A Survey for Large Language Models in Biomedicine

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00133v1
• Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:39:16 GMT
• Title: A Survey for Large Language Models in Biomedicine
• Authors: Chong Wang, Mengyao Li, Junjun He, Zhongruo Wang, Erfan Darzi, Zan Chen, Jin Ye, Tianbin Li, Yanzhou Su, Jing Ke, Kaili Qu, Shuxin Li, Yi Yu, Pietro Liò, Tianyun Wang, Yu Guang Wang, Yiqing Shen,
• Abstract summary: This review is based on an analysis of 484 publications sourced from databases including PubMed, Web of Science, and arXiv. We explore the capabilities of LLMs in zero-shot learning across a broad spectrum of biomedical tasks, including diagnostic assistance, drug discovery, and personalized medicine. We discuss the challenges that LLMs face in the biomedicine domain including data privacy concerns, limited model interpretability, issues with dataset quality, and ethics.
• Score: 31.719451674137844
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) offer unprecedented natural language understanding and generation capabilities. However, existing surveys on LLMs in biomedicine often focus on specific applications or model architectures, lacking a comprehensive analysis that integrates the latest advancements across various biomedical domains. This review, based on an analysis of 484 publications sourced from databases including PubMed, Web of Science, and arXiv, provides an in-depth examination of the current landscape, applications, challenges, and prospects of LLMs in biomedicine, distinguishing itself by focusing on the practical implications of these models in real-world biomedical contexts. Firstly, we explore the capabilities of LLMs in zero-shot learning across a broad spectrum of biomedical tasks, including diagnostic assistance, drug discovery, and personalized medicine, among others, with insights drawn from 137 key studies. Then, we discuss adaptation strategies of LLMs, including fine-tuning methods for both uni-modal and multi-modal LLMs to enhance their performance in specialized biomedical contexts where zero-shot fails to achieve, such as medical question answering and efficient processing of biomedical literature. Finally, we discuss the challenges that LLMs face in the biomedicine domain including data privacy concerns, limited model interpretability, issues with dataset quality, and ethics due to the sensitive nature of biomedical data, the need for highly reliable model outputs, and the ethical implications of deploying AI in healthcare. To address these challenges, we also identify future research directions of LLM in biomedicine including federated learning methods to preserve data privacy and integrating explainable AI methodologies to enhance the transparency of LLMs.

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