Radiology Report Generation with Layer-Wise Anatomical Attention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16841v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:17:57 GMT
• Title: Radiology Report Generation with Layer-Wise Anatomical Attention
• Authors: Emmanuel D. Muñiz-De-León, Jorge A. Rosales-de-Golferichs, Ana S. Muñoz-Rodríguez, Alejandro I. Trejo-Castro, Eduardo de Avila-Armenta, Antonio Martínez-Torteya,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a compact image-to-text architecture that generates Findings section of chest X-ray reports.<n>The model combines a frozen Self-Distillation with No Labels v3 (DINOv3) Vision Transformer (ViT) encoder with a Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) decoder.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automatic radiology report generation is a promising application of multimodal deep learning, aiming to reduce reporting workload and improve consistency. However, current state-of-the-art (SOTA) systems - such as Multimodal AI for Radiology Applications (MAIRA-2) and Medical Pathways Language Model-Multimodal (MedPaLM-M) - depend on large-scale multimodal training, clinical metadata, and multiple imaging views, making them resource-intensive and inaccessible for most settings. We introduce a compact image-to-text architecture that generates the Findings section of chest X-ray reports from a single frontal image. The model combines a frozen Self-Distillation with No Labels v3 (DINOv3) Vision Transformer (ViT) encoder with a Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) decoder enhanced by layer-wise anatomical attention. This mechanism integrates lung and heart segmentation masks through hierarchical Gaussian smoothing, biasing attention toward clinically relevant regions without adding trainable parameters. Evaluated on the official Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-Chest X-ray (MIMIC-CXR) dataset using Chest Radiograph Expert (CheXpert) and Radiology Graph (RadGraph) metrics, our approach achieved substantial gains: CheXpert Macro-F1 for five key pathologies increased by 168% (0.083 -> 0.238) and Micro-F1 by 146% (0.137 -> 0.337), while broader performance across 14 observations improved by 86% (0.170 -> 0.316). Structural coherence also improved, with RadGraph F1 rising by 9.7%. Despite its small size and purely image-conditioned design, the model demonstrates that decoder-level anatomical guidance improves spatial grounding and enhances coherence in clinically relevant regions. The source code is publicly available at: https://github.com/devMuniz02/UDEM-CXR-Reporting-Thesis-2025.

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