Clinical-BERT: Vision-Language Pre-training for Radiograph Diagnosis and Reports Generation
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In this paper, we propose a vision-language pre-training model, Clinical-BERT, for the medical domain, and devise three domain-specific tasks: Clinical Diagnosis (CD), Masked MeSH Modeling (MMM), Image-MeSH Matching (IMM), together with one general pre-training task: Masked Language Modeling (MLM), to pre-train the model. The CD task helps the model to learn medical domain knowledge by predicting disease from radiographs. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) words are important semantic components in radiograph reports, and the MMM task helps the model focus on the prediction of MeSH words. The IMM task helps the model learn the alignment of MeSH words with radiographs by matching scores obtained by a two-level sparse attention: region sparse attention and word sparse attention. Region sparse attention generates corresponding visual features for each word, and word sparse attention enhances the contribution of images-MeSH matching to the matching scores. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to learn domain knowledge during pre-training for the medical domain. We evaluate the pre-training model on Radiograph Diagnosis and Reports Generation tasks across four challenging datasets: MIMIC-CXR, IU X-Ray, COV-CTR, and NIH, and achieve state-of-the-art results for all the tasks, which demonstrates the effectiveness of our pre-training model.
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Vision language models can perform joint embedding of radiographs and clinical notes, enabling effective learning of features from different modes.
“With the use of vision language models, it is possible to perform joint embedding of radiographs and clinical notes, thus enabling them to learn the features of different modes effectively48.”
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- Authors
- Yan, B., & Pei, M.
- Affiliations
- Beijing Institute of Technology (CN)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Published
- 2022-06-28
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 2982-2990
- ISSN
- 2159-5399 (ISSN-L)
- 2374-3468
- OpenAlex
- W4283821415
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 7.25
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Keywords
- vision-language pre-training, radiology report generation, Medical Subject Headings, masked language modeling, chest X-ray classification
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