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“From text to therapy: large language models in clinical medicine”
Rose Bruffaerts, University of Antwerp
Thursday, 27 November 2025 | 12:00 – 13:00 | Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre
Abstract: Over the past several years, large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have emerged as influential tools in various aspects of daily life. Analogous to advances in computer vision models, LLMs hold the potential to fundamentally transform clinical practice. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the underlying principles of LLMs, highlighting their capabilities and inherent limitations. I will then examine the current applications of LLMs in clinical settings, with a particular focus on examples from neurology, and discuss the parallels between integration of LLMs and the challenges previously encountered with the adoption of computer vision–based AI systems in healthcare.
Bio: Rose Bruffaerts is an assistant professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and a neurology consultant at the Antwerp University Hospital Memory Clinic. She specialized in neurology at University of Leuven, Belgium and combined this with a PhD on advanced analysis of brain imaging of cognitive processes. She then worked as an postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain at the University of Cambridge (UK) and also at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Since 2021, she leads the “Computational Neurology” research group where new diagnostic tools for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Frontotemporal Degeneration are being developed. One of her main research lines focuses on the clinical implementation of AI tools in neurology.
