Spatio-Temporal and Clinical Conditioning for Fine-Grained Radiology Report Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02024v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:54:02 GMT
• Title: Spatio-Temporal and Clinical Conditioning for Fine-Grained Radiology Report Retrieval
• Abstract summary: We introduce STAR3, a multimodal, attentive radiology report generation framework.<n>Our framework retrieves semantically relevant report sentences conditioned on both current clinical context and changes observed between prior and current examinations.<n>Experiments on the MIMIC-XR dataset demonstrate that STAR3 outperforms current retrieval-based approaches on retrieval, NLP and clinical metrics.
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• Abstract: Radiology is vital to modern healthcare, but rising imaging demand and persistent workforce shortages strain reporting capacity and clinical workflows. Automated radiology report generation has the potential to support radiologists and help alleviate this burden; however, existing retrieval-based methods remain rigid, lack explicit anatomical grounding, and do not account for longitudinal disease progression or available clinical context. In this work, we introduce STAR3, a multimodal, spatio-temporal, attentive retrieval framework for radiology report generation that aligns region-level anatomical information with clinical indications and longitudinal changes across chest X-ray studies. Our framework employs an object detector to identify anatomically meaningful regions and retrieves semantically relevant report sentences conditioned on both current clinical context and changes observed between prior and current examinations. This design enables anatomically and temporally grounded report generation that better reflects clinical reporting practice. Experiments on the MIMIC-CXR dataset demonstrate that STAR3 outperforms current retrieval-based approaches on retrieval, NLP and clinical metrics, highlighting the value of conditioning retrieval anatomically, temporally and clinically for advancing automated radiology report generation.

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