SIR 2024
Practice Development
Aly Fawzy, BSc
Medical Student
University of Toronto, Canada
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Blair Warren, MD
Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellow
University Health Network, Canada
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Sebastian Mafeld, MBBS FRCR (he/him/his)
Interventional Radiologist
University Health Network, CAN
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After a thorough exploration of the AI landscape, three milestones were defined for a pipeline: 1) A way to compile the latest published IR research efficiently from major journals; 2) A LLM to summarize those abstracts in a concise, engaging, and scientifically accurate fashion; 3) A way to disseminate those summaries aligning with modern information consumption.
An RSS feed link was created using PubMed which incorporated five major IR journals: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology, Seminars in Interventional Radiology, Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology, and the Journal of Endovascular Therapy. The RSS feed was limited to English articles and articles with an abstract. An AI RSS feed reader, which updates daily, was used to extract the latest published abstracts from the journals.
The LLM GPT-4.0 from OpenAI was then fed those abstracts {1}. Iterative LLM prompt development was performed to establish a robust prompt that consistently produces a concise, engaging, and scientifically accurate summary. Twitter (now “X”) was selected to disseminate the summaries due to its popular use amongst physicians. The LLM-generated summaries were then fed to an AI tool that is trained on refining the summary and tracking analytics.
From its inception on July 18, 2023, @iRadPulse has seen consistent growth within the IR community with >50,000 impressions within 2 months of launching.
Conclusion and/or Teaching Points: @iRadPulse is an AI powered tool that can help clinicians stay up to date on the current literature and is an example of leveraging AI to augment a professional practice. Providing concise literature summaries in an easily digestible Twitter/X format ensures that IR clinicians remain up to date. Further work is needed to fully automate the pipeline and wider dissemination.