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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

Our paper focuses on automating the generation of medical reports from chest X-ray image inputs, a critical yet time-consuming task for radiologists. Unlike existing medical re-port generation efforts that tend to produce human-readable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Hoang T. N. Nguyen , Dong Nie , Taivanbat Badamdorj , Yujie Liu , Yingying Zhu , Jason Truong , Li Cheng

The increasing prevalence of retinal diseases poses a significant challenge to the healthcare system, as the demand for ophthalmologists surpasses the available workforce. This imbalance creates a bottleneck in diagnosis and treatment,…

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Recent advances in deep learning have enabled researchers to explore tasks at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, such as image captioning, visual question answering, visual dialogue, and visual language…

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The rapid increase of computed tomography (CT) scans and their time-consuming manual analysis have created an urgent need for robust automated analysis techniques in clinical settings. These aim to assist radiologists and help them managing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Theo Di Piazza , Carole Lazarus , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel

Radiology report generation aims to automatically generate a clinically accurate and coherent paragraph from the X-ray image, which could relieve radiologists from the heavy burden of report writing. Although various image caption methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Zhongzhen Huang , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

Medical imaging plays a pivotal role in diagnosis and treatment in clinical practice. Inspired by the significant progress in automatic image captioning, various deep learning (DL)-based methods have been proposed to generate radiology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Yixin Wang , Zihao Lin , Zhe Xu , Haoyu Dong , Jiang Tian , Jie Luo , Zhongchao Shi , Yang Zhang , Jianping Fan , Zhiqiang He

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…

Radiology reports are detailed text descriptions of the content of medical scans. Each report describes the presence/absence and location of relevant clinical findings, commonly including comparison with prior exams of the same patient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Francesco Dalla Serra , Chaoyang Wang , Fani Deligianni , Jeffrey Dalton , Alison Q O'Neil

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

The objective of Radiology Report Generation (RRG) is to automatically generate coherent textual analyses of diseases based on radiological images, thereby alleviating the workload of radiologists. Current AI-based methods for RRG primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai

The development of AI-based methods to analyze radiology reports could lead to significant advances in medical diagnosis, from improving diagnostic accuracy to enhancing efficiency and reducing workload. However, the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yuyan Ge , Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Pablo Messina , René Vidal

Increasing demands on medical imaging departments are taking a toll on the radiologist's ability to deliver timely and accurate reports. Recent technological advances in artificial intelligence have demonstrated great potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Phillip Sloan , Philip Clatworthy , Edwin Simpson , Majid Mirmehdi

Recent transformer-based models have made significant strides in generating radiology reports from chest X-ray images. However, a prominent challenge remains: these models often lack prior knowledge, resulting in the generation of synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sanghwan Kim , Farhad Nooralahzadeh , Morteza Rohanian , Koji Fujimoto , Mizuho Nishio , Ryo Sakamoto , Fabio Rinaldi , Michael Krauthammer

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

Medical imaging is frequently used in clinical practice and trials for diagnosis and treatment. Writing imaging reports is time-consuming and can be error-prone for inexperienced radiologists. Therefore, automatically generating radiology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Zhihong Chen , Yan Song , Tsung-Hui Chang , Xiang Wan

Automatic medical report generation (MRG) is of great research value as it has the potential to relieve radiologists from the heavy burden of report writing. Despite recent advancements, accurate MRG remains challenging due to the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Haibo Jin , Haoxuan Che , Yi Lin , Hao Chen

Clinical practice frequently uses medical imaging for diagnosis and treatment. A significant challenge for automatic radiology report generation is that the radiology reports are long narratives consisting of multiple sentences for both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Kaveri Kale , pushpak Bhattacharyya , Kshitij Jadhav

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'…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Renjie Liang , Zhengkang Fan , Jinqian Pan , Chenkun Sun , Bruce Daniel Steinberg , Russell Terry , Jie Xu

Automatic radiology report generation is booming due to its huge application potential for the healthcare industry. However, existing computer vision and natural language processing approaches to tackle this problem are limited in two…

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