ππ Paper Synopsis: Laboratory-Scale AI: Open-Weight Models are Competitive with ChatGPT Even in Low-Resource Settings The rapid proliferation of generative AI has raised questions about the competitiveness of lower-parameter, locally tunable, open-weight models relative to high-parameter, API-guarded, closed-weight models in terms of performanc... Read more 01 Feb 2024 - 1 minute read
ππ Paper Synopsis: Top-down Green-ups: Satellite Sensing and Deep Models to Predict Buffelgrass Phenology An invasive species of grass known as βbuffelgrassβ contributes to severe wildfires and biodiversity loss in the Southwest United States. We tackle the problem of predicting buffelgrass βgreen-upsβ (i.e. readiness for herbicidal treatment).... Read more 01 Nov 2023 - less than 1 minute read
ππ Paper Synopsis: HuskyScribe at MEDIQA-Sum 2023: Summarizing Clinical Dialogues with Transformers Documentation burnout contributes to clinician job dissatisfaction, and clinical notes often omit salient information. The automatic generation of notes from doctor-patient conversations using a computerized medical scribe, referred to as a Digit... Read more 06 Sep 2023 - 1 minute read
ππ Paper Synopsis: Prompt-based Extraction of Social Determinants of Health Using Few-shot Learning Social determinants of health (SDOH) documented in the electronic health record through unstructured text are increasingly being studied to understand how SDOH impacts patient health outcomes. In this work, we utilize the Social History Annotatio... Read more 18 Jun 2023 - less than 1 minute read
ππ Paper Synopsis: LeafAI: query generator for clinical cohort discovery rivaling a human programmer Objective: Identifying study-eligible patients within clinical databases is a critical step in clinical research. However, accurate query design typically requires extensive technical and biomedical expertise. We sought to create a system capabl... Read more 13 Apr 2023 - 1 minute read