The paper introduces Efficient Multi-Granularity Knowledge Transfer (EMGKT) for radiology report generation, aiming to improve medical knowledge extraction from X‑ray images. EMGKT encodes global knowledge via a medical vision‑language model and employs Fine‑Grained Knowledge Distillation (FGKD) to learn fine‑level embeddings without extra priors during inference. Additionally, a mixture of disease‑diagnosis expert classifiers is used to further enhance knowledge extraction, and the method is shown to be effective and transferable across datasets and baselines.
arXiv:2409.16183v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Radiology is a vital and complex component of modern clinical workflow and covers many tasks. Recently, vision-language (VL) foundation models in m...
arXiv:2609.37682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid expansion of large-scale medical datasets and computational resources has driven significant progress in medical foundation models. Given the...
arXiv:2605. 22547v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical image diagnosis has achieved significant progress with deep learning, yet existing methods often rely on isolated visual evidence and lack the ability to effectively leverage similar cases and external knowledge.
arXiv:2607. 14116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Free-form radiology reports contain rich clinical descriptions, yet converting them for reliable segmentation remains challenging due to the inherent variability of natural language.
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:2608.24121v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radiology report generation (RRG) has recently benefited from large language models, which substantially improve report fluency. However, clinically fa...
arXiv:2603.11938v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structured radiology reporting promises faster, more consistent communication than free text, but automation remains difficult as models must...
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. 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).
LiteMedCoT-VL is a parameter‑efficient pipeline that transfers chain‑of‑thought reasoning from a 235B teacher model to a 2B student model using LoRA fine‑tuning on explanation‑enriched data. The approach enables a compact vision‑language model to perform medical visual question answering without relying on image captions, achieving 64.9% accuracy on the PMC‑VQA benchmark—an 11‑point improvement over the zero‑shot Qwen3‑VL‑4B baseline. Visual grounding analysis confirms that the model bases its predictions on image content rather than textual priors.
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...
arXiv:2607. 11257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathology Foundation Models (PFMs) offer powerful Whole Slide Image (WSI) representations but suffer from massive computational costs.