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Local Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Recognition.
Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Utilizing the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training Model in Chest Radiography: Current Capabilities and Practical Guidance.Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology · 2026Review
- Medical Vision-Language Models: Existing Technologies, Clinical Applications and Future Directions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- US-ATHC: Unsupervised Multi-Class Glioma Segmentation via Adaptive Thresholding and Clustering.Biomedicines · 2026Article
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Abstract
The proliferation of Deep Learning (DL)-based methods for radiographic image analysis has created a great demand for expert-labeled radiology data. Recent self-supervised frameworks have alleviated the need for expert labeling by obtaining supervision from associated radiology reports. These frameworks, however, struggle to distinguish the subtle differences between different pathologies in medical images. Additionally, many of them do not provide interpretation between image regions and text, making it difficult for radiologists to assess model predictions. In this work, we propose Local Region Contrastive Learning (LRCLR), a flexible fine-tuning framework that adds layers for significant image region selection as well as cross-modality interaction. Our results on an external validation set of chest x-rays suggest that LRCLR identifies significant local image regions and provides meaningful interpretation against radiology text while improving zero-shot performance on several chest x-ray medical findings.
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