arXiv:2608. 03890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A clinically useful chest X-ray system must go beyond fluent report generation: it should classify findings with tunable decision thresholds, localize them spatially, and derive the anatomical measurements upon which many diagnoses depend.
By Mercy Prasanna Ranjit, Anirban Porya, Sathvik Joel, Niharika Vadlamudi, Nikhilesh Chowdary Eathamukkala, Prasanth V V, Abhyuday Kumara Swamy, Pranay Narhari Umredkar, Pradeep Narayan, Vivek Rajagopal, Tanuja Ganu
arXiv:2509. 19671v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Public datasets of Chest X-Rays (CXRs) have long been a popular benchmark for developing machine learning (ML) computer vision models in healthcare.
By Andrew Wang, Jiashuo Zhang, Michael Oberst
arXiv:2606. 31099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent years have seen substantial advances in radiology report generation (RRG), yet existing approaches predominantly adopt direct feature fusion when handling multi-view X-ray images.
By Yucheng Chen, Jinjing Zhu, Yang Yu, Yufei Shi, Hane Naghshbandi, Jinhua Liu, Angela S. Koh, Fang Fen, Kian Eng Ong, Si Yong Yeo
arXiv:2601.15891v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-language pretraining has driven progress in medical image representation learning, but it depends on paired image-text data and can inherit...
By Anas Anwarul Haq Khan, Mariam Husain, Pratik Jalan, Kshitij Jadhav
Current evaluation protocols for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in Radiology Report Generation (RRG) rely on report-level metrics that measure lexical overlap or aggregate clinical correctness. However, such metrics do not test whether individual diagnostic statements stem from the actual pathological evidence visible in the image.
arXiv:2606. 02035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical imaging interpretation is a foundational pillar of modern clinical diagnostics, yet the manual generation of radiology reports remains a time-consuming process prone to interpretation inconsistencies.
By Yogesh Kumar Meena, Saurabh Agarwal, K. V. Arya
Medical imaging is a cornerstone of diagnostics, yet automated chest X-ray report generation struggles with structural adherence, anatomical completeness, and semantic faithfulness. We introduce DobicVLM, a vision-language model combining supervised fine-tuning on MedGemma-4B with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and clinically-grounded programmatic rewards.
arXiv:2607. 26333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chest X-ray (CXR) machine learning relies heavily on automated evaluation using reference standards that aim to approximate clinical judgment.
By Panagiotis Fytas, Ian Selby, Clemens Karner, Judith Babar, Simon Baker, Jake Beckford, Timothy J. Sadler, Shahab Shahipasand, Arthikkaa Thavakumar, John Li Chen, Alex Sawer, Michael Roberts, Jonathan Weir-McCall, J. H. F. Rudd, Carola-Bibiane Sch\"onlieb, Anna Korhonen, Anna Breger
arXiv:2609.24879v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Counterfactual image generation answers questions about how a subject would have looked under retrospective, hypothetical scenarios. Recent methods hav...
By Xiaodan Xing, Rajat R. Rasal, Julia A. Meister, Sara Ghorayeb, Galvin Khara, Jessica Schrouff
Med-AR introduces two autoregressive vision‑language models, Med‑AR‑8B and Med‑AR‑2B, pretrained on structured radiology reports, abnormality‑focused text, and region annotations to address long‑tailed chest X‑ray classification. The models outperform existing contrastive, self‑supervised, and supervised encoders—including Med‑CLIP, CheXFound, EVA‑Base, ARK, and BioViL‑T—across PadChest, MIMIC‑CXR, and CheXpert, achieving higher mean AUROC and AUPRC for head, medium, and tail findings and lower excess area under the risk‑coverage curve. Med‑AR also demonstrates improved selective‑prediction performance, with Med‑AR‑8B raising tail‑label mean AUPRC on MIMIC‑CXR from 0.1033 to 0.1441 and Med‑AR‑2B delivering the strongest discrimination on PadChest.
By Janhavi Prabhu, Sahil, Akshay V, Shivam Shukla, Manoj Tadepalli, Preetham Putha
arXiv:2411. 15122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI-driven models have demonstrated significant potential in automating radiology report generation for chest X-rays.
By Xiaoman Zhang, Hong-Yu Zhou, Xiaoli Yang, Oishi Banerjee, Juli\'an N. Acosta, Mohammed Baharoon, Josh Miller, Ouwen Huang, Pranav Rajpurkar
arXiv:2606. 12590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved strong performance across medical imaging tasks, yet they remain prone to factual inconsistencies, poor visual grounding, and misalignment with clinically meaningful feedback.
By Shayan Mohammadizadehsamakosh, Pritam Sarkar, Leonid Sigal, Ali Etemad, Elham Dolatabadi