CADxReport: Chest x-ray report generation using co-attention mechanism and reinforcement learning.

Journal: Computers in biology and medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Automated generation of radiological reports for different imaging modalities is essentially required to smoothen the clinical workflow and alleviate radiologists' workload. It involves the careful amalgamation of image processing techniques for medical image interpretation and language generation techniques for report generation. This paper presents CADxReport, a coattention and reinforcement learning based technique for generating clinically accurate reports from chest x-ray (CXR) images.

Authors

  • Navdeep Kaur
    Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College and Hospitals, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
  • Ajay Mittal
    UIET, Panjab University, Sector-25, Chandigarh, 160014, India. Electronic address: ajaymittal@pu.ac.in.