Flaxman to Present at CSSS Seminar on 2/19
Posted: 2/13/2025 ()
On Wednesday February 19th at 12:30pm, CSDE Abraham Flaxman (Dept. of Health Metrics Sciences) will give a seminar titled “When AI Outlistens Experts: Large Language Models as Tools for Verbal Autopsy Analysis.”
Verbal autopsy (VA) serves as a crucial tool for understanding causes of death in regions lacking comprehensive vital registration systems. However, current methods for analyzing VA data face significant limitations: physician review is resource-intensive and potentially biased, while existing computational approaches struggle with the complexity of death classification. This talk presents preliminary results from using large language models (LLMs) to interpret VA interviews and predict causes of pregnancy-related deaths. We evaluated ChatGPT-4 and Claude.ai across different prompting strategies and found that LLM-based classification achieves performance superior to physicians. I will discuss some implications of this, as well as methodological trade-offs, and future directions for this line of research.
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Meeting ID: 918 8920 4671