Leveraging Large Language Models for Colorectal Cancer Symptom Extraction from MIMIC-IV Clinical Notes
Background: Much of the symptom burden in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients is documented in unstructured discharge-note narrative, and manual extraction is not scalable. Whether large language models (LLMs) outperform rule-based and named entity recognition (NER) methods has not been rigorously benchmarked. Objective:...