Path-BigBird: An AI-Driven Transformer Approach to Classification of Cancer Pathology Reports

Article by Mayanka Chandrashekar, PhD · Isaac Lyngaas, PhD · Heidi A. Hanson, PhD · Shang Gao, PhD · Xiao-Cheng Wu, MD, MPH · John Gounley, PhD

Abstract

Surgical pathology reports are critical for cancer diagnosis and management. To accurately extract information about tumor characteristics from pathology reports in near real time, we explore the impact of using domain-specific transformer models that understand cancer pathology reports.