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We propose a two-stage multimodal framework that enhances disease classification and region-aware radiology report generation from chest X-rays, leveraging the MIMIC-Eye dataset. In the first stage, we introduce a gaze-guided contrastive…

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We introduce a radiology-focused visual language model designed to generate radiology reports from chest X-rays. Building on previous findings that large language models (LLMs) can acquire multimodal capabilities when aligned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xi Zhang , Zaiqiao Meng , Jake Lever , Edmond S. L. Ho

When reading images, radiologists generate text reports describing the findings therein. Current state-of-the-art computer-aided diagnosis tools utilize a fixed set of predefined categories automatically extracted from these medical reports…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Constantin Seibold , Simon Reiß , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Jens Kleesiek

Automated analysis of chest radiography using deep learning has tremendous potential to enhance the clinical diagnosis of diseases in patients. However, deep learning models typically require large amounts of annotated data to achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Keegan Quigley , Miriam Cha , Ruizhi Liao , Geeticka Chauhan , Steven Horng , Seth Berkowitz , Polina Golland

Medical report generation from imaging data remains a challenging task in clinical practice. While large language models (LLMs) show great promise in addressing this challenge, their effective integration with medical imaging data still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Chunlei Li , Jingyang Hou , Yilei Shi , Jingliang Hu , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Among all the sub-sections in a typical radiology report, the Clinical Indications, Findings, and Impression often reflect important details about the health status of a patient. The information included in Impression is also often covered…

Automated radiology report generation from chest X-ray (CXR) images has the potential to improve clinical efficiency and reduce radiologists' workload. However, most datasets, including the publicly available MIMIC-CXR and CheXpert Plus,…

Medical images are widely used in clinical practice for diagnosis. Automatically generating interpretable medical reports can reduce radiologists' burden and facilitate timely care. However, most existing approaches to automatic report…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Jinghan Sun , Dong Wei , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Topic models are Bayesian models that are frequently used to capture the latent structure of certain corpora of documents or images. Each data element in such a corpus (for instance each item in a collection of scientific articles) is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-05 Behrooz Ghorbani , Hamid Javadi , Andrea Montanari

Automating radiology report generation can ease the reporting workload for radiologists. However, existing works focus mainly on the chest area due to the limited availability of public datasets for other regions. Besides, they often rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Qi Chen , Yutong Xie , Biao Wu , Xiaomin Chen , James Ang , Minh-Son To , Xiaojun Chang , Qi Wu

Advancements in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) hold great promise for automating radiology workflows, yet challenges in interpretability and reliability hinder clinical adoption. This paper presents an automated radiology report…

New text as data techniques offer a great promise: the ability to inductively discover measures that are useful for testing social science theories of interest from large collections of text. We introduce a conceptual framework for making…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-08 Naoki Egami , Christian J. Fong , Justin Grimmer , Margaret E. Roberts , Brandon M. Stewart

The availability of large-scale chest X-ray datasets is a requirement for developing well-performing deep learning-based algorithms in thoracic abnormality detection and classification. However, biometric identifiers in chest radiographs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Kai Packhäuser , Lukas Folle , Florian Thamm , Andreas Maier

Variational autoencoders have been widely applied for natural language generation, however, there are two long-standing problems: information under-representation and posterior collapse. The former arises from the fact that only the last…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Xianghong Fang , Haoli Bai , Zenglin Xu , Michael Lyu , Irwin King

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) show promise in medical applications, but their inability to faithfully ground responses in visual evidence raises serious concerns about clinical trustworthiness. While visual attribution methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Guangzhi Xiong , Qiao Jin , Sanchit Sinha , Zhiyong Lu , Aidong Zhang

This paper introduces a novel approach for topic modeling utilizing latent codebooks from Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder~(VQ-VAE), discretely encapsulating the rich information of the pre-trained embeddings such as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 YoungJoon Yoo , Jongwon Choi

While large language models (LLMs) have advanced CT report generation, existing methods typically encode 3D volumes holistically, failing to distinguish informative cues from redundant anatomical background. Inspired by radiological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuhe Tian , Kun Zhang , Haoran Ma , Rui Yan , Yingtai Li , Rongsheng Wang , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

Image description task has been invariably examined in a static manner with qualitative presumptions held to be universally applicable, regardless of the scope or target of the description. In practice, however, different viewers may pay…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Ultrasound (US) report generation is a challenging task due to the variability of US images, operator dependence, and the need for standardized text. Unlike X-ray and CT, US imaging lacks consistent datasets, making automation difficult. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Peixuan Ge , Tongkun Su , Faqin Lv , Baoliang Zhao , Peng Zhang , Chi Hong Wong , Liang Yao , Yu Sun , Zenan Wang , Pak Kin Wong , Ying Hu

The rapid increase of computed tomography (CT) scans and their time-consuming manual analysis have created an urgent need for robust automated analysis techniques in clinical settings. These aim to assist radiologists and help them managing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Theo Di Piazza , Carole Lazarus , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel