Stephen Doogan
2024
Automating PTSD Diagnostics in Clinical Interviews: Leveraging Large Language Models for Trauma Assessments
Sichang Tu
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Abigail Powers
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Natalie Merrill
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Negar Fani
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Sierra Carter
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Stephen Doogan
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Jinho D. Choi
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
The shortage of clinical workforce presents significant challenges in mental healthcare, limiting access to formal diagnostics and services. We aim to tackle this shortage by integrating a customized large language model (LLM) into the workflow, thus promoting equity in mental healthcare for the general population. Although LLMs have showcased their capability in clinical decision-making, their adaptation to severe conditions like Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) remains largely unexplored. Therefore, we collect 411 clinician-administered diagnostic interviews and devise a novel approach to obtain high-quality data. Moreover, we build a comprehensive framework to automate PTSD diagnostic assessments based on interview contents by leveraging two state-of-the-art LLMs, GPT-4 and Llama-2, with potential for broader clinical diagnoses. Our results illustrate strong promise for LLMs, tested on our dataset, to aid clinicians in diagnostic validation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first AI system that fully automates assessments for mental illness based on clinician-administered interviews.
2022
Condition-Treatment Relation Extraction on Disease-related Social Media Data
Sichang Tu
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Stephen Doogan
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Jinho D. Choi
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI)
Social media has become a popular platform where people share information about personal healthcare conditions, diagnostic histories, and medical plans. Analyzing posts on social media depicting such realistic information can help improve quality and clinical decision-making; however, the lack of structured resources in this genre limits us to build robust NLP models for meaningful analysis. This paper presents a new corpus annotating relations among many types of conditions, treatments, and their attributes illustrated in social media posts by patients and caregivers. For experiments, a transformer encoder is pretrained on 1M raw posts and used to train several document-level relation extraction models using our corpus. Our best-performing model achieves the F1 scores of 70.9 and 51.7 for Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction, respectively. These results are encouraging as it is the first neural model extracting complex relations of this kind on social media data.
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