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The relationship of a patient with a hospital from admission to discharge is often kept in a series of textual documents that describe the patient’s journey. These documents are important to analyze the different steps of the clinical process and to make aggregated studies of the paths of patients in the hospital. In this paper, we explore the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate realistic and comprehensive patient journeys in European Portuguese, addressing the scarcity of medical data in this specific context. We employed Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash model and utilized a dataset of 285 European Portuguese published case reports from the SPMI website, published by the Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine, as references for generating synthetic medical reports. Our methodology involves a sequential approach to generating a synthetic patient journey. Initially, we generate an admission report, followed by a discharge report. Subsequently, we generate a comprehensive patient journey that integrates the admission, multiple daily progress reports, and the discharge into a cohesive narrative. This end-to-end process ensures a realistic and detailed representation of the patient’s clinical pathway as a patient’s journey. The generated reports were rigorously evaluated by medical and linguistic professionals, as well as automatic metrics to measure the inclusion of key medical entities, similarity to the case report, and correct Portuguese variant. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations confirmed that the generated synthetic reports are predominantly written in European Portuguese without the loss of important medical information from the case reports. This work contributes to developing high-quality synthetic medical data for training LLMs and advancing AI-driven healthcare applications in under-resourced language settings.

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Recently, learning-based image compression has attracted a lot of attention, leading to the development of a new JPEG AI standard based on neural networks. Typically, this type of coding solution has much lower encoding complexity compared to conventional coding standards such as HEVC and VVC (Intra mode) but has much higher decoding complexity. Therefore, to promote the wide adoption of learning-based image compression, especially to resource-constrained (such as mobile) devices, it is important to achieve lower decoding complexity even if at the cost of some coding efficiency. This paper proposes a complexity scalable decoder that can control the decoding complexity by proposing a novel procedure to learn the filters of the convolutional layers at the decoder by varying the number of channels at each layer, effectively having simple to more complex decoding networks. A regularization loss is employed with pruning after training to obtain a set of scalable layers, which may use more or fewer channels depending on the complexity budget. Experimental results show that complexity can be significantly reduced while still allowing a competitive rate-distortion performance.

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Nowadays, due to the growing demand for interdisciplinary research and innovation, different scientific communities pay substantial attention to cross-domain collaboration. However, having only information retrieval technologies in hands might be not enough to find prospective collaborators due to the large volume of stored bibliographic records in scholarly databases and unawareness about emerging cross-disciplinary trends. To address this issue, the endorsement of the cross-disciplinary scientific alliances have been introduced as a new tool for scientific research and technological modernization. In this paper, we use a state-of-art knowledge representation technique named Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and demonstrate how clustering of learned KGs embeddings helps to build a cross-disciplinary co-author recommendation system. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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