RADAR: Enhancing Radiology Report Generation with Supplementary Knowledge Injection

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Main Authors: Hou, Wenjun, Cheng, Yi, Xu, Kaishuai, Li, Heng, Hu, Yan, Li, Wenjie, Liu, Jiang
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author Hou, Wenjun
Cheng, Yi
Xu, Kaishuai
Li, Heng
Hu, Yan
Li, Wenjie
Liu, Jiang
author_facet Hou, Wenjun
Cheng, Yi
Xu, Kaishuai
Li, Heng
Hu, Yan
Li, Wenjie
Liu, Jiang
contents Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various domains, including radiology report generation. Previous approaches have attempted to utilize multimodal LLMs for this task, enhancing their performance through the integration of domain-specific knowledge retrieval. However, these approaches often overlook the knowledge already embedded within the LLMs, leading to redundant information integration. To address this limitation, we propose Radar, a framework for enhancing radiology report generation with supplementary knowledge injection. Radar improves report generation by systematically leveraging both the internal knowledge of an LLM and externally retrieved information. Specifically, it first extracts the model's acquired knowledge that aligns with expert image-based classification outputs. It then retrieves relevant supplementary knowledge to further enrich this information. Finally, by aggregating both sources, Radar generates more accurate and informative radiology reports. Extensive experiments on MIMIC-CXR, CheXpert-Plus, and IU X-ray demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art LLMs in both language quality and clinical accuracy.
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spellingShingle RADAR: Enhancing Radiology Report Generation with Supplementary Knowledge Injection
Hou, Wenjun
Cheng, Yi
Xu, Kaishuai
Li, Heng
Hu, Yan
Li, Wenjie
Liu, Jiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various domains, including radiology report generation. Previous approaches have attempted to utilize multimodal LLMs for this task, enhancing their performance through the integration of domain-specific knowledge retrieval. However, these approaches often overlook the knowledge already embedded within the LLMs, leading to redundant information integration. To address this limitation, we propose Radar, a framework for enhancing radiology report generation with supplementary knowledge injection. Radar improves report generation by systematically leveraging both the internal knowledge of an LLM and externally retrieved information. Specifically, it first extracts the model's acquired knowledge that aligns with expert image-based classification outputs. It then retrieves relevant supplementary knowledge to further enrich this information. Finally, by aggregating both sources, Radar generates more accurate and informative radiology reports. Extensive experiments on MIMIC-CXR, CheXpert-Plus, and IU X-ray demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art LLMs in both language quality and clinical accuracy.
title RADAR: Enhancing Radiology Report Generation with Supplementary Knowledge Injection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14318