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20222025
most citedMaking the Most of Text Semantics to Improve Biomedical Vision--Language Processing

264 citations · 491 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2025

Closing the Performance Gap Between AI and Radiologists in Chest X-Ray Reporting

Harshita Sharma, Maxwell C. Reynolds, Valentina Salvatelli +26

AI-assisted report generation offers the opportunity to reduce radiologists' workload stemming from expanded screening guidelines, complex cases and workforce shortages, while main…

cs.CV2025

Comprehensive language-image pre-training for 3D medical image understanding

Tassilo Wald, Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci, Yuan Gao +13

In the 3D medical image domain, vision-language pre-training is used to create vision-language encoders (VLEs) that can support radiologists by retrieving patients with similar abn…

cs.CV2025

Data Scaling Laws for Radiology Foundation Models

Maximilian Ilse, Harshita Sharma, Anton Schwaighofer +12

Foundation vision encoders such as CLIP and DINOv2, trained on web-scale data, exhibit strong transfer performance across tasks and datasets. However, medical imaging foundation mo…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

MAIRA-Seg: Enhancing Radiology Report Generation with Segmentation-Aware Multimodal Large Language Models

Harshita Sharma, Valentina Salvatelli, Shaury Srivastav +13

There is growing interest in applying AI to radiology report generation, particularly for chest X-rays (CXRs). This paper investigates whether incorporating pixel-level information…

cs.AI2024★ 19 cited

PadChest-GR: A Bilingual Chest X-ray Dataset for Grounded Radiology Report Generation

Daniel C. Castro, Aurelia Bustos, Shruthi Bannur +11

Radiology report generation (RRG) aims to create free-text radiology reports from clinical imaging. Grounded radiology report generation (GRRG) extends RRG by including the localis…

cs.CL2024★ 16 cited

MAIRA-2: Grounded Radiology Report Generation

Shruthi Bannur, Kenza Bouzid, Daniel C. Castro +18

Radiology reporting is a complex task requiring detailed medical image understanding and precise language generation, for which generative multimodal models offer a promising solut…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

Challenges for Responsible AI Design and Workflow Integration in Healthcare: A Case Study of Automatic Feeding Tube Qualification in Radiology

Anja Thieme, Abhijith Rajamohan, Benjamin Cooper +22

Nasogastric tubes (NGTs) are feeding tubes that are inserted through the nose into the stomach to deliver nutrition or medication. If not placed correctly, they can cause serious h…

cs.HC2024★ 78 cited

Multimodal Healthcare AI: Identifying and Designing Clinically Relevant Vision-Language Applications for Radiology

Nur Yildirim, Hannah Richardson, Maria T. Wetscherek +18

Recent advances in AI combine large language models (LLMs) with vision encoders that bring forward unprecedented technical capabilities to leverage for a wide range of healthcare a…

cs.CV2024★ 69 cited

Exploring scalable medical image encoders beyond text supervision

Fernando Pérez-García, Harshita Sharma, Sam Bond-Taylor +12

Language-supervised pre-training has proven to be a valuable method for extracting semantically meaningful features from images, serving as a foundational element in multimodal sys…

cs.CV2023★ 14 cited

RadEdit: stress-testing biomedical vision models via diffusion image editing

Fernando Pérez-García, Sam Bond-Taylor, Pedro P. Sanchez +11

Biomedical imaging datasets are often small and biased, meaning that real-world performance of predictive models can be substantially lower than expected from internal testing. Thi…

cs.CL2023★ 15 cited

MAIRA-1: A specialised large multimodal model for radiology report generation

Stephanie L. Hyland, Shruthi Bannur, Kenza Bouzid +12

We present a radiology-specific multimodal model for the task for generating radiological reports from chest X-rays (CXRs). Our work builds on the idea that large language model(s)…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Exploring the Boundaries of GPT-4 in Radiology

Qianchu Liu, Stephanie Hyland, Shruthi Bannur +16

The recent success of general-domain large language models (LLMs) has significantly changed the natural language processing paradigm towards a unified foundation model across domai…

cs.CV2023★ 12 cited

Learning to Exploit Temporal Structure for Biomedical Vision-Language Processing

Shruthi Bannur, Stephanie Hyland, Qianchu Liu +13

Self-supervised learning in vision-language processing exploits semantic alignment between imaging and text modalities. Prior work in biomedical VLP has mostly relied on the alignm…

cs.CV2022★ 264 cited

Making the Most of Text Semantics to Improve Biomedical Vision--Language Processing

Benedikt Boecking, Naoto Usuyama, Shruthi Bannur +9

Multi-modal data abounds in biomedicine, such as radiology images and reports. Interpreting this data at scale is essential for improving clinical care and accelerating clinical re…