MaLei at MultiClinSUM: Summarisation of Clinical Documents using Perspective-Aware Iterative Self-Prompting with LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07622v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:52:16 GMT
• Title: MaLei at MultiClinSUM: Summarisation of Clinical Documents using Perspective-Aware Iterative Self-Prompting with LLMs
• Authors: Libo Ren, Yee Man Ng, Lifeng Han,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents the methodology we applied in the MultiClinSUM shared task for summarising clinical case documents.<n>We used an Iterative Self-Prompting technique on large language models (LLMs) by asking LLMs to generate task-specific prompts.<n>We used lexical and embedding space metrics, ROUGE and BERT-score, to guide the model fine-tuning with epochs.
• Score: 5.40185721303932
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Efficient communication between patients and clinicians plays an important role in shared decision-making. However, clinical reports are often lengthy and filled with clinical jargon, making it difficult for domain experts to identify important aspects in the document efficiently. This paper presents the methodology we applied in the MultiClinSUM shared task for summarising clinical case documents. We used an Iterative Self-Prompting technique on large language models (LLMs) by asking LLMs to generate task-specific prompts and refine them via example-based few-shot learning. Furthermore, we used lexical and embedding space metrics, ROUGE and BERT-score, to guide the model fine-tuning with epochs. Our submission using perspective-aware ISP on GPT-4 and GPT-4o achieved ROUGE scores (46.53, 24.68, 30.77) and BERTscores (87.84, 83.25, 85.46) for (P, R, F1) from the official evaluation on 3,396 clinical case reports from various specialties extracted from open journals. The high BERTscore indicates that the model produced semantically equivalent output summaries compared to the references, even though the overlap at the exact lexicon level is lower, as reflected in the lower ROUGE scores. This work sheds some light on how perspective-aware ISP (PA-ISP) can be deployed for clinical report summarisation and support better communication between patients and clinicians.

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