Published on in Vol 27 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/69752, first published .
Comparative Evaluation of a Medical Large Language Model in Answering Real-World Radiation Oncology Questions: Multicenter Observational Study

Comparative Evaluation of a Medical Large Language Model in Answering Real-World Radiation Oncology Questions: Multicenter Observational Study

Comparative Evaluation of a Medical Large Language Model in Answering Real-World Radiation Oncology Questions: Multicenter Observational Study

Fabio Dennstädt   1 , MD ;   Max Schmerder   1 ;   Elena Riggenbach   1 , MD ;   Lucas Mose   1, 2 , MD ;   Katarina Bryjova   1 , MD ;   Nicolas Bachmann   1 , MD ;   Paul-Henry Mackeprang   1 , MD, PhD ;   Maiwand Ahmadsei   1 , MD ;   Dubravko Sinovcic   3 , MD ;   Paul Windisch   3 , MD, PD ;   Daniel Zwahlen   3 , Prof Dr ;   Susanne Rogers   4 , MD, PhD ;   Oliver Riesterer   4 , Prof Dr ;   Martin Maffei   5 , MD ;   Eleni Gkika   6 , Prof Dr ;   Hathal Haddad   7 , MBBS, MD ;   Jan Peeken   8, 9, 10 , PD, MD ;   Paul Martin Putora   1, 11 , Prof Dr, PhD ;   Markus Glatzer   11 , MD ;   Florian Putz   12 , PD, MD ;   Daniel Hoefler   12 , MD ;   Sebastian M Christ   13, 14 , MD, PhD ;   Irina Filchenko   15 , MD, PhD ;   Janna Hastings   16, 17, 18 , Prof Dr ;   Roberto Gaio   1 ;   Lawrence Chiang   1 ;   Daniel M Aebersold   1 , Prof Dr ;   Nikola Cihoric   1 , MD

1 Inselspital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2 Department of Radiooncology and Radiotherapy, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

3 Department of Radiation Oncology, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

4 Radiation Oncology Center Mittelland, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

5 Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of Bolzano, Teaching Hospital of Paracelsus Medical University, Bolzano, Italy

6 Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

7 Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

8 Department of Radiation Oncology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

9 Institute of Radiation Medicine, Department of Radiation Sciences, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany

10 German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany

11 Department of Radiation Oncology, Health Ostschweiz (HOCH), Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

12 Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

13 Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital of Zurich, Lausanne, Switzerland

14 Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

15 Inselspital, Department of Neurology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

16 School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

17 Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

18 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Corresponding Author:

  • Nikola Cihoric, MD
  • Inselspital, Department of Radiation Oncology
  • Bern University Hospital
  • University of Bern
  • Freiburgstrasse 18
  • Bern 3010
  • Switzerland
  • Phone: 41 764228338
  • Email: nikola.cihoric@gmail.com