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Multi-label classification of chest X-ray images is frequently performed using discriminative approaches, i.e. learning to map an image directly to its binary labels. Such approaches make it challenging to incorporate auxiliary information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Anjany Sekuboyina , Daniel Oñoro-Rubio , Jens Kleesiek , Brandon Malone

In this era of pandemic, the future of healthcare industry has never been more exciting. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI & ML) present opportunities to develop solutions that cater for very specific needs within the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Aravind Sasidharan Pillai

IMACT-CXR is an interactive multi-agent conversational tutor that helps trainees interpret chest X-rays by unifying spatial annotation, gaze analysis, knowledge retrieval, and image-grounded reasoning in a single AutoGen-based workflow. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tuan-Anh Le , Anh Mai Vu , David Yang , Akash Awasthi , Hien Van Nguyen

Chest X-rays is one of the most commonly available and affordable radiological examinations in clinical practice. While detecting thoracic diseases on chest X-rays is still a challenging task for machine intelligence, due to 1) the highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Chaochao Yan , Jiawen Yao , Ruoyu Li , Zheng Xu , Junzhou Huang

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, especially in large language models (LLMs), has significantly impacted various domains, including healthcare. In chest X-ray (CXR) analysis, previous studies have employed LLMs, but with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jonggwon Park , Soobum Kim , Byungmu Yoon , Jihun Hyun , Kyoyun Choi

Traditional instrumental variable (IV) estimators face a fundamental constraint: they can only accommodate as many endogenous treatment variables as available instruments. This limitation becomes particularly challenging in settings where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shiangyi Lin , Hui Lan , Vasilis Syrgkanis

The diagnosis and treatment of chest diseases play a crucial role in maintaining human health. X-ray examination has become the most common clinical examination means due to its efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Yuehao Song , Huangxuan Zhao , Jun Ma , Yajie Chen , Wenyu Liu , Bo Wang

Patients undergoing chest X-rays (CXR) often endure multiple lung diseases. When evaluating a patient's condition, due to the complex pathologies, subtle texture changes of different lung lesions in images, and patient condition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Mengliang Zhang , Xinyue Hu , Lin Gu , Liangchen Liu , Kazuma Kobayashi , Tatsuya Harada , Ronald M. Summers , Yingying Zhu

This study investigates the integration of diverse patient data sources into multimodal language models for automated chest X-ray (CXR) report generation. Traditionally, CXR report generation relies solely on CXR images and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Aaron Nicolson , Shengyao Zhuang , Jason Dowling , Bevan Koopman

Report generation models offer fine-grained textual interpretations of medical images like chest X-rays, yet they often lack interactivity (i.e. the ability to steer the generation process through user queries) and localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Philip Müller , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the interpretation of chest X-ray (CXR) images by providing robust tools for disease diagnosis. However, the effectiveness of these AI models is often limited by their reliance on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Lijian Xu , Ziyu Ni , Hao Sun , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are among the most commonly used medical image modalities. They are mostly used for screening, and an indication of disease typically results in subsequent tests. As this is mostly a screening test used to rule out chest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Ken C. L. Wong , Mehdi Moradi , Joy Wu , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

The instrumental-variables (IV) setting is standard for partial identification of causal effects when unobserved confounding makes point identification impossible. Existing approaches face methodological bottlenecks: closed-form bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Vahid Balazadeh , Hamidreza Kamkari , Medha Barath , Ricardo Silva , Rahul G. Krishnan

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have consistently proven to achieve state-of-the-art results on a lot of imaging tasks over the past years' majority of which comprise of high-quality data. However, it is important to work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Snigdha Agarwal , Neelam Sinha

This paper studies the challenging problem of estimating causal effects from observational data, in the presence of unobserved confounders. The two-stage least square (TSLS) method and its variants with a standard instrumental variable (IV)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Debo Cheng , Ziqi Xu , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Jixue Liu , Thuc Duy Le

Chest X-ray (CXR) is frequently employed in emergency departments and intensive care units to verify the proper placement of central lines and tubes and to rule out related complications. The automation of the X-ray reading process can be a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Francesca Boccardi , Axel Saalbach , Heinrich Schulz , Samuele Salti , Ilyas Sirazitdinov

Instrumental variables (IVs) are often continuous, arising in diverse fields such as economics, epidemiology, and the social sciences. Existing approaches for continuous IVs typically impose strong parametric models or assume homogeneous…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-17 Mei Dong , Lin Liu , Dingke Tang , Geoffrey Liu , Wei Xu , Linbo Wang

Chest radiographs are the most common diagnostic exam in emergency rooms and intensive care units today. Recently, a number of researchers have begun working on large chest X-ray datasets to develop deep learning models for recognition of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood , Ph. D , K. C. L Wong , Ph. D , Joy T. Wu , M. D. , M. P. H , Ashutosh Jadhav , Ph. D , Orest Boyko , M. D. Ph. D

Recent advances in vision--language pretraining have enabled strong medical foundation models, yet most analyze radiographs in isolation, overlooking the key clinical task of comparing prior and current images to assess interval change. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Hanbin Ko , Kyungmin Jeon , Doowoong Choi , Chang Min Park

The novel 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic is a defining health crisis. Recent efforts have been increasingly directed towards achieving quick and accurate detection of COVID-19 across symptomatic patients to mitigate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Karina Yang , Alexis Bennett , Dominique Duncan