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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2024

LLMs-based Few-Shot Disease Predictions using EHR: A Novel Approach Combining Predictive Agent Reasoning and Critical Agent Instruction.

Hejie Cui, Zhuocheng Shen, Jieyu Zhang, Hui Shao, Lianhui Qin, Joyce C Ho, Carl Yang

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Hejie CuiDepartment of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Zhuocheng ShenDepartment of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Jieyu ZhangSchool of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Hui ShaoRollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Lianhui QinDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA.
Joyce C HoDepartment of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Carl YangDepartment of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Funding

Understanding Diabetes Heterogeneity via Mining Multimodality Interconnected DataK25DK135913 · NIDDK · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Ji Carl Yang · 2023 to 2026
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NIDDK NIH HHS K25 DK135913
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain valuable patient data for health-related prediction tasks, such as disease prediction. Traditional approaches rely on supervised learning methods that require large labeled datasets, which can be expensive and challenging to obtain. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to convert structured patient visit data (e.g., diagnoses, labs, prescriptions) into natural language narratives. We evaluate the zero-shot and few-shot performance of LLMs using various EHR-prediction-oriented prompting strategies. Furthermore, we propose a novel approach that utilizes LLM agents with different roles: a predictor agent that makes predictions and generates reasoning processes and a critic agent that analyzes incorrect predictions and provides guidance for improving the reasoning of the predictor agent. Our results demonstrate that with the proposed approach, LLMs can achieve decent few-shot performance compared to traditional supervised learning methods in EHR-based disease predictions, suggesting its potential for health-oriented applications.

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Electronic Health RecordsNatural Language ProcessingHumansMachine Learning

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PMID40417470
PMCPMC12099430

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