arXiv:2608.10505cs.AIcs.CL2026-08

让医学影像报告可调敏感度,适配急诊与确诊不同需求

RadFusion: Towards Threshold-Controllable Radiology Report Generation

论文配图:RadFusion: Towards Threshold-Controllable Radiology Report Generation
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  • 用分类器置信度+视觉问答生成器融合,实现诊断阈值可控
  • 在MIMIC-CXR上报告性能与分类器ROC曲线完全一致
  • 适合需灵活调整诊断标准的临床场景和监管审批

自动化放射科报告生成正快速应对放射科医生短缺问题,但现有生成模型无法控制诊断的敏感性-特异性权衡。这在临床中至关重要:急诊分诊需高敏感性避免漏诊,而确认性解读则强调高特异性以减少不必要的干预。单一固定报告无法适应这些场景,也难以通过广受认可的ROC验证用于监管审批。我们提出RadFusion框架,赋予报告生成阈值可控能力。方法将多标签分类器(输出各疾病置信度)与基于VQA的报告生成器融合,再由大模型重写报告,使其诊断结论符合指定阈值下的分类器判断,同时保持描述基于生成器内容。在MIMIC-CXR数据集上,RadFusion的性能严格遵循分类器的ROC曲线:调整阈值并映射报告回类别,可复现分类器已验证的ROC表现。这种一致性使生成报告可通过ROC分析进行量化评估,增强监管审批可信度,并支持根据临床情境选择最优工作点。此外,双模型融合提升了诊断准确性:在匹配特异性下敏感性提升6.9%,在匹配敏感性下特异性提升20.7%。结果表明,RadFusion使报告生成具备临床可适配性、可量化验证性和更高诊断可靠性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Automated radiology report generation is advancing rapidly in response to the shortage of radiologists, yet unlike a perception model, existing generation models offer no control over the sensitivity-specificity trade-off of their diagnostic content. Such control is essential because clinical scenarios diverge: emergency triage prioritizes sensitivity to reduce missed findings, whereas confirmatory interpretation emphasizes specificity to limit unnecessary interventions. A single fixed report can neither adapt to these scenarios nor support the ROC-based validation widely expected for regulatory clearance. We introduce RadFusion, a framework that equips report generation with threshold controllability. Our method fuses a multi-label classifier, which provides per-disease confidence scores, with a VQA-based report generator, which describes medical findings in detail; an LLM then rewrites the report so that its stated diagnoses follow the classifier's decisions at the selected threshold while staying grounded in the generator's descriptions. On MIMIC-CXR, the performance of RadFusion conforms to the classifier's ROC curve: sweeping the threshold and mapping the reports back to class labels reproduces the classifier's validated ROC performance. This conformance makes generated reports quantitatively evaluable through ROC analysis, strengthening the case for regulatory clearance, and enables operating-point selection that matches report behavior to clinical context. Moreover, combining the two model types improves diagnostic accuracy over uncontrolled generation: sensitivity increases by 6.9% at matched specificity, and specificity by 20.7% at matched sensitivity. These results show that RadFusion makes report generation clinically adaptable, quantitatively verifiable, and diagnostically more reliable.

报告生成医学AI阈值控制放射科

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