STRIVE通过多智能体协作实现放射科报告的时序推理与验证,提升诊断一致性。
STRIVE: Multi-Agent Structured Temporal Reasoning with Integrated Verification for Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation

- 拆分诊断、属性与变化三个智能体,生成可追溯的中间证据。
- 在Longitudinal-MIMIC上将时序一致性指标(LCC)提升超2倍。
- 支持双阶段验证,适合临床辅助决策系统研发者参考。
纵向放射科报告生成(LRRG)需要识别当前发现及其相对于前次检查的变化。现有方法将诊断、属性估计、时序比较和语言生成联合建模于隐式表征中,导致任务干扰、决策依据不透明且错误难以追踪。同时,进展状态被当作独立标签处理,忽略了其有序性,使遗漏变化与方向反转等价。本文提出STRIVE:一种基于多智能体结构化时序推理与集成验证的纵向放射科报告生成方法。该方法将临床推理分解为专门的诊断、属性与时序变化智能体,输出显式中间证据。其中,时序变化智能体采用进展感知的GRPO(Progression-Aware GRPO)进行后训练,该可验证的形状奖励对方向保持错误给予部分分数,而对方向反转评分最低。STRIVE在两个阶段进行验证:确定性一致性门在报告生成前整合各智能体输出,验证智能体则检查生成报告是否由聚合的临床证据支持。在Longitudinal-MIMIC数据集上,STRIVE在近期方法中达到最优临床效果,且将时序一致性指标(LCC)超过最强基线两倍以上。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Longitudinal radiology report generation (LRRG) requires identifying both current findings and their changes relative to a prior study. Existing methods jointly model diagnosis, attribute estimation, temporal comparison, and language generation within implicit representations, which can cause task interference, obscure the evidence underlying each decision, and limit error traceability. They also model progression states as independent labels, ignoring their ordered structure and thus treating missed changes and direction reversals equally. We present STRIVE, Multi-Agent Structured Temporal Reasoning with Integrated Verification for LRRG, which decomposes clinical reasoning into specialized Diagnosis, Attribute, and Temporal Change Agents that produce explicit intermediate evidence. In particular, the Temporal Change Agent is further post-trained using Progression-Aware GRPO, a verifiable, shaped reward that assigns partial credit to direction-preserving errors while scoring direction reversals lowest. STRIVE performs verification at two stages: a deterministic Consistency Gate reconciles the agent outputs before report generation, and a Validation Agent checks whether the generated report is supported by the aggregated clinical evidence. On Longitudinal-MIMIC, STRIVE attains the best clinical efficacy among recent methods and more than doubles Longitudinal Change Concordance (LCC), a measure of temporal agreement with the reference report, over the strongest baseline.
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