Medical Image Captioning via Generative Pretrained Transformers

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This study combined Show-Attend-Tell and GPT-3 language models to generate descriptive radiology reports for chest X-rays, localizing pathologies with heatmaps and achieving efficient applicability on medical datasets.

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This paper studied automatic medical image captioning by combining frontal chest X-ray image analysis with structured radiology-record information to generate descriptive textual outputs. The authors combined a Show-Attend-Tell model with GPT-3 to produce radiology summaries that include identified pathologies, their locations, and 2D heatmaps localizing each pathology on the original X-ray. They evaluated the approach on Open-I and MIMIC-CXR as well as MS-COCO, reporting performance using natural-language assessment metrics. A major limitation stated in the abstract is that evaluation is based on these language assessment metrics rather than clinical outcomes. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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Abstract The automatic clinical caption generation problem is referred to as proposed model combining the analysis of frontal chest X-Rayscans with structured patient information from the radiology records. 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.
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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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