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A local language model layered with rule-based and neural detectors for clinical text de-identification: an open-source toolkit and evaluation
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- DeidSharp, an open-source toolkit, combines local LLM with rule-based and neural detectors to find protected health information in clinical text without sending data off-site.
- Why it matters
- Healthcare engineers building de-identification systems need locally-hosted solutions that balance recall and precision for compliance and privacy requirements.
- Watch out
- The LLM discarded a quarter of true PHI when asked to verify its own findings, and performance varies significantly between recall-first and precision-first configurations.
- llm
- language model
- entity recognition
- mixture-of-experts
- eval
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