IP-CRR: Information Pursuit for Interpretable Classification of Chest Radiology Reports

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00191v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:20:05 GMT
• Title: IP-CRR: Information Pursuit for Interpretable Classification of Chest Radiology Reports
• Authors: Yuyan Ge, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan, Pablo Messina, René Vidal,
• Abstract summary: We propose an interpretable-by-design framework for classifying radiology reports.<n>The key idea is to extract a set of most informative queries from a large set of reports and use these queries and their corresponding answers to predict a diagnosis.<n>Experiments on the MIMIC-CXR dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The development of AI-based methods for analyzing radiology reports could lead to significant advances in medical diagnosis--from improving diagnostic accuracy to enhancing efficiency and reducing workload. However, the lack of interpretability in these methods has hindered their adoption in clinical settings. In this paper, we propose an interpretable-by-design framework for classifying radiology reports. The key idea is to extract a set of most informative queries from a large set of reports and use these queries and their corresponding answers to predict a diagnosis. Thus, the explanation for a prediction is, by construction, the set of selected queries and answers. We use the Information Pursuit framework to select informative queries, the Flan-T5 model to determine if facts are present in the report, and a classifier to predict the disease. Experiments on the MIMIC-CXR dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, highlighting its potential to enhance trust and usability in medical AI.

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