在报告生成后增加诊断决策环节,提升放射科报告临床准确性
PDD-RRG: Posterior Diagnostic Decision for Study-level Radiology Report Generation

- 生成报告后引入贝叶斯后验概率决策机制
- 在MIMIC-CXR上提升现有模型临床效用,无需重训练
- 适合需增强报告可信度的医疗AI研发人员
自动放射科报告生成(RRG)旨在模拟放射科医生的工作流程,辅助临床诊断。然而,现有方法常未能充分利用检查相关的全部信息,与临床实践不符。尽管部分工作尝试引入多视角图像和历史数据,但这些额外输入有时反而导致可避免的诊断错误。为解决此问题,我们首次在报告生成后引入决策阶段,提出后验诊断决策框架(PDD-RRG),用于整合可能存在冲突的诊断结论。具体地,构建多种输入数据子集,利用现有RRG模型从不同角度生成报告;随后计算每项临床观察的贝叶斯后验概率及学习到的阈值,得出综合诊断结论,并用于优化生成报告。在MIMIC-CXR数据集上的实验表明,所提PDD-RRG可在不进行任何重训练的情况下,有效提升现有RRG模型的临床效能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Automatic radiology report generation (RRG) aims to simulate the workflow of radiologists, assisting them in clinical diagnosis. However, existing methods often fall short in utilizing all information relevant to the examination, as is typically done in clinical practice. Although some works attempt to incorporate multi-view images and historical data, these additional inputs may sometimes lead to avoidable diagnostic errors on the contrary. To address these challenges, we introduce a decision-making stage after report generation for the first time and propose a Posterior Diagnostic Decision framework (PDD-RRG) to integrate potentially conflicting diagnoses. Specifically, we create various subsets of input data and utilize an existing RRG model to generate reports from different perspectives. Then the Bayesian posterior probability and the learned thresholds for each clinical observation are calculated to obtain an aggregated diagnostic conclusion, which is subsequently used to refine the generated report. Experiments on MIMIC-CXR demonstrate that our proposed PDD-RRG can effectively enhance the clinical efficacy of existing RRG models without any retraining.
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