On the Importance of Image Encoding in Automated Chest X-Ray Report Generation

BMVC, 2022

The reference code of On the Importance of Image Encoding in Automated Chest X-Ray Report Generation.

The original code taken from Improving Factual Completeness and Consistency of Image-to-text Radiology Report Generation.

Changes to original code:

• custom_models.py - contains various image encoders
• image.py - modified code of original file to accomodate various encoders

Running the code

The original repository has very good instructions for running the code. We recommend following those. To choose the encoders please select corresponding models within the custom_models.py file. New encoders can also be easily added.

Licence

See LICENSE and clinicgen/external/LICENSE_bleu-cider-rouge-spice for details.