CXRMate-2: Structured Multimodal Temporal Embeddings and Tractable Reinforcement Learning for Clinically Acceptable Chest X-ray Radiology Report Generation
Chest X-ray (CXR) radiology report generation (RRG) models have shown rapid progress on automated metrics, yet their clinical utility remains uncertain due to limited qualitative evaluation by radiologists. We present CXRMate-2, a state-of-the-art CXR RRG model that enables tractable reinforcement learning (RL) through structured multimodal temporal embeddings and high-resolution visual feature compression, for efficient, unified conditioning of an LLM decoder on visual, textual, and temporal context from a study and its prior. This enables group relative policy optimisation (GRPO), where a proposed reward function is used to improve semantic alignment with radiologist reports. Across the...
| Authors | Aaron Nicolson, Elizabeth J. Cooper, Hwan-Jin Yoon et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 21 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 3 May 2026 |
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