Jörg C. Kalff

Development and validation of a pragmatic pipeline for clinical free-text annotation using locally deployed open-weight large language models

Clinical information required for surgical data science (SDS) is frequently embedded in unstructured text. We developed and evaluated a reproducible pipeline for selecting locally deployed open-weight large language models (LLMs) for binary symptom annotation. In this retrospective single-center study, 1,100 German eme...