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Vision-language pretraining has advanced image-text alignment, yet progress in radiology remains constrained by the heterogeneity of clinical reports, including abbreviations, impression-only notes, and stylistic variability. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hanbin Ko , Gihun Cho , Inhyeok Baek , Donguk Kim , Joonbeom Koo , Changi Kim , Dongheon Lee , Chang Min Park

Chest radiograph interpretation requires temporal reasoning over prior and current studies, yet most vision-language models are trained on static image-report pairs and lack explicit supervision for modeling longitudinal change. We…

Vision-language models have proven to be of great benefit for medical image analysis since they learn rich semantics from both images and reports. Prior efforts have focused on better alignment of image and text representations to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yixiong Chen , Shawn Xu , Andrew Sellergren , Yossi Matias , Avinatan Hassidim , Shravya Shetty , Daniel Golden , Alan Yuille , Lin Yang

Medical report generation automates radiology descriptions from images, easing the burden on physicians and minimizing errors. However, current methods lack structured outputs and physician interactivity for clear, clinically relevant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Hongzhao Li , Hongyu Wang , Xia Sun , Hua He , Jun Feng

Chest X-Ray imaging is one of the most common radiological tools for detection of various pathologies related to the chest area and lung function. In a clinical setting, automated assessment of chest radiographs has the potential of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 David Biesner , Helen Schneider , Benjamin Wulff , Ulrike Attenberger , Rafet Sifa

This paper proposes a novel framework for lung segmentation in chest X-rays. It consists of two key contributions, a criss-cross attention based segmentation network and radiorealistic chest X-ray image synthesis (i.e. a synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Youbao Tang , Yuxing Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

Generating medical reports from chest X-ray images is a critical and time-consuming task for radiologists, especially in emergencies. To alleviate the stress on radiologists and reduce the risk of misdiagnosis, numerous research efforts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Qiang Sun , Zongcheng Ji , Yinlong Xiao , Peng Chang , Jun Yu

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using generative models, specifically Progressive Growing GANs (PG-GANs) and Stable Diffusion fine-tuning, to generate synthetic chest X-ray images for medical diagnosis purposes. Due to ethical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Muhammad Danyal Malik , Danish Humair

Radiographs are a versatile diagnostic tool for the detection and assessment of pathologies, for treatment planning or for navigation and localization purposes in clinical interventions. However, their interpretation and assessment by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

X-ray image-based medical report generation (MRG) is a pivotal area in artificial intelligence which can significantly reduce diagnostic burdens and patient wait times. Despite significant progress, we believe that the task has reached a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Xiao Wang , Fuling Wang , Yuehang Li , Qingchuan Ma , Shiao Wang , Bo Jiang , Chuanfu Li , Jin Tang

Radiology report generation (RRG) for diagnostic images, such as chest X-rays, plays a pivotal role in both clinical practice and AI. Traditional free-text reports suffer from redundancy and inconsistent language, complicating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yingshu Li , Yunyi Liu , Zhanyu Wang , Xinyu Liang , Lingqiao Liu , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou

A global shortage of radiologists has been exacerbated by the significant volume of chest X-ray workloads, particularly in primary care. Although multimodal large language models show promise, existing evaluations predominantly rely on…

Objective Renal cancer is a common malignancy and a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Computed tomography (CT) is central to early detection, staging, and treatment planning. However, the growing CT workload increases radiologists'…

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Screening mammography is the most widely used method for early breast cancer detection, significantly reducing mortality rates. The integration of information from multi-view mammograms enhances radiologists' confidence and diminishes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Hoang C. Nguyen , Chi Phan , Hieu H. Pham

Counterfactual generation for chest X-rays (CXR) aims to simulate plausible pathological changes while preserving patient-specific anatomy. However, diffusion-based editing methods often suffer from structural drift, where stable anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zichun Zhang , Weizhi Nie , Honglin Guo , Yuting Su

Advancing representation learning in specialized fields like medicine remains challenging due to the scarcity of expert annotations for text and images. To tackle this issue, we present a novel two-stage framework designed to extract…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Pablo Messina , René Vidal , Denis Parra , Álvaro Soto , Vladimir Araujo

The interpretation of Chest X-ray is an important diagnostic issue in clinical practice and especially in the resource-limited setting where the shortage of radiologists plays a role in delayed diagnosis and poor patient outcomes. Although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Ali M. Bahram , Saman Muhammad Omer , Hardi M. Mohammed , Sirwan Abdolwahed Aula

Large language models, notably utilizing Transformer architectures, have emerged as powerful tools due to their scalability and ability to process large amounts of data. Dosovitskiy et al. expanded this architecture to introduce Vision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Ananya Jain , Aviral Bhardwaj , Kaushik Murali , Isha Surani

Fast screening and diagnosis are critical in COVID-19 patient treatment. In addition to the gold standard RT-PCR, radiological imaging like X-ray and CT also works as an important means in patient screening and follow-up. However, due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Xian Wu , Shuxin Yang , Zhaopeng Qiu , Shen Ge , Yangtian Yan , Xingwang Wu , Yefeng Zheng , S. Kevin Zhou , Li Xiao

Chest radiography is the most common medical image examination for screening and diagnosis in hospitals. Automatic interpretation of chest X-rays at the level of an entry-level radiologist can greatly benefit work prioritization and assist…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Sandesh Ghimire , Satyananda Kashyap , Joy T. Wu , Alexandros Karargyris , Mehdi Moradi