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.
arXiv:2608.27690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiovascular risk prediction remains limited by incomplete clinical data and imaging biomarkers that reduce computed tomography (CT) to a small num...
arXiv:2609.01470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems are increasingly used to draft radiology reports, reliably evaluating their clinical quality remains a critical challenge. Large language...
arXiv:2607. 05880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imaging demand is growing faster than the radiology workforce can expand, and reporting backlogs cannot be resolved through training and recruitment alone.
arXiv:2608. 00147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language pretraining learns rich medical image representations from radiology reports, but previous model variants commonly operate within a single shared embedding space, so concept-level structure and interpretability must be recovered post hoc, limiting model transparency and, hence, clinical utility.
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.
A multicenter study developed an AI-enabled electrocardiography (AI-ECG) model that predicts vessel-specific hemodynamically significant stenosis using coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) as the reference. The model demonstrated strong discrimination in internal and external cohorts, including normal ECGs, and produced low-, intermediate-, and high-risk strata that correlated with stenosis severity and major adverse cardiovascular events. Calibration, decision curve analyses, and integration with guideline-based pre-test probability showed clinical utility, while waveform and attribution analyses revealed physiologically meaningful ECG features linked to high-risk predictions.
arXiv:2608.22059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained image encoders are central to medical image classification, where expert annotation is costly and task-specific cohorts are often limited....
The study introduces Auditable CT Phenotyping (ACT), a method that uses report-derived radiological observations to predict 221 electronic-health-record phenotypes from CT scans. Trained on 38,317 patients and evaluated on 25,183 held‑out patients, ACT outperformed five vision‑language baselines and CT‑CLIP in both zero‑shot and linear probing settings. Analysis of the model’s probes revealed that a small set of observations, such as aortic and coronary calcification, dominated top predictions, but restricting the observation bank to clinician‑specified evidence improved interpretability without sacrificing accuracy.
arXiv:2411. 15122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI-driven models have demonstrated significant potential in automating radiology report generation for chest X-rays.
arXiv:2608. 16643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated detection of errors in clinical documentation is a promising application of large language models (LLMs), yet decisions to deploy such models rest on benchmarks that evaluate each clinical note in isolation.
The study investigates how refined annotations versus model training changes affect pulmonary embolism segmentation performance. By re‑annotating 149 CT pulmonary angiography cases and evaluating two pretrained nnU-Net models, the authors find that improving annotation quality increases the Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) by 0.143–0.188, far exceeding the 0.028 DSC change from altering training datasets. A new human‑referenced benchmark model (nnPE) was trained and publicly released, though it performed below all annotators in paired comparisons.