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Brayden Mau may be an intern, but he feels like part of the team at Mayo Clinic Health System. The fourth-year computer science major at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has spent the last two years expanding and applying his knowledge of artificial intelligence to improve patient care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first projects he was assigned to recently celebrated a major milestone, as a peer-reviewed manuscript on Colon-Pilot, an artificial intelligence tool for automated colonoscopy surveillance, was accepted for publication in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Mau\u2019s name appears second on the author list alongside several respected physicians at Mayo Clinic, including Dr. Sushil Garg, chair of gastroenterology at Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire and physician-innovator focused on improving colonoscopy quality and colon cancer risk management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was cool to see all the work we\u2019ve put in be published and out there for people to see, Mau says. \u201cIt meant a lot to be able to come into this internship and earn the trust of a lot of these very well-known names.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article describes how the team developed and validated Colon-Pilot, a large language model-powered clinical decision support system. The system utilizes OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o to offer a scalable solution for improving both efficiency and quality in colorectal cancer prevention. Mau says the tool has completed clinical validation and while it has not yet been deployed to help patients, it is \u201cheading in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journal is published on behalf of the American College of Gastroenterology, which provides practical and professional support for clinicians dealing with the gastroenterological disorders seen most often in patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mau had no knowledge of medical terminology prior to his internship but became more familiar within the first six months. This was the first time the Kimberly native had written code in the healthcare industry, but he impressed his colleagues and mentors with his engineering skills and ability to be proactive and innovative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis contributions were on par with a senior level AI engineer at our organization at the time,\u201d says Sarah Harper, another co-author who served as Mau\u2019s direct supervisor as manager of AI and Automation at Mayo Clinic Health System. \u201cThere’s not many engineers I’ve met that have that translational skill set where they can speak coder language and then also understand the clinical setting and translate into plain language what they’re doing and how it’s helping to solve the problem that’s been identified.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Harper, article co-author and Mau’s direct supervisor as manager of AI and Automation at Mayo Clinic Health System<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr. Garg works really quickly, he\u2019s very effective with results and Brayden has been able to keep up with that, which is pretty awesome,\u201d says Dr. Rahul Gomes, associate professor and interim chair of the computer science department at UW-Eau Claire, who served as Mau\u2019s faculty advisor and a co-author of the article. \u201cThat\u2019s why we were able to have this paper out in such short time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Rahul Gomes, article co-author and associate professor and interim chair of the UW-Eau Claire computer science department<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other projects Mau is involved in are progressing toward publication. His paper on the approach used in the first phase of the Colon-Pilot project, known as knowledge distillation, is being submitted to Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a peer-reviewed medical journal sponsored by Mayo Clinic and authored by physicians worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brayden Mau has made a number of poster presentations during his time with Mayo Clinic Health System<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mau worked with Dr. David Blair, Mayo Clinic\u2019s regional division chair for family medicine in northwest Wisconsin, to develop a large language model that reformats patient education information into a version that is personalized to individual patient needs. The paper they collaborated on is being reviewed by Applied Clinical Informatics, a journal serving health informatics and health information technology practitioners and executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also worked with Dr. Indrani Sen, a vascular and endovascular surgeon at Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire and La Crosse, to use natural language processing and machine learning to improve detection of abdominal aortic aneurisms in a clinical setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think (Brayden) is your ideal job candidate,\u201d Harper says. \u201cHe understands in the context of the problem the team is trying to solve, and he understands where his gifts can be most helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to juggling projects, Mau has been training the next interns who will continue the work once his internship ends in early May. Mau, having found a passion for healthcare, hopes his work leads to a permanent role on the team at Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really love the fact you can see what you\u2019re doing every day, helping patients and clinicians,\u201d Mau says. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot more fulfilling when you can see the benefits more clearly because you\u2019re helping people every single day with what you do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Written by UW-Eau Claire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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