An LLM Pipeline for Automatic Extraction and Evaluation of Care Pathways from Clinical Guidelines
摘要
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are continually updated, yet translating such narrative recommendations into formal Care Pathway (CPW) processes remains labor-intensive and prone to inconsistency. We introduce a modular, end-to-end extraction pipeline that leverages Large Language Model (LLM) frameworks to automatically generate and evaluate BPMN models of CPWs from CPG text. Our system standardizes different output formats, applies LLM-based label alignment to harmonize terminology, and evaluates models against reference models using node- and structural-similarity metrics. Experiments on four stroke-related CPGs, using two state-of-the-art LLM frameworks—ProMoAI and a multi-agent orchestration approach (MAO)—shows the feasibility of automated CPW process extraction. We further observe that the multi-agent framework (MAO) demonstrates markedly higher fidelity. A web-based UI supports experiment configuration and result inspection. We released all code, prompts, and datasets as open-source to promote reproducibility and future enhancements.