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Systematic Evaluation of Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Gastrointestinal Tumor Board Decision Support

Stifini D, Penna AD, Mihaljevic AL, Missios P, Bitzer M, Eickhoff C, Capobianco I

Research Square, 2026

Abstract

Abstract Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as decision support tools for multidisciplinary tumor boards, yet systematic preclinical validation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines remains lacking. In this retrospective framework validation study using real-world clinical data, we applied a modular evaluation framework to 100 gastrointestinal tumor board cases spanning five cancer types, systematically testing 16 configurations varying model variant, multilingual retrieval strategy, query formulation, and corpus scope. Baseline concordance with multidisciplinary team recommendations ranged from 79–85%. Combining query rewriting with curated guideline retrieval improved concordance to 93–95% (p

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