arXiv:2410.12476cs.CLcs.LG2024-10被引 7

用大模型生成带真实结局的合成临床试验,解决数据隐私与稀缺问题。

Retrieval-Reasoning Large Language Model-based Synthetic Clinical Trial Generation

  • 通过检索+推理框架,让大模型生成有依据的临床试验报告。
  • 混合使用合成与真实数据微调,预测准确率提升显著。
  • 适合医疗数据受限的研究者,尤其关注隐私保护的应用场景。

机器学习在临床应用中潜力巨大,但受限于隐私顾虑、高昂成本和漫长周期导致高质量数据获取困难。尽管大语言模型在通用生成任务中表现优异,但在合成真实临床试验方面仍研究不足。本文提出一种基于检索-推理的新型框架,利用少量示例提示(few-shot prompting)驱动大模型生成标注了二元成功/失败结果的合成临床试验报告。该方法融合检索模块以确保生成内容基于相关试验数据,并通过推理模块保证领域一致性解释。在ClinicalTrials.gov数据库的真实临床试验上进行实验,结果表明合成试验能有效扩充真实数据集。将BioBERT分类器在合成数据、真实数据或二者结合的数据上微调,结果显示混合微调在临床试验结果预测任务中性能更优。研究证明,基于大模型的合成数据可作为隐私保护下的数据增强强大工具。代码已公开于https://github.com/XuZR3x/Retrieval_Reasoning_Clinical_Trial_Generation。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Machine learning (ML) holds great promise for clinical applications but is often hindered by limited access to high-quality data due to privacy concerns, high costs, and long timelines associated with clinical trials. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in general-purpose generation tasks, their application to synthesizing realistic clinical trials remains underexplored. In this work, we propose a novel Retrieval-Reasoning framework that leverages few-shot prompting with LLMs to generate synthetic clinical trial reports annotated with binary success/failure outcomes. Our approach integrates a retrieval module to ground the generation on relevant trial data and a reasoning module to ensure domain-consistent justifications. Experiments conducted on real clinical trials from the ClinicalTrials.gov database demonstrate that the generated synthetic trials effectively augment real datasets. Fine-tuning a BioBERT classifier on synthetic data, real data, or their combination shows that hybrid fine-tuning leads to improved performance on clinical trial outcome prediction tasks. Our results suggest that LLM-based synthetic data can serve as a powerful tool for privacy-preserving data augmentation in clinical research. The code is available at https://github.com/XuZR3x/Retrieval_Reasoning_Clinical_Trial_Generation.

临床试验大模型生成数据增强隐私保护

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