arXiv:2510.03536cs.CLcs.AI2025-10中稿 · EMNLP

用图结构记忆病人病史,让AI医生更懂病情追问

GraphMed-LT: Patient-Specific Graph Memory with Latent Clinical Thought Refinement for Multi-Turn Medical Conversations

  • 构建病人专属图记忆,动态整合问诊信息
  • 在三个数据集上超越最强基线6.3个百分点
  • 适合需要连续问诊的临床推理场景

多轮医学问答旨在模拟真实临床诊断过程,医生需通过多轮对话收集患者信息。现有系统虽有进展,但多依赖累积对话历史作为记忆,导致临床证据分散于各轮对话中。本文提出GraphMed-LT,一种基于患者特定图记忆与潜在临床思维精炼的多轮医学对话方法。该方法从患者回复中提取个体化临床三元组,检索相关知识三元组,并构建可增量更新的图记忆结构。图记忆被投影为图条件证据令牌,并通过可训练医生代理中的隐藏状态反馈进行精炼,使代理在提问或作答前能更新内部临床上下文。在三个多轮医学问答基准上的实验表明,GraphMed-LT在多种大模型基础上均显著优于现有基线,最高实现6.3个百分点的绝对提升。进一步分析显示,该方法能提出更多可回答的后续问题,并在多个医学专科中保持稳定增益。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multi-turn medical question answering (QA) aims to model realistic clinical diagnosis, where a doctor gathers patient information across multiple turns of conversation. Existing multi-turn medical conversation systems have shown promising progress, but they often rely on accumulated conversation histories as memory, leaving clinical evidence fragmented across turns. We propose GraphMed-LT, a patient-specific graph memory approach with latent clinical thought refinement for multi-turn medical conversations. GraphMed-LT extracts patient-specific clinical triplets from patient responses, retrieves relevant knowledge triplets, and organises them into an incrementally updated graph memory. The graph memory is projected into graph-conditioned evidence tokens and refined inside a trainable doctor agent through hidden-state feedback, enabling the agent to update its internal clinical context before asking follow-up questions or producing the final answer. Experiments on three multi-turn medical QA benchmarks show that GraphMed-LT consistently outperforms existing multi-turn medical conversation baselines across multiple LLM backbones, achieving up to a 6.3 percentage-point absolute improvement over the strongest baseline. Further analyses show that GraphMed-LT asks more answerable follow-up questions and provides consistent gains across medical specialties.

医疗对话图神经网络多轮问答临床推理

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