EMRRG: Efficient Fine-Tuning Pre-trained X-ray Mamba Networks for Radiology Report Generation

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Main Authors: Zhang, Mingzheng, Gao, Jinfeng, Xu, Dan, Yu, Jiangrui, Qiao, Yuhan, Chen, Lan, Tang, Jin, Wang, Xiao
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author Zhang, Mingzheng
Gao, Jinfeng
Xu, Dan
Yu, Jiangrui
Qiao, Yuhan
Chen, Lan
Tang, Jin
Wang, Xiao
author_facet Zhang, Mingzheng
Gao, Jinfeng
Xu, Dan
Yu, Jiangrui
Qiao, Yuhan
Chen, Lan
Tang, Jin
Wang, Xiao
contents X-ray image-based medical report generation (MRG) is a pivotal area in artificial intelligence that can significantly reduce diagnostic burdens for clinicians and patient wait times. Existing MRG models predominantly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve report generation, with limited exploration of pre-trained vision foundation models or advanced fine-tuning techniques. Mainstream frameworks either avoid fine-tuning or utilize simplistic methods like LoRA, often neglecting the potential of enhancing cross-attention mechanisms. Additionally, while Transformer-based models dominate vision-language tasks, non-Transformer architectures, such as the Mamba network, remain underexplored for medical report generation, presenting a promising avenue for future research. In this paper, we propose EMRRG, a novel X-ray report generation framework that fine-tunes pre-trained Mamba networks using parameter-efficient methods. Specifically, X-ray images are divided into patches, tokenized, and processed by an SSM-based vision backbone for feature extraction, with Partial LoRA yielding optimal performance. An LLM with a hybrid decoder generates the medical report, enabling end-to-end training and achieving strong results on benchmark datasets. Extensive experiments on three widely used benchmark datasets fully validated the effectiveness of our proposed strategies for the X-ray MRG. The source code of this paper will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Medical_Image_Analysis.
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spellingShingle EMRRG: Efficient Fine-Tuning Pre-trained X-ray Mamba Networks for Radiology Report Generation
Zhang, Mingzheng
Gao, Jinfeng
Xu, Dan
Yu, Jiangrui
Qiao, Yuhan
Chen, Lan
Tang, Jin
Wang, Xiao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
X-ray image-based medical report generation (MRG) is a pivotal area in artificial intelligence that can significantly reduce diagnostic burdens for clinicians and patient wait times. Existing MRG models predominantly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve report generation, with limited exploration of pre-trained vision foundation models or advanced fine-tuning techniques. Mainstream frameworks either avoid fine-tuning or utilize simplistic methods like LoRA, often neglecting the potential of enhancing cross-attention mechanisms. Additionally, while Transformer-based models dominate vision-language tasks, non-Transformer architectures, such as the Mamba network, remain underexplored for medical report generation, presenting a promising avenue for future research. In this paper, we propose EMRRG, a novel X-ray report generation framework that fine-tunes pre-trained Mamba networks using parameter-efficient methods. Specifically, X-ray images are divided into patches, tokenized, and processed by an SSM-based vision backbone for feature extraction, with Partial LoRA yielding optimal performance. An LLM with a hybrid decoder generates the medical report, enabling end-to-end training and achieving strong results on benchmark datasets. Extensive experiments on three widely used benchmark datasets fully validated the effectiveness of our proposed strategies for the X-ray MRG. The source code of this paper will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Medical_Image_Analysis.
title EMRRG: Efficient Fine-Tuning Pre-trained X-ray Mamba Networks for Radiology Report Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16776