Weakly Supervised Contrastive Learning for Chest X-Ray Report Generation (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Radiology report generation aims at generating descriptive text from radiology images automatically. |
| Approach: | They propose a weakly supervised contrastive loss method that generates descriptive text from radiology images automatically. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms previous work on correctness and text generation metrics for two public benchmarks. |
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