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Sparse Concept Channels in Frozen 3D CT Vision Encoders
Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Lea Bogensperger, Christian Bluethgen +1
Large vision-language models are becoming increasingly dominant in 3D medical image interpretation, but we rarely know <i>which</i> internal units encode clinical findings or <i>wh…
CheXanatomy: Anatomy-Aware Vision-Language Modeling for Chest Radiographs
Sergios Gatidis, Curtis Langlotz, Christian Bluethgen
Vision-language models (VLMs) pretrained on large-scale image-text pairs demonstrate strong image-level understanding, but are primarily optimized for global alignment and do not e…
RadAgent: A tool-using AI agent for stepwise interpretation of chest computed tomography
Mélanie Roschewitz, Kenneth Styppa, Yitian Tao +10
Vision-language models (VLM) have markedly advanced AI-driven interpretation and reporting of complex medical imaging, such as computed tomography (CT). Yet, existing methods large…
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…
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…
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…
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…
MedVAL: Toward Expert-Level Medical Text Validation with Language Models
Asad Aali, Vasiliki Bikia, Maya Varma +24
With the growing use of language models (LMs) in clinical environments, there is an immediate need to evaluate the accuracy and safety of LM-generated medical text. Currently, such…
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…
SMMILE: An Expert-Driven Benchmark for Multimodal Medical In-Context Learning
Melanie Rieff, Maya Varma, Ossian Rabow +9
Multimodal in-context learning (ICL) remains underexplored despite significant potential for domains such as medicine. Clinicians routinely encounter diverse, specialized tasks req…
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…
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…
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…
Evaluating and Improving the Effectiveness of Synthetic Chest X-Rays for Medical Image Analysis
Eva Prakash, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Zhihong Chen +9
Purpose: To explore best-practice approaches for generating synthetic chest X-ray images and augmenting medical imaging datasets to optimize the performance of deep learning models…
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…
Merlin: A Computed Tomography Vision-Language Foundation Model and Dataset
Louis Blankemeier, Ashwin Kumar, Joseph Paul Cohen +37
The large volume of abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans coupled with the shortage of radiologists have intensified the need for automated medical image analysis tools. Previou…
GREEN: Generative Radiology Report Evaluation and Error Notation
Sophie Ostmeier, Justin Xu, Zhihong Chen +8
Evaluating radiology reports is a challenging problem as factual correctness is extremely important due to the need for accurate medical communication about medical images. Existin…
A dataset and benchmark for hospital course summarization with adapted large language models
Asad Aali, Dave Van Veen, Yamin Ishraq Arefeen +9
Brief hospital course (BHC) summaries are clinical documents that summarize a patient's hospital stay. While large language models (LLMs) depict remarkable capabilities in automati…
GenerateCT: Text-Conditional Generation of 3D Chest CT Volumes
Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci, Sezgin Er, Anjany Sekuboyina +13
GenerateCT, the first approach to generating 3D medical imaging conditioned on free-form medical text prompts, incorporates a text encoder and three key components: a novel causal…