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ArticleProceedings. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics2025

Lab-AI: Using Retrieval Augmentation to Enhance Language Models for Personalized Lab Test Interpretation in Clinical Medicine.

Xiaoyu Wang, Haoyong Ouyang, Balu Bhasuran, Xiao Luo, Karim Hanna, Mia Liza A Lustria, Zhe He

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Article in Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Xiaoyu WangDepartment of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Haoyong OuyangDepartment of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Balu BhasuranSchool of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Florida.
Xiao LuoSpears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
Karim HannaMorsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
Mia Liza A LustriaCollege of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Zhe HeSchool of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

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Using social networks to map and evaluate team science across CTSA hubsUL1TR001427 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI MITCHELL, DUANE A. · 2015 to 2024
$37.2M
AHRQ HHS R21 HS029969NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001427
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Abstract

Accurate interpretation of lab results is crucial in clinical medicine, yet most patient portals use universal normal ranges, ignoring conditional factors like age and gender. This study introduces Lab-AI, an interactive system that offers personalized normal ranges using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) from credible health sources. Lab-AI has two modules: factor retrieval and normal range retrieval. We tested these on 122 lab tests: 40 with conditional factors and 82 without. For tests with factors, normal ranges depend on patient-specific information. Our results show GPT-4-turbo with RAG achieved a 0.948 F1 score for factor retrieval and 0.995 accuracy for normal range retrieval. GPT-4-turbo with RAG outperformed the best non-RAG system by 33.5% in factor retrieval and showed 132% and 100% improvements in question-level and lab-level performance, respectively, for normal range retrieval. These findings highlight Lab-AI's potential to enhance patient understanding of lab results.

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Lab test InterpretationPersonalized Information RetrievalRetrieval Augmented Generation

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PMID41409767
PMCPMC12707499

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