Automated redaction of names in adverse event reports using transformer-based neural networks

Today's article comes from the BMC journal of Medical Informatics and Decision Making. The authors are Meldau et al., from the Uppsala Monitoring Center. In this paper they fine-tune an LLM to address a deceptively difficult problem: redacting names from medical reports.

DOI: 10.1186/s12911-024-02785-9