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A Clinically-Grounded Two-Stage Framework for Renal CT Report Generation

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Author

Renjie Liang, Zhengkang Fan, Jinqian Pan, Chenkun Sun, Bruce Daniel Steinberg, Russell Terry, Jie Xu

Outline

Renal cancer is a common malignancy, and computed tomography (CT) is crucial for early detection, staging, and treatment planning. This study proposes a clinically-based, two-stage framework that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically generate renal CT reports. In the first stage, a multi-task learning model is used to detect structured clinical features from 2D images. In the second stage, a vision-language model is used to generate a free-text report based on the image and detected features. Experimental results show that incorporating detected features improves report quality and clinical accuracy, achieving an average area under the curve (AUC) of 0.75 and a METEOR score of 0.33 for key image features.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present a clinically sound approach by linking structured feature detection with conditional report generation.
Improves the interpretability and clinical fidelity of reports.
Emphasize the value of domain-specific evaluation metrics for medical AI development.
Limitations:
The specific Limitations is not specified in the paper (it cannot be determined from the paper summary alone).
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