Development and Evaluation of a Digital Scribe: Conversation Summarization Pipeline for Emergency Department Counseling Sessions towards Reducing Documentation Burden
Emre Sezgin,
Joseph Sirrianni,
Kelly Kranz
Abstract:ObjectiveWe present a proof-of-concept digital scribe system as an ED clinical conversation summarization pipeline and report its performance.Materials and MethodsWe use four pre-trained large language models to establish the digital scribe system: T5-small, T5-base, PEGASUS-PubMed, and BART-Large-CNN via zero-shot and fine-tuning approaches. Our dataset includes 100 referral conversations among ED clinicians and medical records. We report the ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-L to compare model performance. In addi… Show more
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