Bridging Vision and Language: Optimal Transport-Driven Radiology Report Generation via LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03908v1
• Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 05:48:48 GMT
• Title: Bridging Vision and Language: Optimal Transport-Driven Radiology Report Generation via LLMs
• Authors: Haifeng Zhao, Yufei Zhang, Leilei Ma, Shuo Xu, Dengdi Sun,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains.<n>We propose Optimal Transport-Driven Radiology Report Generation (OTDRG) to align image features with disease labels extracted from reports.<n>OTDRG achieves state-of-the-art performance in both natural language generation (NLG) and clinical efficacy (CE) metrics.
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• Abstract: Radiology report generation represents a significant application within medical AI, and has achieved impressive results. Concurrently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains. However, empirical validation indicates that general LLMs tend to focus more on linguistic fluency rather than clinical effectiveness, and lack the ability to effectively capture the relationship between X-ray images and their corresponding texts, thus resulting in poor clinical practicability. To address these challenges, we propose Optimal Transport-Driven Radiology Report Generation (OTDRG), a novel framework that leverages Optimal Transport (OT) to align image features with disease labels extracted from reports, effectively bridging the cross-modal gap. The core component of OTDRG is Alignment \& Fine-Tuning, where OT utilizes results from the encoding of label features and image visual features to minimize cross-modal distances, then integrating image and text features for LLMs fine-tuning. Additionally, we design a novel disease prediction module to predict disease labels contained in X-ray images during validation and testing. Evaluated on the MIMIC-CXR and IU X-Ray datasets, OTDRG achieves state-of-the-art performance in both natural language generation (NLG) and clinical efficacy (CE) metrics, delivering reports that are not only linguistically coherent but also clinically accurate.

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