Reasoning Like a Doctor: Improving Medical Dialogue Systems via Diagnostic Reasoning Process Alignment (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Medical dialogue systems have attracted significant attention for their potential to act as medical assistants. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that emulates clinicians' diagnostic reasoning processes and aligns with clinician preferences through thought process modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework generates appropriate responses that relies on abductive and deductive diagnostic reasoning analyses and aligns with clinician preferences through thought process modeling. |
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