FITA: Fine-grained Image-Text Aligner for Radiology Report Generation

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Hauptverfasser: Yang, Honglong, Tang, Hui, Li, Xiaomeng
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author Yang, Honglong
Tang, Hui
Li, Xiaomeng
author_facet Yang, Honglong
Tang, Hui
Li, Xiaomeng
contents Radiology report generation aims to automatically generate detailed and coherent descriptive reports alongside radiology images. Previous work mainly focused on refining fine-grained image features or leveraging external knowledge. However, the precise alignment of fine-grained image features with corresponding text descriptions has not been considered. This paper presents a novel method called Fine-grained Image-Text Aligner (FITA) to construct fine-grained alignment for image and text features. It has three novel designs: Image Feature Refiner (IFR), Text Feature Refiner (TFR) and Contrastive Aligner (CA). IFR and TFR aim to learn fine-grained image and text features, respectively. We achieve this by leveraging saliency maps to effectively fuse symptoms with corresponding abnormal visual regions, and by utilizing a meticulously constructed triplet set for training. Finally, CA module aligns fine-grained image and text features using contrastive loss for precise alignment. Results show that our method surpasses existing methods on the widely used benchmark
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spellingShingle FITA: Fine-grained Image-Text Aligner for Radiology Report Generation
Yang, Honglong
Tang, Hui
Li, Xiaomeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Radiology report generation aims to automatically generate detailed and coherent descriptive reports alongside radiology images. Previous work mainly focused on refining fine-grained image features or leveraging external knowledge. However, the precise alignment of fine-grained image features with corresponding text descriptions has not been considered. This paper presents a novel method called Fine-grained Image-Text Aligner (FITA) to construct fine-grained alignment for image and text features. It has three novel designs: Image Feature Refiner (IFR), Text Feature Refiner (TFR) and Contrastive Aligner (CA). IFR and TFR aim to learn fine-grained image and text features, respectively. We achieve this by leveraging saliency maps to effectively fuse symptoms with corresponding abnormal visual regions, and by utilizing a meticulously constructed triplet set for training. Finally, CA module aligns fine-grained image and text features using contrastive loss for precise alignment. Results show that our method surpasses existing methods on the widely used benchmark
title FITA: Fine-grained Image-Text Aligner for Radiology Report Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00962