Cited by 94Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI

Clinical-BERT: Vision-Language Pre-training for Radiograph Diagnosis and Reports Generation

Open access
Yan, Bin, Pei, Mingtao·2022·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

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.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1609/aaai.v36i3.20204

Cites

58 of 58 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Chen, Z.; Shen, Y.; Song, Y.; and Wan, X. 2021. Crossmodal Memory Networks for Radiology Report Generation. In ACL/IJCNLP .
  2. Murahari, V. S.; Batra, D.; Parikh, D.; and Das, A. 2020. Large-scale Pretraining for Visual Dialog: A Simple Stateof-the-Art Baseline. In ECCV .
  3. Zhuge, M.; Gao, D.; Fan, D.-P.; Jin, L.; Chen, B.; Zhou, H.; Qiu, M.; and Shao, L. 2021. Kaleido-BERT: VisionLanguage Pre-training on Fashion Domain. arXiv preprint , arXiv:2103.16110. · arXiv

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Yan, B., & Pei, M.
Affiliations
Beijing Institute of Technology (CN)
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
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

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review