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LLMs evaluated for medical applications and rare disease modeling

Researchers have developed two distinct approaches utilizing large language models (LLMs) in the medical field. The first, HealMed, is a new benchmark designed for multilingual evaluation of LLMs in medicine, featuring 1,000 examples across nine languages and developed by 23 medical experts. The second approach uses LLMs as synthetic clinical experts to improve longitudinal modeling of rare diseases, specifically demonstrating success in predicting motor function milestones for children with spinal muscular atrophy by integrating LLM-derived clinical knowledge into a variational autoencoder. AI

IMPACT LLMs show promise in both evaluating medical knowledge across languages and enhancing rare disease modeling with synthetic clinical expertise.

RANK_REASON Two research papers published on arXiv detailing novel applications of LLMs in medicine.

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LLMs evaluated for medical applications and rare disease modeling

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yingjian Chen (Drew), Fan Gao (Drew), Sherry T. Tong (Drew), Haoyu Zhang (Drew), Aosong Feng (Drew), Kevin W. Jin (Drew), Xing Wu (Drew), Jinghui Lu (Drew), Abdul Samad (Drew), Akbar Faruqi (Drew), Cesar Caraballo (Drew), Cibele Brand\~ao (Drew), Dhruva… ·

    HealMed: Multilingual Evaluation of Large Language Models in Medicine

    arXiv:2608.19981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HealMed, an expert-reviewed benchmark for multilingual evaluation of large language models in medicine. HealMed contains 1,000 examples in each of nine languages, drawn from nine datasets and covering three task formats: …

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Clemens Sch\"achter, Astrid Pechmann, Janbernd Kirschner, Jan Hasenauer, Harald Binder ·

    Large language models as synthetic clinical experts to inform longitudinal rare-disease modeling

    arXiv:2608.16507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the limited amount of information, modeling longitudinal rare-disease data can benefit from integrating clinical knowledge. Yet, elicitation of expert knowledge and formalization for model fitting is challenging, in particula…