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ArticlePloS one2024

AE-GPT: Using Large Language Models to extract adverse events from surveillance reports-A use case with influenza vaccine adverse events.

Yiming Li, Jianfu Li, Jianping He, Cui Tao

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Article in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yiming LiMcWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8784-1745
Jianfu LiDepartment of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, United States of America.
Jianping HeMcWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Cui TaoDepartment of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4267-1924
Mayo Clinic in Florida · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · US

Funding

VIOLIN 2.0: Vaccine Information and Ontology LInked kNowledgebaseU24AI171008 · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2025 to 2025
$726k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI130460NIAID NIH HHS U24 AI171008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though Vaccines are instrumental in global health, mitigating infectious diseases and pandemic outbreaks, they can occasionally lead to adverse events (AEs). Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in effectively identifying and cataloging AEs within clinical reports. Utilizing data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from 1990 to 2016, this study particularly focuses on AEs to evaluate LLMs' capability for AE extraction. A variety of prevalent LLMs, including GPT-2, GPT-3 variants, GPT-4, and Llama2, were evaluated using Influenza vaccine as a use case. The fine-tuned GPT 3.5 model (AE-GPT) stood out with a 0.704 averaged micro F1 score for strict match and 0.816 for relaxed match. The encouraging performance of the AE-GPT underscores LLMs' potential in processing medical data, indicating a significant stride towards advanced AE detection, thus presumably generalizable to other AE extraction tasks.

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Influenza, HumanInfluenza VaccinesAdverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsAlanine TransaminaseDisease OutbreaksHumansAlanine TransaminaseInfluenza Vaccines

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PMID38512919
PMCPMC10956752
OpenAlexW4393063345

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