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| Challenge: | Medical coding is time-consuming and error-prone due to large label space, lengthy text inputs, and the absence of supporting evidence annotations. |
| Approach: | They propose a Generative AI framework for automatic medical coding that leverages extraction, retrieval, and re-ranking techniques as core components. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code prediction scale. |
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