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most citedFoundation Models in Radiology: What, How, When, Why and Why Not

90 citations · 209 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.CV2026

Symbal: Detecting Systematic Misalignments in Model-Generated Captions

Maya Varma, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Sophie Ostmeier +2

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often introduce errors when generating image captions, resulting in misaligned image-text pairs. Our work focuses on a class of captioning…

cs.CV2026

BenchX: Benchmarking AI Models for Cancer Detection and Localization with Demographic and Protocol Biases

Qi Chen, Wenxuan Li, Pedro R. A. S. Bassi +14

Artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved remarkable success in medical imaging, but it is widely recognized that these models often perform inconsistently across real-world clinic…

cs.CV2026

CheXTemporal: A Dataset for Temporally-Grounded Reasoning in Chest Radiography

Eva Prakash, Yunhe Gao, Chong Wang +10

Chest radiograph interpretation requires temporal reasoning over prior and current studies, yet most vision-language models are trained on static image-report pairs and lack explic…

cs.CV2026

CheXthought: A global multimodal dataset of clinical chain-of-thought reasoning and visual attention for chest X-ray interpretation

Sonali Sharma, Jin Long, George Shih +7

Chest X-ray interpretation is one of the most frequently performed diagnostic tasks in medicine and a primary target for AI development, yet current vision-language models are prim…

cs.CV2026

A Reasoning-Enabled Vision-Language Foundation Model for Chest X-ray Interpretation

Yabin Zhang, Chong Wang, Yunhe Gao +19

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are among the most frequently performed imaging examinations worldwide, yet rising imaging volumes increase radiologist workload and the risk of diagnostic erro…

cs.CV2026

Activation Matters: Test-time Activated Negative Labels for OOD Detection with Vision-Language Models

Yabin Zhang, Maya Varma, Yunhe Gao +4

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify samples that deviate from in-distribution (ID). One popular pipeline addresses this by introducing negative labels distant from…

cs.CV2026

Learning Generalizable 3D Medical Image Representations from Mask-Guided Self-Supervision

Yunhe Gao, Yabin Zhang, Chong Wang +5

Foundation models have transformed vision and language by learning general-purpose representations from large-scale unlabeled data, yet 3D medical imaging lacks analogous approache…

cs.CV2026

A data- and compute-efficient chest X-ray foundation model beyond aggressive scaling

Chong Wang, Yabin Zhang, Yunhe Gao +9

Foundation models for medical imaging are typically pretrained on increasingly large datasets, following a "scale-at-all-costs" paradigm. However, this strategy faces two critical…

cs.LG2026

Gradient-Stable Attention Heads Signal LLM Correctness

Sophie Ostmeier, Brian Axelrod, Maya Varma +6

Large language models (LLMs) often generate plausible yet incorrect answers, posing risks in safety-critical settings such as medicine. Human evaluation is expensive, and LLM-as-ju…

cs.CV2026

RadDiff: Describing Differences in Radiology Image Sets with Natural Language

Xiaoxian Shen, Yuhui Zhang, Sahithi Ankireddy +5

Understanding how two radiology image sets differ is critical for generating clinical insights and for interpreting medical AI systems. We introduce RadDiff, a multimodal agentic s…

cs.CV2025

TRoVe: Discovering Error-Inducing Static Feature Biases in Temporal Vision-Language Models

Maya Varma, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Sophie Ostmeier +2

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made great strides in addressing temporal understanding tasks, which involve characterizing visual changes across a sequence of images. However,…

cs.CL2025

Improving the Performance of Radiology Report De-identification with Large-Scale Training and Benchmarking Against Cloud Vendor Methods

Eva Prakash, Maayane Attias, Pierre Chambon +5

Objective: To enhance automated de-identification of radiology reports by scaling transformer-based models through extensive training datasets and benchmarking performance against…

cs.CL2025

Process Reward Models for Sentence-Level Verification of LVLM Radiology Reports

Alois Thomas, Maya Varma, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck +1

Automating radiology report generation with Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) holds great potential, yet these models often produce clinically critical hallucinations, posing se…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Agentic Systems in Radiology: Design, Applications, Evaluation, and Challenges

Christian Bluethgen, Dave Van Veen, Daniel Truhn +8

Building agents, systems that perceive and act upon their environment with a degree of autonomy, has long been a focus of AI research. This pursuit has recently become vastly more…

cs.CV2025

From Detection to Mitigation: Addressing Bias in Deep Learning Models for Chest X-Ray Diagnosis

Clemence Mottez, Louisa Fay, Maya Varma +2

Deep learning models have shown promise in improving diagnostic accuracy from chest X-rays, but they also risk perpetuating healthcare disparities when performance varies across de…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Improving Performance, Robustness, and Fairness of Radiographic AI Models with Finely-Controllable Synthetic Data

Stefania L. Moroianu, Christian Bluethgen, Pierre Chambon +8

Achieving robust performance and fairness across diverse patient populations remains a challenge in developing clinically deployable deep learning models for diagnostic imaging. Sy…

cs.CL2025

Structuring Radiology Reports: Challenging LLMs with Lightweight Models

Johannes Moll, Louisa Fay, Asfandyar Azhar +5

Radiology reports are critical for clinical decision-making but often lack a standardized format, limiting both human interpretability and machine learning (ML) applications. While…

cs.CL2025

Automated Structured Radiology Report Generation

Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Justin Xu, Johannes Moll +11

Automated radiology report generation from chest X-ray (CXR) images has the potential to improve clinical efficiency and reduce radiologists' workload. However, most datasets, incl…

eess.IV2025

MedVAE: Efficient Automated Interpretation of Medical Images with Large-Scale Generalizable Autoencoders

Maya Varma, Ashwin Kumar, Rogier van der Sluijs +7

Medical images are acquired at high resolutions with large fields of view in order to capture fine-grained features necessary for clinical decision-making. Consequently, training d…

cs.AI2024★ 35 cited

Best Practices for Large Language Models in Radiology

Christian Bluethgen, Dave Van Veen, Cyril Zakka +7

At the heart of radiological practice is the challenge of integrating complex imaging data with clinical information to produce actionable insights. Nuanced application of language…

cs.CV2024

RaVL: Discovering and Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models

Maya Varma, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Zhihong Chen +2

Fine-tuned vision-language models (VLMs) often capture spurious correlations between image features and textual attributes, resulting in degraded zero-shot performance at test time…

cs.LG2024★ 90 cited

Foundation Models in Radiology: What, How, When, Why and Why Not

Magdalini Paschali, Zhihong Chen, Louis Blankemeier +6

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have witnessed the emergence of large-scale deep learning models capable of interpreting and generating both textual and imaging data. Su…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

CheXalign: Preference fine-tuning in chest X-ray interpretation models without human feedback

Dennis Hein, Zhihong Chen, Sophie Ostmeier +8

Radiologists play a crucial role in translating medical images into actionable reports. However, the field faces staffing shortages and increasing workloads. While automated approa…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Overview of the First Shared Task on Clinical Text Generation: RRG24 and "Discharge Me!"

Justin Xu, Zhihong Chen, Andrew Johnston +9

Recent developments in natural language generation have tremendous implications for healthcare. For instance, state-of-the-art systems could automate the generation of sections in…