7th Global Gastroenterology and Artificial Intelligence Summit (Live)

3 - Talby

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David Talby, CEO of John Snow Labs, presents how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing gastroenterology (GI) by addressing practical clinical challenges through three key areas: guideline adherence, quality audits, and research enablement.<br /><br />In guideline adherence, AI models like EndoBERT and PathBERT extract critical details from endoscopy and pathology notes (e.g., Barrett's esophagus length, dysplasia grade) to recommend surveillance schedules per ASGE/ACG guidelines. This automation standardizes inputs, reduces manual abstraction, and ensures timely follow-ups. Similar tools flag high-risk pathology findings, improving patient management pathways.<br /><br />Quality audits leverage NLP/large language models (LLMs) to automate detection rate (ADR/SDR) calculations, bleeding events, withdrawal times, and prep quality from routine clinical documentation—tasks traditionally labor-intensive. This real-time, scalable auditing supports quality improvement programs and reimbursement accuracy. Small, task-specific medical language models can exceed general LLMs in accuracy, reliability, speed, and cost-effectiveness, particularly for precise roles like de-identification.<br /><br />For research enablement, AI extracts structured data from multimodal clinical sources, enabling large-scale cohort building, symptom tracking, imaging AI labeling, and registry development. Examples include Crohn’s active disease tagging from radiology reports and extracting patient-reported outcomes for inflammatory bowel disease. Regulatory-grade de-identification software safeguards patient privacy while preserving data utility for multi-site research.<br /><br />Blind evaluations by clinicians show medical-domain LLMs outperform general models in clinical information extraction, summarization, factuality, and relevancy. John Snow Labs’ solutions are noted for exceeding human expert accuracy and are significantly more cost-efficient than leading APIs.<br /><br />The presentation also stresses the imperative of AI governance, including compliance with over 250 laws and standards, automated testing, monitoring, and benchmarks to ensure ethical, safe, and privacy-preserving healthcare AI deployment.<br /><br />In sum, domain-specific NLP and AI tools are transforming GI care by enhancing guideline adherence, automating quality measurement, and accelerating clinical research with high accuracy, efficiency, and regulatory rigor.

Keywords

Natural Language Processing

Artificial Intelligence

Gastroenterology

Guideline Adherence

Quality Audits

Research Enablement

Medical Language Models

Clinical Information Extraction

AI Governance

De-identification