medIKAL: Integrating Knowledge Graphs as Assistants of LLMs for Enhanced Clinical Diagnosis on EMRs (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are the digitized record of a patient's medical and health information and are integral to modern healthcare. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with knowledge graphs (KGs) to enhance diagnostic capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assigns weighted importance to entities in medical records based on their type, enabling precise localization of candidate diseases within KGs. |
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