The Radiation Oncology NLP Database

We present the Radiation Oncology NLP Database (ROND), the first dedicated Natural Language Processing (NLP) dataset for radiation oncology, an important medical specialty that has received limited attention from the NLP community in the past. With the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-01
Main Authors: Liu, Zhengliang, Holmes, Jason, Liao, Wenxiong, Liu, Chenbin, Zhang, Lian, Feng, Hongying, Wang, Peilong, Muhammad Ali Elahi, Cai, Hongmin, Sun, Lichao, Li, Quanzheng, Li, Xiang, Liu, Tianming, Shen, Jiajian, Liu, Wei
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Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Artificial intelligence
Datasets
Large language models
Natural language processing
Oncology
R&D
Radiation
Research & development
Tuning
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Summary:We present the Radiation Oncology NLP Database (ROND), the first dedicated Natural Language Processing (NLP) dataset for radiation oncology, an important medical specialty that has received limited attention from the NLP community in the past. With the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), there is an increasing need for specialized datasets and benchmarks to facilitate research and development. ROND is specifically designed to address this gap in the domain of radiation oncology, a field that offers many opportunities for NLP exploration. It encompasses various NLP tasks including Logic Reasoning, Text Classification, Named Entity Recognition (NER), Question Answering (QA), Text Summarization, and Patient-Clinician Conversations, each with a distinct focus on radiation oncology concepts and application cases. In addition, we have developed an instruction-tuning dataset consisting of over 20k instruction pairs (based on ROND) and trained a large language model, CancerChat. This serves to demonstrate the potential of instruction-tuning large language models within a highly-specialized medical domain. The evaluation results in this study could serve as baseline results for future research. ROND aims to stimulate advancements in radiation oncology and clinical NLP by offering a platform for testing and improving algorithms and models in a domain-specific context. The ROND dataset is a joint effort of multiple U.S. health institutions. The data is available at https://github.com/zl-liu/Radiation-Oncology-NLP-Database.
ISSN:2331-8422