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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...
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.
The paper introduces a benchmark for recommending SNOMED CT concepts from masked clinical contexts, using data from the SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge v1.2.1 derived from MIMIC-IV-Note. It evaluates several methods—including a popularity baseline, sparse TF‑IDF prototypes, dense embeddings, and retrieval‑augmented hybrids—finding that sparse TF‑IDF achieves the best performance with Recall@1 of 14.81% and Recall@10 of 33.43%. The study highlights that concept frequency and lexical context strongly influence recommendation quality, with many test pairs involving concepts unseen during training.
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:2606. 19183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can make clinical decision support more accessible by interpreting free-text documentation, but their direct use as diagnostic engines is limited by sensitivity to prompts, information order, and plausible but incorrect outputs.
Medical imaging is a cornerstone of diagnostics, yet automated chest X-ray report generation struggles with structural adherence, anatomical completeness, and semantic faithfulness. We introduce DobicVLM, a vision-language model combining supervised fine-tuning on MedGemma-4B with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and clinically-grounded programmatic rewards.