Pushing the Limits of Radiology with Joint Modeling of Visual and Textual Information (P18-3)
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| Challenge: | Recent research has focused on the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, but its adaption to the medical domain is not fully explored. |
| Approach: | They aim to develop machine learning models that can reason jointly on medical images and clinical text for advanced search, retrieval, annotation and description of medical images. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models can reason jointly on medical images and clinical text for advanced search, retrieval, annotation and description of medical images. |
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