no code implementations • 12 Mar 2024 • Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, Shih-Cheng Huang, Yanbo Xu, Hanwen Xu, Naoto Usuyama, Sheng Zhang, Fei Wang, Yujia Xie, Mahmoud Khademi, ZiYi Yang, Hany Awadalla, Julia Gong, Houdong Hu, Jianwei Yang, Chunyuan Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yu Gu, Cliff Wong, Mu Wei, Tristan Naumann, Muhao Chen, Matthew P. Lungren, Akshay Chaudhari, Serena Yeung-Levy, Curtis P. Langlotz, Sheng Wang, Hoifung Poon
Frontier general-domain models such as GPT-4V still have significant performance gaps in multimodal biomedical applications.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2024 • Ho Hin Lee, Yu Gu, Theodore Zhao, Yanbo Xu, Jianwei Yang, Naoto Usuyama, Cliff Wong, Mu Wei, Bennett A. Landman, Yuankai Huo, Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Hoifung Poon
This transformative technology, originally developed for general-purpose computer vision, has found rapid application in medical image processing.
2 code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • Yiqing Xie, Sheng Zhang, Hao Cheng, PengFei Liu, Zelalem Gero, Cliff Wong, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon, Carolyn Rose
Medical text generation aims to assist with administrative work and highlight salient information to support decision-making.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2023 • Javier González, Cliff Wong, Zelalem Gero, Jass Bagga, Risa Ueno, Isabel Chien, Eduard Oravkin, Emre Kiciman, Aditya Nori, Roshanthi Weerasinghe, Rom S. Leidner, Brian Piening, Tristan Naumann, Carlo Bifulco, Hoifung Poon
The rapid digitization of real-world data offers an unprecedented opportunity for optimizing healthcare delivery and accelerating biomedical discovery.
no code implementations • 4 Aug 2023 • Cliff Wong, Sheng Zhang, Yu Gu, Christine Moung, Jacob Abel, Naoto Usuyama, Roshanthi Weerasinghe, Brian Piening, Tristan Naumann, Carlo Bifulco, Hoifung Poon
Clinical trial matching is a key process in health delivery and discovery.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2023 • Yu Gu, Sheng Zhang, Naoto Usuyama, Yonas Woldesenbet, Cliff Wong, Praneeth Sanapathi, Mu Wei, Naveen Valluri, Erika Strandberg, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon
We find that while LLMs already possess decent competency in structuring biomedical text, by distillation into a task-specific student model through self-supervised learning, substantial gains can be attained over out-of-box LLMs, with additional advantages such as cost, efficiency, and white-box model access.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Chunyuan Li, Cliff Wong, Sheng Zhang, Naoto Usuyama, Haotian Liu, Jianwei Yang, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon, Jianfeng Gao
In this paper, we propose a cost-efficient approach for training a vision-language conversational assistant that can answer open-ended research questions of biomedical images.
4 code implementations • 2 Mar 2023 • Sheng Zhang, Yanbo Xu, Naoto Usuyama, Hanwen Xu, Jaspreet Bagga, Robert Tinn, Sam Preston, Rajesh Rao, Mu Wei, Naveen Valluri, Cliff Wong, Andrea Tupini, Yu Wang, Matt Mazzola, Swadheen Shukla, Lars Liden, Jianfeng Gao, Angela Crabtree, Brian Piening, Carlo Bifulco, Matthew P. Lungren, Tristan Naumann, Sheng Wang, Hoifung Poon
Therefore, training an effective generalist biomedical model requires high-quality multimodal data, such as parallel image-text pairs.
Ranked #2 on Medical Visual Question Answering on SLAKE-English
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2021 • Sheng Zhang, Hao Cheng, Shikhar Vashishth, Cliff Wong, Jinfeng Xiao, Xiaodong Liu, Tristan Naumann, Jianfeng Gao, Hoifung Poon
Zero-shot entity linking has emerged as a promising direction for generalizing to new entities, but it still requires example gold entity mentions during training and canonical descriptions for all entities, both of which are rarely available outside of Wikipedia.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Sheng Zhang, Cliff Wong, Naoto Usuyama, Sarthak Jain, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon
Extracting relations across large text spans has been relatively underexplored in NLP, but it is particularly important for high-value domains such as biomedicine, where obtaining high recall of the latest findings is crucial for practical applications.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2021 • Yu Wang, Jinchao Li, Tristan Naumann, Chenyan Xiong, Hao Cheng, Robert Tinn, Cliff Wong, Naoto Usuyama, Richard Rogahn, Zhihong Shen, Yang Qin, Eric Horvitz, Paul N. Bennett, Jianfeng Gao, Hoifung Poon
A prominent case in point is the explosion of the biomedical literature on COVID-19, which swelled to hundreds of thousands of papers in a matter of months.
no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Robin Jia, Cliff Wong, Hoifung Poon
Most information extraction methods focus on binary relations expressed within single sentences.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2019 • Robin Jia, Cliff Wong, Hoifung Poon
Widening the system's purview to the entire document maximizes potential recall.