Towards Visual Dialog for Radiology

Olga Kovaleva, Chaitanya Shivade, Satyananda Kashyap, Karina Kanjaria, Joy Wu, Deddeh Ballah, Adam Coy, Alexandros Karargyris, Yufan Guo, David Beymer Beymer, Anna Rumshisky, Vandana Mukherjee Mukherjee


Abstract
Current research in machine learning for radiology is focused mostly on images. There exists limited work in investigating intelligent interactive systems for radiology. To address this limitation, we introduce a realistic and information-rich task of Visual Dialog in radiology, specific to chest X-ray images. Using MIMIC-CXR, an openly available database of chest X-ray images, we construct both a synthetic and a real-world dataset and provide baseline scores achieved by state-of-the-art models. We show that incorporating medical history of the patient leads to better performance in answering questions as opposed to conventional visual question answering model which looks only at the image. While our experiments show promising results, they indicate that the task is extremely challenging with significant scope for improvement. We make both the datasets (synthetic and gold standard) and the associated code publicly available to the research community.
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2020.bionlp-1.6
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Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP
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SIGBIOMED
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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60–69
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.bionlp-1.6
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.bionlp-1.6
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Olga Kovaleva, Chaitanya Shivade, Satyananda Kashyap, Karina Kanjaria, Joy Wu, Deddeh Ballah, Adam Coy, Alexandros Karargyris, Yufan Guo, David Beymer Beymer, Anna Rumshisky, and Vandana Mukherjee Mukherjee. 2020. Towards Visual Dialog for Radiology. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, pages 60–69, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Visual Dialog for Radiology (Kovaleva et al., BioNLP 2020)
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