Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Question Answering on a Heart Failure Dataset: Performance Analysis

Shiran Zhang   ^{1 *} ;   Evelyn Phan   ^{2 *} ;   Pedro Velmovitsky   ^{3, 4} , MSc, PhD ;   Quynh Pham   ^{3, 4, 5, 6} , MSc, PhD ;   Scott Sanner   ⁷ , BS, MS, PhD

¹ Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Centre for Digital Therapeutics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁶ School of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁷ Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally