Generative A-Powered Extraction of Immune-Related Adverse Events From Oncology Case Reports

Author(s)

Fernando Andres Martin, MS1, Manuel Cossio, MPhil, MS2.
1Cytel, Boston, MA, USA, 2Director, Artificial Intelligence Lead, Cytel, Dubendorf, Switzerland.
OBJECTIVES: This study assesses the feasibility of using an open AI large language model (LLM) to automatically construct a database of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) from unstructured case reports.
METHODS: Open-access pembrolizumab case reports were retrieved from Google Scholar using the terms “oncology” and “pembrolizumab.” A prompt was designed and iteratively optimized across six cycles on an initial report to extract eight fields: article (author, year), patient age, sex, ethnicity, baseline weight, initial findings, oncological treatment, and reported irAEs. Extraction accuracy was assessed against manual, human-in-the-loop annotations. Concordance was scored as follows: 2 points for full concordance, 1 point for partial concordance, and 0 points for hallucinated or incorrect content.
RESULTS: After uploading the 38 reports as a knowledge source, the LLM generated the complete extraction table in 18 s. Mean accuracy across all fields was 0.78. Field-specific performance varied: oncological treatment 0.97; sex, ethnicity, and weight 0.86; author + year 0.84; age 0.78; and reported irAEs 0.73. The lowest accuracy corresponded to the field with the highest contextual complexity.
CONCLUSIONS: The proposed generative-AI workflow rapidly produced a structured irAE database from complex narrative reports in under 20 s with acceptable overall accuracy. Refinement of prompt engineering, particularly for context-rich variables, is warranted to achieve fully reliable automated curation.

Conference/Value in Health Info

2025-11, ISPOR Europe 2025, Glasgow, Scotland

Value in Health, Volume 28, Issue S2

Code

MT21

Topic

Clinical Outcomes, Medical Technologies, Methodological & Statistical Research

Topic Subcategory

Digital Health

Disease

Oncology

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