让AI自动设计医疗编码流程,提升准确率和可解释性。
MedDCR: Learning to Design Agentic Workflows for Medical Coding
- 用闭环学习框架自动设计多步骤编码工作流
- 在基准数据集上超越现有最先进方法
- 适合需要高可靠性的医疗AI系统开发者
医疗编码将自由文本的临床记录转化为标准化的诊断与操作代码,对医保报销、医院运营和医学研究至关重要。与普通文本分类不同,它需多步推理:提取诊断概念、应用指南约束、映射到层级编码簿,并确保跨文档一致性。近期进展利用代理型大模型,但多数依赖僵化的人工工作流,无法捕捉真实文档的复杂性与变异性,如何系统化学习高效工作流仍待解决。我们提出MedDCR,一个闭环框架,将工作流设计视为学习问题:设计师提出流程,编码器执行,反思者评估结果并提供反馈,记忆库保存过往设计以支持复用与迭代优化。在基准数据集上,MedDCR优于现有最先进方法,生成可解释、可适应的工作流,更贴近真实编码实践,提升了自动化系统的可靠性与可信度。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Medical coding converts free-text clinical notes into standardized diagnostic and procedural codes, which are essential for billing, hospital operations, and medical research. Unlike ordinary text classification, it requires multi-step reasoning: extracting diagnostic concepts, applying guideline constraints, mapping to hierarchical codebooks, and ensuring cross-document consistency. Recent advances leverage agentic LLMs, but most rely on rigid, manually crafted workflows that fail to capture the nuance and variability of real-world documentation, leaving open the question of how to systematically learn effective workflows. We present MedDCR, a closed-loop framework that treats workflow design as a learning problem. A Designer proposes workflows, a Coder executes them, and a Reflector evaluates predictions and provides constructive feedback, while a memory archive preserves prior designs for reuse and iterative refinement. On benchmark datasets, MedDCR outperforms state-of-the-art baselines and produces interpretable, adaptable workflows that better reflect real coding practice, improving both the reliability and trustworthiness of automated systems.
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