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We combine two language models, the Show-Attend-Telland the GPT-3, to generate comprehensive and descriptive radiology records. The proposed combination of these models generates a textual summary with the essential information about pathologies found, their location, and the 2D heatmaps localizing each pathology on the original X-Ray scans. The proposed model is tested on two medical datasets, the Open-I,MIMIC-CXR, and the general-purpose MS-COCO. The results measured with the natural language assessment metrics provetheir efficient applicability to the chest X-Ray image captioning. Health sciences/Health care/Medical imaging/Radiography Physical sciences/Mathematics and computing/Computer science Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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