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The image captioning task is increasingly prevalent in artificial intelligence applications for medicine. One important application is clinical report generation from chest radiographs. The clinical writing of unstructured reports is time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Edward Vendrow , Ethan Schonfeld

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

Over 1.4 billion chest X-rays (CXRs) are performed annually due to their cost-effectiveness as an initial diagnostic test. This scale of radiological studies provides a significant opportunity to streamline CXR interpretation and…

Radiology is essential to modern healthcare, yet rising demand and staffing shortages continue to pose major challenges. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have the potential to support radiologists and help address these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Phillip Sloan , Edwin Simpson , Majid Mirmehdi

We developed a rich dataset of Chest X-Ray (CXR) images to assist investigators in artificial intelligence. The data were collected using an eye tracking system while a radiologist reviewed and reported on 1,083 CXR images. The dataset…

The chest X-ray (CXR) is commonly employed to diagnose thoracic illnesses, but the challenge of achieving accurate automatic diagnosis through this method persists due to the complex relationship between pathology. In recent years, various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Weizhi Nie , Chen Zhang , Dan song , Yunpeng Bai , Keliang Xie , Anan Liu

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most frequently ordered imaging test, supporting diverse clinical tasks from thoracic disease detection to postoperative monitoring. However, task-specific classification models are limited in scope, require costly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zefan Yang , Xuanang Xu , Jiajin Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Generating accurate and clinically meaningful radiology reports from chest X-ray images remains a significant challenge in medical AI. While recent vision-language models achieve strong results in general radiology report generation, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Nikolay Nechaev , Evgeniia Przhezdzetskaia , Dmitry Umerenkov , Dmitry V. Dylov

Chest X-ray interpretation is one of the most frequently performed diagnostic tasks in medicine and a primary target for AI development, yet current vision-language models are primarily trained on datasets of paired images and reports, not…

Chest Xray imaging is a widely used diagnostic tool in modern medicine, and its high utilization creates substantial workloads for radiologists. To alleviate this burden, vision language models are increasingly applied to automate Chest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Shaoyang Zhou , Yingshu Li , Yunyi Liu , Lingqiao Liu , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou

The latest breakthroughs in large vision-language models, such as Bard and GPT-4, have showcased extraordinary abilities in performing a wide range of tasks. Such models are trained on massive datasets comprising billions of public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Omkar Thawakar , Abdelrahman Shaker , Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Jorma Laaksonen , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are among the most frequently performed imaging examinations worldwide, yet rising imaging volumes increase radiologist workload and the risk of diagnostic errors. Although artificial intelligence (AI) systems have shown…

Automated interpretation of chest X-rays (CXR) is a critical task with the potential to significantly improve clinical workflow and patient care. While recent advances in multimodal foundation models have shown promise, effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Alexander Davis , Rafael Souza , Jia-Hao Lim

We present a novel approach to Chest X-ray (CXR) Visual Question Answering (VQA), addressing both single-image image-difference questions. Single-image questions focus on abnormalities within a specific CXR ("What abnormalities are seen in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Francesco Dalla Serra , Patrick Schrempf , Chaoyang Wang , Zaiqiao Meng , Fani Deligianni , Alison Q. O'Neil

Chest X-ray is one of the most popular medical imaging modalities due to its accessibility and effectiveness. However, there is a chronic shortage of well-trained radiologists who can interpret these images and diagnose the patient's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Otabek Nazarov , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Deep learning models have revolutionized medical imaging and diagnostics, yet their opaque nature poses challenges for clinical adoption and trust. Amongst approaches to improve model interpretability, concept-based explanations aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Vijay Sadashivaiah , Pingkun Yan , James A. Hendler

In order to bridge the gap between Deep Learning researchers and medical professionals we develop a very accessible free prototype system which can be used by medical professionals to understand the reality of Deep Learning tools for chest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Joseph Paul Cohen , Paul Bertin , Vincent Frappier

Multimodal models trained on large natural image-text pair datasets have exhibited astounding abilities in generating high-quality images. Medical imaging data is fundamentally different to natural images, and the language used to…

Generative adversarial networks have been successfully applied to inpainting in natural images. However, the current state-of-the-art models have not yet been widely adopted in the medical imaging domain. In this paper, we investigate the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ecem Sogancioglu , Shi Hu , Davide Belli , Bram van Ginneken

Chest X-ray plays a central role in thoracic diagnosis, and its interpretation inherently requires multi-step, evidence-grounded reasoning. However, large vision-language models (LVLMs) often generate plausible responses that are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hyungyung Lee , Hangyul Yoon , Edward Choi