The paper examines how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Named Entity Recognition (NER) affect the quality of lay summaries of radiology reports. Using a framework that extracts clinically relevant findings via NER and grounds them with RAG, the authors evaluate few‑shot and fine‑tuned versions of Qwen and BioBART. Results show that NER consistently improves readability and overall quality, RAG alone offers no benefit and can introduce hallucinations, and the best performance comes from fine‑tuned BioBART with NER.
By Egecan \c{C}elik Evgin, \.Ilknur Karadeniz, Olcay Taner Y{\i}ld{\i}z
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.
By Suneeta Mall, Vladimir Nekrasov, Ashnil Kumar, Sajith Karunasena, Aiden Nibali, Alix Bird, Mateo Diaz Shine, Jarrel Seah
MTDiag is a newly released multi-turn diagnostic dialogue dataset designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) in clinically meaningful ways. It is built from DDXPlus, MIMIC-IV, and AJCR case reports, covering both common emergency department presentations and rare conditions, and normalizes cases into a canonical schema using UMLS concept identifiers and ICD-10 codes. The dataset includes a UserLM‑8B utterance‑generation pipeline and physician‑validated natural‑language utterances, and introduces clinical knowledge‑grounded metrics that go beyond simple diagnostic accuracy for multi‑turn differential diagnosis tasks.
By Pia Chouayfati, Alexander M. Fichtl, Miriam Ansch\"utz, George Doumat, Georg Groh
CT‑ΔBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate vision‑language models on longitudinal 3D medical imaging difference reporting. It provides patient‑level split data, change‑aware metrics, and physician‑validated references to assess clinically meaningful interval changes between two CT scans. The paper also introduces DeltaMed, a baseline model that directly reasons over paired CT scans, and compares it to an indirect two‑stage approach that first generates single‑timepoint reports before differencing.
By Kegeng Tang, Jingbo Wang, Shaogang Ren, Zihao Wang
ASTAR is an LLM-based framework that automatically generates standardized radiology reporting templates from large-scale clinical free-text corpora, eliminating the manual, expert-driven template construction process. In experiments on 4,215 fetal brain MRI reports from multiple centers, ASTAR‑induced templates outperformed two expert‑curated templates in template coverage, information fidelity, diagnostic fidelity, and expert‑rated usability. The approach reduces template development time from weeks of committee deliberation to hours of automated processing.
By Xinfeng Zhang, Mingxuan Liu, Yifei Chen, Juncheng Zhu, Kasidit Anmahapong, Yiming Huang, Yuan Zhang, Hongjia Yang, Yi Liao, Gang Ning, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian
arXiv:2605.30984v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Modern 3D medical vision-language models (VLMs) can generate fluent radiology-style text while exhibit critically low pathology detection and...
By Tom Maye-Lasserre, Yitong Li, Bailiang Jian, Morteza Ghahremani, Benedikt Wiestler, Christian Wachinger
TALON is a Temporally Aware Longitudinal framework for radiology report generation that adaptively integrates variable‑length patient histories. Its Dual‑Channel Temporal Fusion Module compares each prior examination with the current one through similarity and change channels, using channel‑specific attention and a prior‑specific gate to weigh relevance and suppress redundancy. Experiments on MIMIC‑CXR demonstrate that TALON surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods on clinical efficacy and graph‑based metrics, with performance improving as more prior examinations are available.
By Nien-Tsyr Sun, Min-Chen Chen, Hui Nien Hung, Vincent S. Tseng
arXiv:2508. 16674v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical report understanding from real-world document images is essential for generating patient-facing explanations and enabling structured information exchange in clinical systems.
By Fangxin Shang, Yuan Xia, Dalu Yang, Yahui Wang, Binglin Yang
CliniCIRCA is a modular large‑language‑model framework that reconstructs longitudinal mental‑health patient journeys from raw electronic health record narratives. It temporally classifies clinical events in unstructured discharge summaries without explicit timestamps, producing 15,891 tagged events from 52 summaries and correcting 629 errors to create verified gold‑standard timelines. The framework then generates temporally grounded summaries, compressing each source by 1.52×, and scales to produce 1,000 silver‑standard timelines for training, showing that instruction tuning improves event extraction, temporal tagging, and summarization across models.
By Aiwei Ivy Zhang, Nimra Ishfaq, Mohit Chandra, Santiago Alvarez Lesmes, Adam Coscia, Khatiya Chelidze Moon, Xiaohan Ding, Munmun De Choudhury
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...
By Charles Corbi\`ere, L\'eo Machado, Aubin Charley, Baptiste Callard, Pierre Manceron, Corentin Dancette
The study examines how differences in radiologists’ reporting styles—such as terminology, shorthand, formatting, and detail—affect the evaluation of AI-generated chest X‑ray reports. By quantifying the sensitivity of common metrics to these variations, the authors show that changes in reference reports can shift model rankings. They introduce a taxonomy of reporting variations and a rewriting method, ReRef, that preserves clinical meaning while altering style, and release a validated dataset of paired reference reports to aid future research.
By Daniel P. Jeong, Charles Q. Li, Hossein Hosseiny, Nitya M. Bhalla, Fatma Uyar Morency, Pradeep Ravikumar, Zachary C. Lipton, Michael Oberst
arXiv:2608.30021v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Errors in radiology reports can adversely affect patient treatment, yet automated report quality assurance remains challenging because errors are oft...
By Hermione Warr, Harry Anthony, Lilli J Freischem, Yasin Ibrahim, Daniel R McGowan, Konstantinos Kamnitsas