A Perspective for Adapting Generalist AI to Specialized Medical AI Applications and Their Challenges

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00024v2
• Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:41:08 GMT
• Title: A Perspective for Adapting Generalist AI to Specialized Medical AI Applications and Their Challenges
• Authors: Zifeng Wang, Hanyin Wang, Benjamin Danek, Ying Li, Christina Mack, Hoifung Poon, Yajuan Wang, Pranav Rajpurkar, Jimeng Sun,
• Abstract summary: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into medical applications has sparked widespread interest across the healthcare industry. This perspective paper aims to discuss the inner workings of building LLM-powered medical AI applications.
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• Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into medical applications has sparked widespread interest across the healthcare industry, from drug discovery and development to clinical decision support, assisting telemedicine, medical devices, and healthcare insurance applications. This perspective paper aims to discuss the inner workings of building LLM-powered medical AI applications and introduces a comprehensive framework for their development. We review existing literature and outline the unique challenges of applying LLMs in specialized medical contexts. Additionally, we introduce a three-step framework to organize medical LLM research activities: 1) Modeling: breaking down complex medical workflows into manageable steps for developing medical-specific models; 2) Optimization: optimizing the model performance with crafted prompts and integrating external knowledge and tools, and 3) System engineering: decomposing complex tasks into subtasks and leveraging human expertise for building medical AI applications. Furthermore, we offer a detailed use case playbook that describes various LLM-powered medical AI applications, such as optimizing clinical trial design, enhancing clinical decision support, and advancing medical imaging analysis. Finally, we discuss various challenges and considerations for building medical AI applications with LLMs, such as handling hallucination issues, data ownership and compliance, privacy, intellectual property considerations, compute cost, sustainability issues, and responsible AI requirements.

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