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arXiv AI By Daniel P. Jeong, Charles Q. Li, Hossein Hosseiny, Nitya M. Bhalla, Fatma Uyar Morency, Pradeep Ravikumar, Zachary C. Lipton, Michael Oberst

Reporting Practice Matters: The Impact of Reference Choice on Chest X-ray Report Evaluation

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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.

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