Facilitating Feature Selection and Extraction in Clinical Trials with Large Language Models
摘要
Research on clinical trials requires substantial background and technical knowledge. Large language models (LLMs) have already made a significant impact in various fields. We attempted to use general-purpose LLMs to assist newcomers in clinical trials, enabling them to quickly begin their work. In our work, we demonstrated that in the domain of clinical trials, the current cutting-edge LLMs can provide excellent recommendations for feature selection. By utilizing the features suggested by LLMs, we achieved a 2.5% improvement in AUC compared to complex neural network models when using simpler algorithms. We have also demonstrated that by adjusting the prompts, LLM can play a significant role in the feature extraction process. By adjusting the prompts for certain features suggested by LLM, LLM-assisted feature extraction achieved 100% accuracy in a random sample covering approximately 10% of the entire dataset.