Summary of An X-ray Is Worth 15 Features: Sparse Autoencoders For Interpretable Radiology Report Generation, by Ahmed Abdulaal et al.
An X-Ray Is Worth 15 Features: Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretable Radiology Report Generation
by Ahmed Abdulaal, Hugo Fry, Nina Montaña-Brown, Ayodeji Ijishakin, Jack Gao, Stephanie Hyland, Daniel C. Alexander, Daniel C. Castro
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to automating radiology report generation is introduced, leveraging sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to decompose latent representations from pre-trained vision transformers into human-interpretable features. The hybrid architecture combines state-of-the-art SAE advancements with off-the-shelf language models to generate accurate and interpretable reports without requiring expensive fine-tuning. This approach, called SAE-Rad, achieves competitive radiology-specific metrics on the MIMIC-CXR dataset while using significantly fewer computational resources for training. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Radiologists are working harder than ever to keep up with medical imaging demands. One way to help them is by using artificial intelligence to generate reports automatically. This task is tricky because it requires understanding both what’s in an image (like a doctor would) and how to write a clear report about that image. Current AI models can struggle with this because they don’t understand why they’re making certain predictions. Our new approach, SAE-Rad, helps solve this problem by breaking down the complex process of analyzing images into smaller, easier-to-understand parts. This makes it possible for doctors to review and trust the reports generated by our system. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning
