VERGE: איתור סימנים מוקדמים של סרטן המעי הגס

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2609.04366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early-onset colorectal cancer is increasing among younger adults, yet red-flag symptoms in this age group have no evidence-based guidelines for follow-up testing, and structured encounter data do not capture the detail needed to support early detection and inform follow-up, including symptom duration, context, and fam- ily history, an established colorectal-cancer risk factor. This study aimed to develop and evaluate an automated method for extracting six red-flag symptoms and family-history risk status from free-text clinical notes. We developed VERGE, an agentic workflow in which an initial label and evidence are proposed using retrieval-augmented generation, then passed through a bounded verification- refinement cycle that checks textual g