HC-LLM: Historical-Constrained Large Language Models for Radiology Report Generation

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Main Authors: Liu, Tengfei, Wang, Jiapu, Hu, Yongli, Li, Mingjie, Yi, Junfei, Chang, Xiaojun, Gao, Junbin, Yin, Baocai
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author Liu, Tengfei
Wang, Jiapu
Hu, Yongli
Li, Mingjie
Yi, Junfei
Chang, Xiaojun
Gao, Junbin
Yin, Baocai
author_facet Liu, Tengfei
Wang, Jiapu
Hu, Yongli
Li, Mingjie
Yi, Junfei
Chang, Xiaojun
Gao, Junbin
Yin, Baocai
contents Radiology report generation (RRG) models typically focus on individual exams, often overlooking the integration of historical visual or textual data, which is crucial for patient follow-ups. Traditional methods usually struggle with long sequence dependencies when incorporating historical information, but large language models (LLMs) excel at in-context learning, making them well-suited for analyzing longitudinal medical data. In light of this, we propose a novel Historical-Constrained Large Language Models (HC-LLM) framework for RRG, empowering LLMs with longitudinal report generation capabilities by constraining the consistency and differences between longitudinal images and their corresponding reports. Specifically, our approach extracts both time-shared and time-specific features from longitudinal chest X-rays and diagnostic reports to capture disease progression. Then, we ensure consistent representation by applying intra-modality similarity constraints and aligning various features across modalities with multimodal contrastive and structural constraints. These combined constraints effectively guide the LLMs in generating diagnostic reports that accurately reflect the progression of the disease, achieving state-of-the-art results on the Longitudinal-MIMIC dataset. Notably, our approach performs well even without historical data during testing and can be easily adapted to other multimodal large models, enhancing its versatility.
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spellingShingle HC-LLM: Historical-Constrained Large Language Models for Radiology Report Generation
Liu, Tengfei
Wang, Jiapu
Hu, Yongli
Li, Mingjie
Yi, Junfei
Chang, Xiaojun
Gao, Junbin
Yin, Baocai
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Radiology report generation (RRG) models typically focus on individual exams, often overlooking the integration of historical visual or textual data, which is crucial for patient follow-ups. Traditional methods usually struggle with long sequence dependencies when incorporating historical information, but large language models (LLMs) excel at in-context learning, making them well-suited for analyzing longitudinal medical data. In light of this, we propose a novel Historical-Constrained Large Language Models (HC-LLM) framework for RRG, empowering LLMs with longitudinal report generation capabilities by constraining the consistency and differences between longitudinal images and their corresponding reports. Specifically, our approach extracts both time-shared and time-specific features from longitudinal chest X-rays and diagnostic reports to capture disease progression. Then, we ensure consistent representation by applying intra-modality similarity constraints and aligning various features across modalities with multimodal contrastive and structural constraints. These combined constraints effectively guide the LLMs in generating diagnostic reports that accurately reflect the progression of the disease, achieving state-of-the-art results on the Longitudinal-MIMIC dataset. Notably, our approach performs well even without historical data during testing and can be easily adapted to other multimodal large models, enhancing its versatility.
title HC-LLM: Historical-Constrained Large Language Models for Radiology Report Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11070