Meta-Entity Driven Triplet Mining for Aligning Medical Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15929v2
• Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:26:34 GMT
• Title: Meta-Entity Driven Triplet Mining for Aligning Medical Vision-Language Models
• Authors: Saban Ozturk, Melih B. Yilmaz, Muti Kara, M. Talat Yavuz, Aykut Koç, Tolga Çukur,
• Abstract summary: Existing alignment methods prioritize separation between disease classes over segregation of fine-grained pathology attributes.<n>Here, we propose MedTrim, a novel method that enhances image-text alignment through multimodal triplet learning.<n>Our demonstrations indicate that MedTrim improves performance in downstream retrieval and classification tasks compared to state-of-the-art alignment methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Diagnostic imaging relies on interpreting both images and radiology reports, but the growing data volumes place significant pressure on medical experts, yielding increased errors and workflow backlogs. Medical vision-language models (med-VLMs) have emerged as a powerful framework to efficiently process multimodal imaging data, particularly in chest X-ray (CXR) evaluations, albeit their performance hinges on how well image and text representations are aligned. Existing alignment methods, predominantly based on contrastive learning, prioritize separation between disease classes over segregation of fine-grained pathology attributes like location, size or severity, leading to suboptimal representations. Here, we propose MedTrim (Meta-entity-driven Triplet mining), a novel method that enhances image-text alignment through multimodal triplet learning synergistically guided by disease class as well as adjectival and directional pathology descriptors. Unlike common alignment methods that separate broad disease classes, MedTrim leverages structured meta-entity information to preserve subtle but clinically significant intra-class variations. For this purpose, we first introduce an ontology-based entity recognition module that extracts pathology-specific meta-entities from CXR reports, as annotations on pathology attributes are rare in public datasets. For refined sample selection in triplet mining, we then introduce a novel score function that captures an aggregate measure of inter-sample similarity based on disease classes and adjectival/directional descriptors. Lastly, we introduce a multimodal triplet alignment objective for explicit within- and cross-modal alignment between samples sharing detailed pathology characteristics. Our demonstrations indicate that MedTrim improves performance in downstream retrieval and classification tasks compared to state-of-the-art alignment methods.

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