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Current and future state of evaluation of large language models for medical summarization tasks.

Emma Croxford, Yanjun Gao, Nicholas Pellegrino, Karen Wong, Graham Wills, Elliot First, Frank Liao, Cherodeep Goswami, Brian Patterson, Majid Afshar

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Article in npj health systems, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Emma CroxfordDepartment of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Yanjun GaoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
Nicholas PellegrinoEpic Systems, Verona, WI, USA.
Karen WongEpic Systems, Verona, WI, USA.
Graham WillsUW Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Elliot FirstEpic Systems, Verona, WI, USA.
Frank LiaoUW Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Cherodeep GoswamiUW Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Brian PattersonUW Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Majid AfsharUW Health, Madison, WI, USA.

Funding

Research Training for Computation and Informatics in Biology and MedicineT15LM007359 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Mark W. Craven, Colin Noel Dewey · 2002 to 2026
$22.6M
Data Driven Strategies for Substance Misuse Identification in Hospitalized PatientsR01DA051464 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Majid Afshar · 2020 to 2026
$4.5M
Learning Universal Patient Representations with Hierarchical TransformersR01LM012973 · NLM · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Timothy A Miller · 2019 to 2026
$3.5M
Developing and Evaluating Multi-Modal Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning Models for Automated Diagnosis GenerationR00LM014308 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Yanjun Gao · 2024 to 2026
$726k
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA051464NLM NIH HHS R00 LM014308NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012973NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007359
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large Language Models have expanded the potential for clinical Natural Language Generation (NLG), presenting new opportunities to manage the vast amounts of medical text. However, their use in such high-stakes environments necessitate robust evaluation workflows. In this review, we investigated the current landscape of evaluation metrics for NLG in healthcare and proposed a future direction to address the resource constraints of expert human evaluation while balancing alignment with human judgments.

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PMID40124388
PMCPMC11928168

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