Majid Afshar

Toward a clinical text encoder: pretraining for clinical natural language processing with applications to substance misuse

2019 · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to develop algorithms for encoding clinical text into representations that can be used for a variety of phenotyping tasks. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Obtaining large datasets to take advantage of highly expressive …

Current and future state of evaluation of large language models for medical summarization tasks

2025 · npj Health Systems

Large Language Models have expanded the potential for clinical Natural Language Generation (NLG), presenting new opportunities to manage the vast amounts of medical text. However, their use in such high-stakes environments necessitate robust evaluation workflows. …