SECRET: Semi-supervised Clinical Trial Document Similarity Search (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Clinical trials are resource-intensive, time-consuming and expensive to conduct, where errors in trial design, reduced efficacy, and safety events can result in significant delays, financial losses, and damage to reputation. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to summarize clinical trial protocols and search for similar trials based on a query protocol to identify similar historical trials. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly outperforms baselines in recall@1 and precision@1 searches and zero-shot patient-trial matching, highlighting its superior utility in these tasks. |
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