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Detecting and classifying lesions in breast ultrasound images is a promising application of artificial intelligence (AI) for reducing the burden of cancer in regions with limited access to mammography. Such AI systems are more likely to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Arianna Bunnell , Yannik Glaser , Dustin Valdez , Thomas Wolfgruber , Aleen Altamirano , Carol Zamora González , Brenda Y. Hernandez , Peter Sadowski , John A. Shepherd

Chest X ray (CXR) imaging remains a critical diagnostic tool for thoracic conditions, but current automated systems face limitations in pathology coverage, diagnostic accuracy, and integration of visual and textual reasoning. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Wenting Chen , Yi Dong , Zhaojun Ding , Yucheng Shi , Yifan Zhou , Fang Zeng , Yijun Luo , Tianyu Lin , Yihang Su , Yichen Wu , Kai Zhang , Zhen Xiang , Tianming Liu , Ninghao Liu , Lichao Sun , Yixuan Yuan , Xiang Li

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

Interpretability is a crucial factor in building reliable models for various medical applications. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enable interpretable image classification by utilizing human-understandable concepts as intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Injae Kim , Jongha Kim , Joonmyung Choi , Hyunwoo J. Kim

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly central to healthcare, the demand for explainable and trustworthy models is paramount. Current report generation systems for chest X-rays (CXR) often lack mechanisms for validating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Sayeh Gholipour Picha , Dawood Al Chanti , Alice Caplier

Radiology report generation (RRG) has shown great potential in assisting radiologists by automating the labor-intensive task of report writing. While recent advancements have improved the quality and coherence of generated reports, ensuring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chenyu Wang , Weichao Zhou , Shantanu Ghosh , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Wenchao Li

Concept bottleneck models (CBM) aim to produce inherently interpretable models that rely on human-understandable concepts for their predictions. However, existing approaches to design interpretable generative models based on CBMs are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Akshay Kulkarni , Ge Yan , Chung-En Sun , Tuomas Oikarinen , Tsui-Wei Weng

We propose Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as an approach for automated radiology report writing that leverages multimodally aligned embeddings from a contrastively pretrained vision language model for retrieval of relevant candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Mercy Ranjit , Gopinath Ganapathy , Ranjit Manuel , Tanuja Ganu

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide interpretable prediction by introducing an intermediate Concept Bottleneck Layer (CBL), which encodes human-understandable concepts to explain models' decision. Recent works proposed to utilize Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Divyansh Srivastava , Ge Yan , Tsui-Wei Weng

Automatic radiology report generation is a promising application of multimodal deep learning, aiming to reduce reporting workload and improve consistency. However, current state-of-the-art (SOTA) systems - such as Multimodal AI for…

Automating radiology report generation poses a dual challenge: building clinically reliable systems and designing rigorous evaluation protocols. We introduce a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that serves as both a benchmark and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ahmed T. Elboardy , Ghada Khoriba , Essam A. Rashed

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

With growing demand for interpretability in deep learning, especially in high stakes domains, Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) address this by inserting human understandable concepts into the prediction pipeline, but they are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiakai Lin , Jinchang Zhang , Guoyu Lu

Automated Radiology report generation (RRG) aims at producing detailed descriptions of medical images, reducing radiologists' workload and improving access to high-quality diagnostic services. Existing encoder-decoder models only rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Quang Vinh Nguyen , Minh Duc Nguyen , Thanh Hoang Son Vo , Hyung-Jeong Yang , Soo-Hyung Kim

Machine learning is a vital part of many real-world systems, but several concerns remain about the lack of interpretability, explainability and robustness of black-box AI systems. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBM) address some of these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-24 Hidde Fokkema , Tim van Erven , Sara Magliacane

Automated radiology report generation from 3D CT volumes often suffers from incomplete pathology coverage. We provide empirical evidence that this limitation stems from a representational bottleneck: contrastive 3D CT embeddings encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Renjie Liang , Yiling Ma , Yang Xing , Zhengkang Fan , Jinqian Pan , Chengkun Sun , Li Li , Kuang Gong , Jie Xu

There is growing interest in applying AI to radiology report generation, particularly for chest X-rays (CXRs). This paper investigates whether incorporating pixel-level information through segmentation masks can improve fine-grained image…

Radiologists are tasked with interpreting a large number of images in a daily base, with the responsibility of generating corresponding reports. This demanding workload elevates the risk of human error, potentially leading to treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Jiayu Lei , Xiaoman Zhang , Chaoyi Wu , Lisong Dai , Ya Zhang , Yanyong Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie , Yuehua Li

Deep learning shows promise for medical image analysis but lacks interpretability, hindering adoption in healthcare. Attribution techniques that explain model reasoning may increase trust in deep learning among clinical stakeholders. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yusuf Brima , Marcellin Atemkeng

Generative models have revolutionized Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in multimodal applications. However, adapting these models to the medical domain poses unique challenges due to the complexity of medical data and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Daniele Molino , Francesco di Feola , Linlin Shen , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi