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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2023

Evaluating progress in automatic chest X-ray radiology report generation.

Feiyang Yu, Mark Endo, Rayan Krishnan, Ian Pan, Andy Tsai, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Eduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes Fonseca, Henrique Min Ho Lee, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Andrew Y Ng and 3 more

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Feiyang YuDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Mark EndoDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Rayan KrishnanDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Ian PanDepartment of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Andy TsaiDepartment of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Eduardo Pontes ReisCardiothoracic Radiology Group, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, São Paulo 05652, Brazil.
Eduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes FonsecaCardiothoracic Radiology Group, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, São Paulo 05652, Brazil.
Henrique Min Ho LeeCardiothoracic Radiology Group, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, São Paulo 05652, Brazil.
Zahra Shakeri Hossein AbadDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.
Andrew Y NgDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Curtis P LanglotzAIMI Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304, USA.
Vasantha Kumar VenugopalCARPL.ai, New Delhi, Delhi 110016, India.
Pranav RajpurkarDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Funding

RADX TECH - CERES NANOSCIENCE INC NANOTRAP PARTICLE MANUFACTURING75N92020C00021 · NHLBI · CERES NANOSCIENCES, LLLP · PI DUNLAP, ROSS · 2021 to 2021
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NHLBI NIH HHS 75N92020C00008NHLBI NIH HHS 75N92020C00021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) models for automatic generation of narrative radiology reports from images have the potential to enhance efficiency and reduce the workload of radiologists. However, evaluating the correctness of these reports requires metrics that can capture clinically pertinent differences. In this study, we investigate the alignment between automated metrics and radiologists' scoring of errors in report generation. We address the limitations of existing metrics by proposing new metrics, RadGraph F1 and RadCliQ, which demonstrate stronger correlation with radiologists' evaluations. In addition, we analyze the failure modes of the metrics to understand their limitations and provide guidance for metric selection and interpretation. This study establishes RadGraph F1 and RadCliQ as meaningful metrics for guiding future research in radiology report generation.

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alignment with radiologistsautomatic metricschest X-ray radiology report generation

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PMID37720336
PMCPMC10499844

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