Natural language processing models for patient-centered summaries of prostatectomy pathology reports
Parsa Iranmahboub, Priya Dave, Michael Hung, Joe Pelt, Hasan O. Ali, Kyle Blum, Ashwin Ramaswamy, B. Malik Wahba, Amalia Korniyenko, Aaron Huang, Juan Angulo-Lozano, Helen Xu, Evan Suzman, Lina Posada Calderon, Leonardo D. Borregales, Douglas S. Scherr · 2026
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Parsa Iranmahboub leads a sixteen-author team comparing in 2026 two ways to translate prostate surgery pathology reports into summaries patients can actually understand. Since patients now see these reports instantly online, often before their surgeon calls, jargon-heavy documents breed anxiety and message traffic. One contender followed hand-written rules; the other was a large language model prompted with no examples.
Error-free summaries came from ninety-two percent of the rule-based attempts and ninety-seven percent of the language model's, a gap too small to call significant. On reports from a second hospital with different formatting, the language model held up untrained while the rule system needed only minor tweaks to match it. Institutions can pick either framework to fit their budgets and governance.
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| CREATOR | Parsa Iranmahboub, Priya Dave, Michael Hung, Joe Pelt, Hasan O. Ali, Kyle Blum, Ashwin Ramaswamy, B. Malik Wahba, Amalia Korniyenko, Aaron Huang, Juan Angulo-Lozano, Helen Xu, Evan Suzman, Lina Posada Calderon, Leonardo D. Borregales, Douglas S. Scherr |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31890 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |