*First Call for Participation*

The fourth edition of the MEDIQA shared tasks
<https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa-shared-tasks> include three
tasks on Multimodal
Medical Answer Generation & Medical Error Correction, organized at CLEF
<https://clef2024.imag.fr/> & NAACL-ClinicalNLP 2024
<https://clinical-nlp.github.io/2024/>.

   - *Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024
   <https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024>*


*1)  Multimodal & Multilingual Medical Answer Generation *

The rapid development of telecommunication technologies, the increased
demands for healthcare services, and recent pandemic needs, have
accelerated the adoption of remote clinical diagnosis and treatment. In
addition to live meetings with doctors which may be conducted through
telephone or video, asynchronous options such as e-visits, emails, and
messaging chats have also been proven to be cost-effective and convenient. We
focus on the problem of clinical dermatology multimodal query response
generation. Consumer health question answering has been the subject of past
challenges and research; however, these prior works only focus on
text. Previous
work on visual question answering have focused mainly on radiology images
and did not include additional clinical text input. Also, while there is
much work on dermatology image classification, much prior work is related
to lesion malignancy classification for dermatoscope images. To the best of
our knowledge, this is the first challenge and study of a problem that
seeks to automatically generate clinical responses, given textual clinical
history, as well as user generated images and queries.


MEDIQA-MAGIC <https://www.imageclef.org/2024/medical/mediqa>: Multimodal &
Generative Telemedicine in Dermatology *@ CLEF 2024, September 2024,
Grenoble, France*


   - Participants will be given textual inputs which may include clinical
      history and a query, along with one or more associated images. The
      task will consist in generating a relevant textual response.


*MEDIQA-M3G <https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024/mediqa-m3g>:
*Multilingual
& Multimodal Medical Answer Generation @ *NAACL-ClinicalNLP, June 2024,
Mexico City, Mexico *


   - Inputs will include text which give clinical context and queries, as
      well as one or more images. The challenge will tackle the generation a
      relevant textual response to the query. Participants can opt to work
      on one or multiple languages: *Chinese* (Simplified), *English*, and
      *Spanish*.


*2) Medical Error Detection & Correction *

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in being applied on unseen tasks
with competitive ability. However, by construction, such models have a key
vulnerability; their ability is only as good as its underlying training data.
Since LLMs rely on large corpora of textual data (often from the world wide
web) for training, their data is almost impossible to manually curate at
scale. If the data contains false information or only one perspective or
type of information, the ability of LLMs to discern factual information may
be hindered. Also, as a consequence to their own success, some online content
may be entirely generated by LLMs that are prone to hallucinated
information. In addition, in specialized domains, online information can be
unreliable, harmful, and contain logical inconsistencies that may hinder
the models' reasoning ability. However, most previous works on common sense
detection have focused on the general domain. In this task, we seek to
address the problem of identifying and correcting (common sense) medical
errors in clinical notes. From a human perspective, these errors require
medical expertise and knowledge to be both identified and corrected.

MEDIQA-CORR
<https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024/mediqa-corr?authuser=0>: Medical E
rror Detection & Correction @ *NAACL-ClinicalNLP, June 2024, Mexico City,
Mexico *


   - Participants will be given a snippet of clinical text and asked
to (i) detect
      whether the text includes a medical error, (ii) identify the text
      span associated with the error, if a medical error exists, and
(iii) provide
      a free text correction.

Contact

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Organizers

   - Asma Ben Abacha
   <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/abenabacha/>,
   Microsoft, USA
   - Wen-wai Yim <https://www.linkedin.com/in/wen-wai-yim-b20b2420>,
   Microsoft, USA
   - Meliha Yetisgen <https://faculty.washington.edu/melihay/>, University
   of Washington, USA
   - Fei Xia <https://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/>, University of
   Washington, USA
   - Martin Krallinger <https://www.bsc.es/krallinger-martin>, Barcelona
   Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
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