Eyes on the Image: Gaze Supervised Multimodal Learning for Chest X-ray Diagnosis and Report Generation

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Main Authors: Riju, Tanjim Islam, Anwar, Shuchismita, Joy, Saman Sarker, Sadeque, Farig, Shatabda, Swakkhar
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author Riju, Tanjim Islam
Anwar, Shuchismita
Joy, Saman Sarker
Sadeque, Farig
Shatabda, Swakkhar
author_facet Riju, Tanjim Islam
Anwar, Shuchismita
Joy, Saman Sarker
Sadeque, Farig
Shatabda, Swakkhar
contents We propose a two-stage multimodal framework that enhances disease classification and region-aware radiology report generation from chest X-rays, leveraging the MIMIC-Eye dataset. In the first stage, we introduce a gaze-guided contrastive learning architecture for disease classification. It integrates visual features, clinical labels, bounding boxes, and radiologist eye-tracking signals and is equipped with a novel multi-term gaze-attention loss combining MSE, KL divergence, correlation, and center-of-mass alignment. Incorporating fixations improves F1 score from 0.597 to 0.631 (+5.70%) and AUC from 0.821 to 0.849 (+3.41%), while also improving precision and recall, highlighting the effectiveness of gaze-informed attention supervision. In the second stage, we present a modular report generation pipeline that extracts confidence-weighted diagnostic keywords, maps them to anatomical regions using a curated dictionary constructed from domain-specific priors, and generates region-aligned sentences via structured prompts. This pipeline improves report quality as measured by clinical keyword recall and ROUGE overlap. Our results demonstrate that integrating gaze data improves both classification performance and the interpretability of generated medical reports.
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spellingShingle Eyes on the Image: Gaze Supervised Multimodal Learning for Chest X-ray Diagnosis and Report Generation
Riju, Tanjim Islam
Anwar, Shuchismita
Joy, Saman Sarker
Sadeque, Farig
Shatabda, Swakkhar
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
We propose a two-stage multimodal framework that enhances disease classification and region-aware radiology report generation from chest X-rays, leveraging the MIMIC-Eye dataset. In the first stage, we introduce a gaze-guided contrastive learning architecture for disease classification. It integrates visual features, clinical labels, bounding boxes, and radiologist eye-tracking signals and is equipped with a novel multi-term gaze-attention loss combining MSE, KL divergence, correlation, and center-of-mass alignment. Incorporating fixations improves F1 score from 0.597 to 0.631 (+5.70%) and AUC from 0.821 to 0.849 (+3.41%), while also improving precision and recall, highlighting the effectiveness of gaze-informed attention supervision. In the second stage, we present a modular report generation pipeline that extracts confidence-weighted diagnostic keywords, maps them to anatomical regions using a curated dictionary constructed from domain-specific priors, and generates region-aligned sentences via structured prompts. This pipeline improves report quality as measured by clinical keyword recall and ROUGE overlap. Our results demonstrate that integrating gaze data improves both classification performance and the interpretability of generated medical reports.
title Eyes on the Image: Gaze Supervised Multimodal Learning for Chest X-ray Diagnosis and Report Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13068