arXiv:2606.28393cs.CV2026-06

让医学影像报告自动识别前后检查变化,提升诊断准确性。

Transition-Aware best-of-N sampling for Longitudinal Chest X-ray Reports

  • 将前后检查报告转为向量差,捕捉变化特征
  • 在多轮评估中,结论部分准确率提升显著
  • 无需训练,适配现有报告生成模型

在纵向临床实践中,每张胸部X光片的解读都依赖于患者之前的检查结果,放射科医生的大部分描述其实都是两次就诊之间的变化。据我们所知,本文首次提出一种无需训练的 best-of-N 采样方法,专为预训练的胸部X光报告生成器设计,能显式感知从先前检查到当前检查的过渡信息。该方法将每份报告拆分为句子并嵌入d维空间构成无序集合;每个(前次,当前)报告对通过一种集到集的距离度量转化为固定维度的方向向量,以编码两者间的改变;候选报告通过其候选转换向量与缓存的真值训练转换向量库之间的余弦距离进行评分,聚合方式采用最小值或k近邻。我们在一个多时间点的AP-PA队列上评估,使用三种提示词在三个视觉语言生成器上运行推理。结果显示,过渡感知的 best-of-N 在所有情况下均优于随机选择,尤其在‘印象’部分提升最为明显。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In longitudinal clinical practice, every chest X-ray is read in the context of the patients prior exam, and much of what the radiologist communicates is the change from one visit to the next. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first training-free best-of-N sampling scheme for pre-trained chest X-ray report generators that is explicitly aware of this longitudinal prior to current transition. We call it transition-aware best-of-N sampling, each report is split into sentences and embedded into an unordered set in Rd; each (prior, current) pair is reduced to a fixed-dim directional vector via a set-to-set distance designed to encode the change between the two sets; and candidates are scored by cosine distance from their candidate transition vector to a cached bank of ground-truth training transition vectors, aggregated as min or kNN. We instantiate the framework with four directional set distances (mean-shift, novelty residual, directed-Hausdorff anchor, and cost-weighted optimal transport) and evaluate on a multi-visit AP-PA cohort, running inference under three prompts on three vision-language generators. Transition-aware best-of-N outperforms random selection across the board, with the largest relative gains on the Impression section.

医学影像报告生成纵向分析自然语言处理

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