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ArticleScientific reports2025

A vision attention driven Language framework for medical report generation.

Merve Varol Arısoy, Ayhan Arısoy, İlhan Uysal

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Merve Varol ArısoyBucak Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Information Systems Engineering Department, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey. mvarisoy@mehmetakif.edu.tr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2085-1964
Ayhan ArısoyBucak Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Information Systems Engineering Department, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6754-932X
İlhan UysalInformation Systems and Technologies. Depart, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Bucak Zeliha Tolunay School of Applied Technology and Business, Burdur, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6091-9110

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study introduces the Medical Vision Attention Generation (MedVAG) model, a novel framework designed to facilitate the automated generation of medical reports. MedVAG integrates Vision Transformer (ViT)-based visual feature extraction and GPT-2 language modeling, enhanced by graph-based feature fusion and multiple attention mechanisms (co-attention, cross-attention, memory-guided attention), to ensure semantic coherence and diagnostic accuracy. Evaluated on IU X-Ray and COV-CTR datasets, the model achieved state-of-the-art performance across natural language generation metrics (BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE, CIDEr) and clinical effectiveness measures. Ablation studies highlighted the critical role of attention mechanisms and feature fusion in aligning visual and textual features. MedVAG demonstrates strong potential as an assistive technology, aiming to support radiologists by reducing workload and enhancing diagnostic accuracy.

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AttentionNatural Language ProcessingHumansClinical taggingMedical report generationMemory-Guided attentionMulti-view Graph-based feature fusionRadiology reportsRetrieval augmentationVision transformer

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PMCPMC11953376

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