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Beyond their primary diagnostic purpose, radiology reports have been an invaluable source of information in medical research. Given a corpus of radiology reports, researchers are often interested in identifying a subset of reports…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Tamara Katic , Martin Pavlovski , Danijela Sekulic , Slobodan Vucetic

Large scale vision language models have shown promise in automating chest Xray interpretation, yet their clinical utility remains limited by a gap between model outputs and radiologist reasoning. Most systems optimize for semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Kinhei Lee , Peiyuan Jing , Zhenxuan Zhang , Yue Yang , Tao Wang , Dominic C Marshall , Yingying Fang , Guang Yang

Radiology reports convey detailed clinical observations and capture diagnostic reasoning that evolves over time. However, existing evaluation methods are limited to single-report settings and rely on coarse metrics that fail to capture…

Radiology reports are invaluable for clinical decision-making and hold great potential for automated analysis when structured into machine-readable formats. These reports often contain uncertainty, which we categorize into two distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Paloma Rabaey , Jong Hak Moon , Jung-Oh Lee , Min Gwan Kim , Hangyul Yoon , Thomas Demeester , Edward Choi

Automatic structuring of electronic medical records is of high demand for clinical workflow solutions to facilitate extraction, storage, and querying of patient care information. However, developing a scalable solution is extremely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Morteza Pourreza Shahri , Amir Tahmasebi , Bingyang Ye , Henghui Zhu , Javed Aslam , Timothy Ferris

In clinics, a radiology report is crucial for guiding a patient's treatment. However, writing radiology reports is a heavy burden for radiologists. To this end, we present an automatic, multi-modal approach for report generation from a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Shuxin Yang , Xian Wu , Shen Ge , S. Kevin Zhou , Li Xiao

Medical imaging is critical to the diagnosis and treatment of numerous medical problems, including many forms of cancer. Medical imaging reports distill the findings and observations of radiologists, creating an unstructured textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Kevin Lybarger , Aashka Damani , Martin Gunn , Ozlem Uzuner , Meliha Yetisgen

Manual chart review remains an extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive component of clinical research, requiring experts to extract often complex information from unstructured electronic health record (EHR) narratives. We present a…

Automated radiology report generation aims to generate radiology reports that contain rich, fine-grained descriptions of radiology imaging. Compared with image captioning in the natural image domain, medical images are very similar to each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuhao Wang

Pathology reports are rich in clinical and pathological details but are often presented in free-text format. The unstructured nature of these reports presents a significant challenge limiting the accessibility of their content. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Ethar Alzaid , Gabriele Pergola , Harriet Evans , David Snead , Fayyaz Minhas

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

Medical image interpretation is central to most clinical applications such as disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and prognostication. In clinical practice, radiologists examine medical images and manually compile their findings into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nurbanu Aksoy , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi

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

Automatic radiology report generation is essential to computer-aided diagnosis. Through the success of image captioning, medical report generation has been achievable. However, the lack of annotated disease labels is still the bottleneck of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jun Li , Shibo Li , Ying Hu , Huiren Tao

Automatically summarizing radiology reports into a concise impression can reduce the manual burden of clinicians and improve the consistency of reporting. Previous work aimed to enhance content selection and factuality through guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jan Trienes , Paul Youssef , Jörg Schlötterer , Christin Seifert

The automation of chest X-ray reporting has garnered significant interest due to the time-consuming nature of the task. However, the clinical accuracy of free-text reports has proven challenging to quantify using natural language processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Matthias Keicher , Kamilia Zaripova , Tobias Czempiel , Kristina Mach , Ashkan Khakzar , Nassir Navab

Understanding how two radiology image sets differ is critical for generating clinical insights and for interpreting medical AI systems. We introduce RadDiff, a multimodal agentic system that performs radiologist-style comparative reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaoxian Shen , Yuhui Zhang , Sahithi Ankireddy , Xiaohan Wang , Maya Varma , Henry Guo , Curtis Langlotz , Serena Yeung-Levy

Radiology reports capture crucial longitudinal information on tumor burden, treatment response, and disease progression, yet their unstructured narrative format complicates automated analysis. While large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Luc Builtjes , Alessa Hering

Despite diverse efforts to mine various modalities of medical data, the conversations between physicians and patients at the time of care remain an untapped source of insights. In this paper, we leverage this data to extract structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Kundan Krishna , Amy Pavel , Benjamin Schloss , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Zachary C. Lipton