CSTRL: Context-Driven Sequential Transfer Learning for Abstractive Radiology Report Summarization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05750v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:32:11 GMT
• Title: CSTRL: Context-Driven Sequential Transfer Learning for Abstractive Radiology Report Summarization
• Authors: Mst. Fahmida Sultana Naznin, Adnan Ibney Faruq, Mostafa Rifat Tazwar, Md Jobayer, Md. Mehedi Hasan Shawon, Md Rakibul Hasan,
• Abstract summary: A radiology report comprises several sections, including the Findings and Impression of the diagnosis.<n>Pretrained models that excel in common abstractive summarization problems encounter challenges when applied to specialized medical domains.<n>We introduce a sequential transfer learning that ensures key content extraction and coherent summarization.
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• Abstract: A radiology report comprises several sections, including the Findings and Impression of the diagnosis. Automatically generating the Impression from the Findings is crucial for reducing radiologists' workload and improving diagnostic accuracy. Pretrained models that excel in common abstractive summarization problems encounter challenges when applied to specialized medical domains largely due to the complex terminology and the necessity for accurate clinical context. Such tasks in medical domains demand extracting core information, avoiding context shifts, and maintaining proper flow. Misuse of medical terms can lead to drastic clinical errors. To address these issues, we introduce a sequential transfer learning that ensures key content extraction and coherent summarization. Sequential transfer learning often faces challenges like initial parameter decay and knowledge loss, which we resolve with the Fisher matrix regularization. Using MIMIC-CXR and Open-I datasets, our model, CSTRL-Context-driven Sequential TRansfer Learning-achieved state-of-the-art performance, showing 56.2% improvement in BLEU-1, 40.5% in BLEU-2, 84.3% in BLEU-3, 28.9% in ROUGE-1, 41.0% in ROUGE-2 and 26.5% in ROGUE-3 score over benchmark studies. We also analyze factual consistency scores while preserving the medical context. Our code is publicly available at TBA.

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