online-doctor-model

library_name: transformers
tags: [biomedical, question-answering, healthcare]

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Model Card for Online Doctor Model

This model is a fine-tuned version of the dmis-lab/biobert-large-cased-v1.1-squad model. It is designed to answer questions related to diseases based on symptom descriptions, providing a question-answering pipeline to help healthcare professionals and users. This model has been trained on a custom dataset of diseases and their symptoms for predictive question answering.

Model Details

Model Description

This is a question-answering model fine-tuned using the BioBERT architecture, specifically adapted for healthcare-related questions. The model is designed to extract answers from a disease-symptom dataset based on user-inputted symptoms or queries.

• Developed by: Ayamba Victor Ndoma
• Model type: Question Answering
• Language(s) (NLP): English
• License: Apache 2.0
• Finetuned from model: dmis-lab/biobert-large-cased-v1.1-squad

Model Sources

• Repository: Hugging Face Repository
• Demo: [Link to Demo (optional)]

Uses

This model can be used in the following cases:

Direct Use

• Answering healthcare-related questions based on symptom input from users.
• Assisting medical professionals in preliminary diagnosis based on reported symptoms.

Downstream Use

• Can be further fine-tuned or extended for more specific disease or symptom-related tasks.
• Integrated into chatbot systems for medical consultation services.

Out-of-Scope Use

• The model is not intended for use in making definitive medical diagnoses without human supervision.
• It is not suitable for predicting non-health-related issues.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

• Bias: The model is trained on a custom dataset with potentially limited diversity in disease-symptom pairs.
• Risks: Incorrect predictions might occur when symptoms overlap across multiple diseases.
• Limitations: The model is constrained to the diseases and symptoms available in the training dataset and may not generalize to all medical conditions.

Recommendations

This model should be used with caution, and its answers should be reviewed by qualified healthcare professionals.

How to Get Started with the Model

Use the following code to get started with the model:

from transformers import pipeline
qa_pipeline = pipeline("question-answering", model="your-username/online-doctor-model")

# Example question and context
question = "What are the symptoms of diabetes?"
context = "Diabetes: increased thirst, frequent urination, hunger, fatigue, blurred vision."

result = qa_pipeline(question=question, context=context)
print(result['answer'])

Training Details

Training Data

The model is fine-tuned on a custom dataset containing diseases and their respective symptoms.

Training Procedure

• Preprocessing: Text cleaning and tokenization were applied to ensure proper context and symptom pairing.
• Training regime: The model was trained using mixed-precision FP16 on a single GPU.

Training Hyperparameters

• Epochs: 3
• Batch size: 16
• Learning rate: 3e-5

Evaluation

Testing Data, Factors & Metrics

Testing Data

The model was evaluated on a held-out portion of the custom disease-symptom dataset.

Factors

• Subpopulation: Various diseases ranging from common illnesses to rare conditions.
• Domains: Medical text and descriptions of symptoms.

Metrics

The model was evaluated using the SQuAD metrics, including F1 score and Exact Match (EM).

Results

• F1 score: 0.82
• Exact Match (EM): 0.78

Summary

The model performs well on the task of extracting relevant symptoms and disease-related answers based on the question provided. However, its performance is limited to the diseases and symptoms present in the training data.

Environmental Impact

• Hardware Type: Single GPU (NVIDIA Tesla T4)
• Hours used: 3
• Cloud Provider: Google Cloud
• Compute Region: US
• Carbon Emitted: Approximately 0.36 kg CO2eq

Technical Specifications

Model Architecture and Objective

The model is based on the BioBERT architecture fine-tuned for the SQuAD task, with a focus on healthcare question-answering.

Compute Infrastructure

• Hardware: NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU
• Software: PyTorch, Transformers Library

Citation

If you use this model, please cite it as:

@misc{Ndoma2024onlinedoctor,
  author = {Ayamba Victor Ndoma},
  title = {Online Doctor Model for Disease Prediction},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/your-username/online-doctor-model}},
}

Model Card Authors

• Ayamba Victor Ndoma

Model Card Contact

For questions or feedback, please contact [email protected].

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