Toward Expanding the Scope of Radiology Report Summarization to Multiple Anatomies and Modalities

Zhihong Chen, Maya Varma, Xiang Wan, Curtis Langlotz, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck


Abstract
Radiology report summarization (RRS) is a growing area of research. Given the Findings section of a radiology report, the goal is to generate a summary (called an Impression section) that highlights the key observations and conclusions of the radiology study. However, RRS currently faces essential limitations. First, many prior studies conduct experiments on private datasets, preventing reproduction of results and fair comparisons across different systems and solutions. Second, most prior approaches are evaluated solely on chest X-rays. To address these limitations, we propose a dataset (MIMIC-RRS) involving three new modalities and seven new anatomies based on the MIMIC-III and MIMIC-CXR datasets. We then conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of models both within and across modality-anatomy pairs in MIMIC-RRS. In addition, we evaluate their clinical efficacy via RadGraph, a factual correctness metric.
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2023.acl-short.41
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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469–484
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.41
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10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.41
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Zhihong Chen, Maya Varma, Xiang Wan, Curtis Langlotz, and Jean-Benoit Delbrouck. 2023. Toward Expanding the Scope of Radiology Report Summarization to Multiple Anatomies and Modalities. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 469–484, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Toward Expanding the Scope of Radiology Report Summarization to Multiple Anatomies and Modalities (Chen et al., ACL 2023)
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