Cited by 31Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsCOVID-19 diagnosis using AIRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

PneumoLLM: Harnessing the power of large language model for pneumoconiosis diagnosis

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Song, Meiyue, Wang, Jiarui, Yu, Zhihua, Wang, Jiaxin, Yang, Le, Lu, Yuting, Li, Baicun, Wang, Xue +8 more·2024·Medical Image Analysis

Abstract

The conventional pretraining-and-finetuning paradigm, while effective for common diseases with ample data, faces challenges in diagnosing data-scarce occupational diseases like pneumoconiosis. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have exhibits unprecedented ability when conducting multiple tasks in dialogue, bringing opportunities to diagnosis. A common strategy might involve using adapter layers for vision-language alignment and diagnosis in a dialogic manner. Yet, this approach often requires optimization of extensive learnable parameters in the text branch and the dialogue head, potentially diminishing the LLMs' efficacy, especially with limited training data. In our work, we innovate by eliminating the text branch and substituting the dialogue head with a classification head. This approach presents a more effective method for harnessing LLMs in diagnosis with fewer learnable parameters. Furthermore, to balance the retention of detailed image information with progression towards accurate diagnosis, we introduce the contextual multi-token engine. This engine is specialized in adaptively generating diagnostic tokens. Additionally, we propose the information emitter module, which unidirectionally emits information from image tokens to diagnosis tokens. Comprehensive experiments validate the superiority of our methods.

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Authors
Song, M., Wang, J., Yu, Z., Wang, J., Yang, L., Lu, Y., Li, B., Wang, X., Wang, X., Huang, Q., Li, Z., Kanellakis, N. I., Liu, J., Wang, J., Wang, B., & Yang, J.
Affiliations
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
  • Northwestern Polytechnical University (CN)
  • Harbin Medical University (CN)
  • Tongji University (CN)
  • Churchill Hospital (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Wang, Jiarui
  • Wang, Xue
  • Wang, Xiaoxu
  • Liu, Jiangfeng
  • Wang, Jing
  • Wang, Binglu
Venue
Medical Image Analysis
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2024-10
Volume
97
Pages
103248
ISSN
1361-8415 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4399864536
Cited by
31
References
84
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 1
FWCI
4.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Medical Image Analysis (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Keywords
large language models, vision-language models, occupational diseases, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, vision-language alignment, chest CT
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Humans, Pneumoconiosis

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