Radiology-GPT: A Large Language Model for Radiology

TL;DR

Radiology-GPT is a specialized large language model trained on radiology data, demonstrating enhanced diagnostic and communication capabilities, paving the way for tailored clinical NLP tools in healthcare.

Contribution

This work introduces Radiology-GPT, a domain-specific LLM trained with instruction tuning on radiology data, outperforming general models and supporting clinical applications.

Findings

Superior performance over general language models in radiology tasks

Versatility in diagnosis, research, and communication

Potential for personalized medical AI models

Abstract

We introduce Radiology-GPT, a large language model for radiology. Using an instruction tuning approach on an extensive dataset of radiology domain knowledge, Radiology-GPT demonstrates superior performance compared to general language models such as StableLM, Dolly and LLaMA. It exhibits significant versatility in radiological diagnosis, research, and communication. This work serves as a catalyst for future developments in clinical NLP. The successful implementation of Radiology-GPT is indicative of the potential of localizing generative large language models, specifically tailored for distinctive medical specialties, while ensuring adherence to privacy standards such as HIPAA. The prospect of developing individualized, large-scale language models that cater to specific needs of various hospitals presents a promising direction. The fusion of conversational competence and domain-specific knowledge in these models is set to foster future development in healthcare AI. A demo of Radiology-GPT is available at https://huggingface.co/spaces/allen-eric/radiology-gpt.