Astra可跨机构生成精准3DCT报告,提升放射科效率。
Astra: a generalizable report generation foundation model for 3D computed tomography

- 用多中心数据训练并用强化学习统一报告风格和诊断术语。
- 在6个外部数据集上诊断准确率平均提升38.4%(p<0.001)。
- 无需微调即可帮助医生提速30%,适合临床部署与后续研究。
CT影像解读需分析数百张三维切片,耗时且依赖经验。自动化报告生成有望提升效率,但缺乏支持多区域、跨机构通用的模型。不同机构间报告风格和术语不一致,导致联合训练困难。本文提出Astra,基于全球5个机构收集的90,678例胸腹CT-报告对(CTRgDB),涵盖353,671处异常,覆盖8个器官系统。通过统一报告风格并利用强化学习优化诊断一致性,Astra在多样解剖区域和机构间实现风格一致、诊断准确的报告生成。在CTRgDB及6个外部队列上评估,细粒度诊断指标平均提升38.4%(p<0.001)。无任何本地微调地部署于外部临床站点,使胸部报告撰写加速29.6%,腹部报告完整度提升11.3%(均p<0.001)。Astra还具备广泛适用性,可作为CT-AI开发基础,提升下游诊断性能并促进视觉-语言预训练扩展。整体上,Astra是可广泛获取的临床助手,也是下一代智能医疗的关键基础设施。代码已公开于https://github.com/zh-Wang-Med/Astra。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Interpreting computed tomography (CT) requires review of hundreds of volumetric slices and remains time-intensive and expertise-dependent. Automated CT report generation offers a promising route to improving clinical efficiency, yet the field still lacks a generalizable CT report generation foundation model that supports multi-region reporting and remains robust across external real-world cohorts. Intrinsic inconsistencies in reporting style and diagnostic terminology across cohorts make naive joint training difficult. Here we present Astra, a generalizable CT report generation foundation model developed on 90,678 thoracoabdominal CT-report pairs collected from five sites worldwide (CTRgDB), comprising 353,671 abnormalities spanning eight organ systems. By harmonizing report style and further refining diagnostic consistency via reinforcement learning, Astra achieves style-consistent and diagnostically accurate report generation across diverse anatomical regions and institutions. Evaluated on CTRgDB and six external cohorts, Astra achieves state-of-the-art performance with a 38.4% average improvement in fine-grained diagnostic metrics (P<0.001). Deployed at external clinical sites without any site-specific fine-tuning, Astra accelerated chest report drafting by 29.6% and improved abdominal report completeness by 11.3% among junior and mid-level radiologists (P<0.001). Furthermore, Astra demonstrates broad utility as a foundation for CT AI development, improving downstream diagnostic performance and scaling vision-language pretrain through high-quality report synthesis. Overall, Astra serves as a broadly accessible clinical assistant and a pivotal infrastructure for the next generation of AI-powered healthcare. The code for Astra is publicly available at https://github.com/zh-Wang-Med/Astra.
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