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Contextualized Keyword Representations for Multi-modal Retinal Image Captioning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-04-27 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Information Retrieval Multimedia

Abstract

Medical image captioning automatically generates a medical description to describe the content of a given medical image. A traditional medical image captioning model creates a medical description only based on a single medical image input. Hence, an abstract medical description or concept is hard to be generated based on the traditional approach. Such a method limits the effectiveness of medical image captioning. Multi-modal medical image captioning is one of the approaches utilized to address this problem. In multi-modal medical image captioning, textual input, e.g., expert-defined keywords, is considered as one of the main drivers of medical description generation. Thus, encoding the textual input and the medical image effectively are both important for the task of multi-modal medical image captioning. In this work, a new end-to-end deep multi-modal medical image captioning model is proposed. Contextualized keyword representations, textual feature reinforcement, and masked self-attention are used to develop the proposed approach. Based on the evaluation of the existing multi-modal medical image captioning dataset, experimental results show that the proposed model is effective with the increase of +53.2% in BLEU-avg and +18.6% in CIDEr, compared with the state-of-the-art method.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.12471,
  title  = {Contextualized Keyword Representations for Multi-modal Retinal Image Captioning},
  author = {Jia-Hong Huang and Ting-Wei Wu and Marcel Worring},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12471},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

This paper is accepted by ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2021

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