Summary of Green: Generative Radiology Report Evaluation and Error Notation, by Sophie Ostmeier et al.
GREEN: Generative Radiology Report Evaluation and Error Notation
by Sophie Ostmeier, Justin Xu, Zhihong Chen, Maya Varma, Louis Blankemeier, Christian Bluethgen, Arne Edward Michalson, Michael Moseley, Curtis Langlotz, Akshay S Chaudhari, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- 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 is proposed in this paper to evaluate radiology reports, focusing on factual correctness as it is crucial for accurate medical communication about medical images. The existing automatic evaluation metrics either overlook factual correctness or are limited in interpretability. To address these limitations, the authors introduce GREEN (Generative Radiology Report Evaluation and Error Notation), a radiology report generation metric that utilizes language models to identify and explain clinically significant errors in candidate reports both quantitatively and qualitatively. Compared to current metrics, GREEN offers a score aligned with expert preferences, human-interpretable explanations of clinically significant errors, enabling feedback loops with end-users, and a lightweight open-source method that reaches the performance of commercial counterparts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new way to check if medical reports are correct. Doctors need accurate communication about medical images, but current ways to measure this accuracy have problems. Existing metrics either don’t look at whether facts are correct or can’t be understood by humans. To fix these issues, the authors created GREEN, a tool that uses language models to find and explain important mistakes in medical reports. GREEN scores match what doctors prefer, provides explanations for errors, and is open-source. This approach outperforms current methods. |
