Towards Scalable SOAP Note Generation: A Weakly Supervised Multimodal Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10328v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:33:46 GMT
• Title: Towards Scalable SOAP Note Generation: A Weakly Supervised Multimodal Framework
• Authors: Sadia Kamal, Tim Oates, Joy Wan,
• Abstract summary: Skin carcinoma is the most prevalent form of cancer globally, accounting for over $8 billion in annual healthcare expenditures.<n>In this work, we propose a weakly supervised multimodal framework to generate clinically structured SOAP notes from limited inputs, including lesion images and sparse clinical text.
• Score: 2.628362851671667
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Skin carcinoma is the most prevalent form of cancer globally, accounting for over $8 billion in annual healthcare expenditures. In clinical settings, physicians document patient visits using detailed SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) notes. However, manually generating these notes is labor-intensive and contributes to clinician burnout. In this work, we propose a weakly supervised multimodal framework to generate clinically structured SOAP notes from limited inputs, including lesion images and sparse clinical text. Our approach reduces reliance on manual annotations, enabling scalable, clinically grounded documentation while alleviating clinician burden and reducing the need for large annotated data. Our method achieves performance comparable to GPT-4o, Claude, and DeepSeek Janus Pro across key clinical relevance metrics. To evaluate clinical quality, we introduce two novel metrics MedConceptEval and Clinical Coherence Score (CCS) which assess semantic alignment with expert medical concepts and input features, respectively.

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