MediFact at MEDIQA-CORR 2024: Why AI Needs a Human Touch
It addresses error correction in clinical text for healthcare applications, representing an incremental improvement with a focus on human-centric AI adaptation.
This paper tackles the problem of correcting single-word errors in clinical notes by developing a supervised learning framework that integrates domain expertise and contextually relevant information extraction, achieving improved accuracy in the MEDIQA-CORR 2024 shared task.
Accurate representation of medical information is crucial for patient safety, yet artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), encounter challenges in error-free clinical text interpretation. This paper presents a novel approach submitted to the MEDIQA-CORR 2024 shared task (Ben Abacha et al., 2024a), focusing on the automatic correction of single-word errors in clinical notes. Unlike LLMs that rely on extensive generic data, our method emphasizes extracting contextually relevant information from available clinical text data. Leveraging an ensemble of extractive and abstractive question-answering approaches, we construct a supervised learning framework with domain-specific feature engineering. Our methodology incorporates domain expertise to enhance error correction accuracy. By integrating domain expertise and prioritizing meaningful information extraction, our approach underscores the significance of a human-centric strategy in adapting AI for healthcare.