arXiv Machine Learning

Revisiting Performance Claims for Chest X-Ray Models Using Clinical Context

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Rethinking Clinical Relevance in Chest X-ray Machine Learning: How Evaluation References Define Performance

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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

C$^2$A: Coupling Spatial Evidence with Clinical Priors via Co-occurrence Aware Class Attention for Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Classification

arXiv:2608. 09774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thoracic pathologies rarely occur in isolation, yet standard multi-label classifiers rely on shared global descriptors, discarding \emph{where} findings lie and \emph{how} they co-occur.

By Akash Gogineni, Nagur Shareef Shaik, Aasrith Mandava, Adnan Masood, Dong Hye Ye
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

SHOVIR: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision Shortcut Learning in Radiology Report Generation

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 Machine Learning
Aug 7

Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation

arXiv:2608. 05341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for radiology report generation are typically trained on retrospective clinical reports, which suffer from omission noise: clinically present findings are left unreported due to the omission of subtle findings.

By Yuta Kobayashi, Pradyun Ramesh, Muhammad Ahmed Chaudhry, Vincent Jeanselme, Judy Wawira Gichoya, Sanmi Koyejo, Kathleen Capaccione, Shalmali Joshi
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

CoM$^3$eT: A foundation model for medical image analysis through federated, multidimensional context integration

arXiv:2608. 16268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical foundation models improve generalization when training AI models with limited labeled data, but remain confined to a single specialty, such as pathology or radiology, and to either sparse or dense outputs, such as classification or segmentation.

By J. Raphael Sch\"afer, Kai Geissler, Till Nicke, Chiara Tappermann, Karoline Heber, Eike Petersen, Habib Mergan, Lars Ole Schwen, Nick Weiss, Annika Gerken, Jan Hendrik Moltz, Tom Bisson, Isil Dogan O, Tim-Rasmus Kiehl, Norman Zerbe, Sefer Elezkurtaj, Robin S. Mayer, Nadine Flinner, Peter Wild, Isabel Dahm, Felix Peisen, Heinrich von Busch, Robert Grimm, Sebastian Arndt, Lisa Siegler, Matthias Stefan May, Antje Prasse, Natalia Artysh, Fabian Kiessling, Johannes Lotz
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

CXR-Retrieve: Compositional Text-to-Image Retrieval in Chest Radiography

Large chest radiography archives are difficult to search because most studies are paired only with free-text reports rather than structured clinical annotations. Vision-language models offer a natural interface for text-to-image retrieval, but current biomedical models are primarily optimized for report-to-image matching rather than for satisfying short clinical search queries.

arXiv AI
Aug 5

CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement

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 Machine Learning
Aug 4

RadPRISM: Schema-stratified radiology-report supervision for concept-disentangled image representations and visual grounding

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.

By Fabian Drexel, Marlene Fritzsche, Era Stambollxhiu, Miriam Kumpf, Lena Schmitzer, Lea Schumann, Jannik Kahmann, Friedrich Puttkammer, Johannes Moll, Jannik L\"ubberstedt, Zeineb Ben Chaaben, Anirudh Narayanan, Cosmin I. Bercea, Sebastian Ziegelmayer, Marcus R. Makowski, Daniel Rueckert, Lisa C. Adams, Keno K. Bressem