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
Vision-language pre-training (VLP) holds great promise for general-purpose medical AI by leveraging radiology reports as rich textual supervision, yet existing methods struggle with 3D CT imaging due to inefficient visual backbones and coarse semantic alignment. To address these issues, we propose a tailored VLP framework featuring three key components: (1) a CNN-ViT hybrid encoder that replaces ViT's patch embedding with a 3D CNN backbone to efficiently capture local anatomical details while preserving global attention and compatibility with pre-trained cross-modal priors; (2) a disease-level contrastive learning mechanism using learnable query tokens to dynamically extract disease-specific semantics from full reports and align them with corresponding visual features, thereby disentangling distinct diseases within the same anatomical region; and (3) a diagnosis-aware prompt strategy that employs real clinical phrases and aggregated disease prototypes to bridge the pre-training-inference gap and enhance zero-shot diagnostic reliability.
arXiv:2607. 02998v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Controllable generative models of 3D medical images can synthesize volumes with specified clinical attributes, but this demands samples that are simultaneously high-fidelity, natively 3D, and faithful to the requested conditioning.
By Max Van Puyvelde, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Wim Van Criekinge, Olivier Gevaert
arXiv:2607. 02998v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controllable generative models of 3D medical images can synthesize volumes with specified clinical attributes, but this demands samples that are simultaneously high-fidelity, natively 3D, and faithful to the requested conditioning.
By Max Van Puyvelde, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Wim Van Criekinge, Olivier Gevaert
arXiv:2608. 13939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound feature categories that are aggregated into five risk levels (TR1-TR5).
By Bingxin Yu, Xueli Wang, Jerry Zhou, Wenyan Wang, Li Wen, Lan Huang, Xin Feng, Fengfeng Zhou, Kewei Li
arXiv:2606. 19460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the first generative foundation model for chest radiograph synthesis trained from scratch at the billion-parameter scale.
By Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro, Emma A. M. Stanley, Charles Jones, Tian Xia, Dominic C. Marshall, Laurent Renard Trich\'e, Christopher V. Cosgriff, Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Ben Glocker
arXiv:2601. 03321v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced Radiology Report Generation (RRG), yet aligning them through reinforcement learning (RL) remains challenging due to heterogeneous medical supervision.
By Kun Zhao, Guodong Liu, Hui Ji, Siyuan Dai, Pan Wang, Jifeng Song, Chenghua Lin, Liang Zhan, Haoteng Tang
arXiv:2604. 15231v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLM) have markedly advanced AI-driven interpretation and reporting of complex medical imaging, such as computed tomography (CT).
By M\'elanie Roschewitz, Kenneth Styppa, Yitian Tao, Jiwoong Sohn, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Benjamin Gundersen, Nicolas Deperrois, Christian Bluethgen, Julia E. Vogt, Bjoern Menze, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Michael Krauthammer, Michael Moor
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:2606. 28164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Echocardiography is the most widely used non-invasive cardiac imaging modality, providing essential information for cardiovascular diagnosis.
By Darya Taratynova, Ahmed Aly, Numan Saeed, Mohammad Yaqub
arXiv:2607. 04478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated chest X-ray classification remains challenging due to severe class imbalance, co-occurring pathologies, and the loss of localized features in conventional architectures.
By Moshiur Rahman, Shafqat Alam, Tasnia Binte Mamun
arXiv:2606. 01537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical diagnosis often requires combining imaging with physiological measurements, yet deployed models typically operate on unimodal data.
By Yancheng Liu, Kenichi Maeda, Manan Pancholy