On the Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Reports (P18-1)

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Challenge: a complete medical imaging report contains multiple heterogeneous forms of information, including findings and tags . abnormal regions in medical images are difficult to identify and the reports are typically long, containing multiple sentences.
Approach: They propose a multi-task learning framework which predicts tags and generates paragraphs for abnormal regions in medical images.
Outcome: The proposed framework can generate long paragraphs on two publicly available datasets.

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