Anatomical Attention Alignment representation for Radiology Report Generation

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Quang Vinh, Nguyen, Minh Duc, Vo, Thanh Hoang Son, Yang, Hyung-Jeong, Kim, Soo-Hyung
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author Nguyen, Quang Vinh
Nguyen, Minh Duc
Vo, Thanh Hoang Son
Yang, Hyung-Jeong
Kim, Soo-Hyung
author_facet Nguyen, Quang Vinh
Nguyen, Minh Duc
Vo, Thanh Hoang Son
Yang, Hyung-Jeong
Kim, Soo-Hyung
contents Automated Radiology report generation (RRG) aims at producing detailed descriptions of medical images, reducing radiologists' workload and improving access to high-quality diagnostic services. Existing encoder-decoder models only rely on visual features extracted from raw input images, which can limit the understanding of spatial structures and semantic relationships, often resulting in suboptimal text generation. To address this, we propose Anatomical Attention Alignment Network (A3Net), a framework that enhance visual-textual understanding by constructing hyper-visual representations. Our approach integrates a knowledge dictionary of anatomical structures with patch-level visual features, enabling the model to effectively associate image regions with their corresponding anatomical entities. This structured representation improves semantic reasoning, interpretability, and cross-modal alignment, ultimately enhancing the accuracy and clinical relevance of generated reports. Experimental results on IU X-Ray and MIMIC-CXR datasets demonstrate that A3Net significantly improves both visual perception and text generation quality. Our code is available at \href{https://github.com/Vinh-AI/A3Net}{GitHub}.
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spellingShingle Anatomical Attention Alignment representation for Radiology Report Generation
Nguyen, Quang Vinh
Nguyen, Minh Duc
Vo, Thanh Hoang Son
Yang, Hyung-Jeong
Kim, Soo-Hyung
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Automated Radiology report generation (RRG) aims at producing detailed descriptions of medical images, reducing radiologists' workload and improving access to high-quality diagnostic services. Existing encoder-decoder models only rely on visual features extracted from raw input images, which can limit the understanding of spatial structures and semantic relationships, often resulting in suboptimal text generation. To address this, we propose Anatomical Attention Alignment Network (A3Net), a framework that enhance visual-textual understanding by constructing hyper-visual representations. Our approach integrates a knowledge dictionary of anatomical structures with patch-level visual features, enabling the model to effectively associate image regions with their corresponding anatomical entities. This structured representation improves semantic reasoning, interpretability, and cross-modal alignment, ultimately enhancing the accuracy and clinical relevance of generated reports. Experimental results on IU X-Ray and MIMIC-CXR datasets demonstrate that A3Net significantly improves both visual perception and text generation quality. Our code is available at \href{https://github.com/Vinh-AI/A3Net}{GitHub}.
title Anatomical Attention Alignment representation for Radiology Report Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07689