taxonomy. For example, the CVD sub-taxonomy contains 242 concepts, spanning a depth of 11, with 170 being leaf nodes. It collectively covers a total of 234 indication terms associated with 189 distinct drugs. The accuracies of GPT-4 on determining the drug indication hierarchy exceeded 0.7 with "good to very good" inter-rater reliability. However, the accuracies of the concept-to-term subsumption relation checking varied greatly, with "fair to moderate" reliability. DISCUSSION AND

conclusionWe successfully used generative AI and RWE to create a taxonomy, with drug indications adequately consistent with domain expert expectations. We show that LLMs are good at deriving their own concept hierarchies but still fall short in determining the subsumption relations between concepts and terms in unregulated language from free-text drug labels, which is the same hard task for human experts.

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Artificial IntelligenceDrug LabelingNatural Language ProcessingClassificationHumanslarge language modelreal-world evidencetaxonomy learning

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