RECAP: Towards Precise Radiology Report Generation via Dynamic Disease Progression Reasoning (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have focused on producing concise observations while neglecting the precise attributes that determine the severity of diseases. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that generates precise radiology reports via dynamic disease progression reasoning by combining historical and spatiotemporal information. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on two publicly available datasets show the proposed model can generate precise and accurate radiology reports with dynamic disease progression reasoning. |
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