Anatomy-Grounded Weakly Supervised Prompt Tuning for Chest X-ray Latent Diffusion Models

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Main Authors: Vilouras, Konstantinos, Stogiannidis, Ilias, Yan, Junyu, O'Neil, Alison Q., Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
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author Vilouras, Konstantinos
Stogiannidis, Ilias
Yan, Junyu
O'Neil, Alison Q.
Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
author_facet Vilouras, Konstantinos
Stogiannidis, Ilias
Yan, Junyu
O'Neil, Alison Q.
Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
contents Latent Diffusion Models have shown remarkable results in text-guided image synthesis in recent years. In the domain of natural (RGB) images, recent works have shown that such models can be adapted to various vision-language downstream tasks with little to no supervision involved. On the contrary, text-to-image Latent Diffusion Models remain relatively underexplored in the field of medical imaging, primarily due to limited data availability (e.g., due to privacy concerns). In this work, focusing on the chest X-ray modality, we first demonstrate that a standard text-conditioned Latent Diffusion Model has not learned to align clinically relevant information in free-text radiology reports with the corresponding areas of the given scan. Then, to alleviate this issue, we propose a fine-tuning framework to improve multi-modal alignment in a pre-trained model such that it can be efficiently repurposed for downstream tasks such as phrase grounding. Our method sets a new state-of-the-art on a standard benchmark dataset (MS-CXR), while also exhibiting robust performance on out-of-distribution data (VinDr-CXR). Our code will be made publicly available.
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spellingShingle Anatomy-Grounded Weakly Supervised Prompt Tuning for Chest X-ray Latent Diffusion Models
Vilouras, Konstantinos
Stogiannidis, Ilias
Yan, Junyu
O'Neil, Alison Q.
Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Latent Diffusion Models have shown remarkable results in text-guided image synthesis in recent years. In the domain of natural (RGB) images, recent works have shown that such models can be adapted to various vision-language downstream tasks with little to no supervision involved. On the contrary, text-to-image Latent Diffusion Models remain relatively underexplored in the field of medical imaging, primarily due to limited data availability (e.g., due to privacy concerns). In this work, focusing on the chest X-ray modality, we first demonstrate that a standard text-conditioned Latent Diffusion Model has not learned to align clinically relevant information in free-text radiology reports with the corresponding areas of the given scan. Then, to alleviate this issue, we propose a fine-tuning framework to improve multi-modal alignment in a pre-trained model such that it can be efficiently repurposed for downstream tasks such as phrase grounding. Our method sets a new state-of-the-art on a standard benchmark dataset (MS-CXR), while also exhibiting robust performance on out-of-distribution data (VinDr-CXR). Our code will be made publicly available.
title Anatomy-Grounded Weakly Supervised Prompt Tuning for Chest X-ray Latent Diffusion Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10633