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Tim improves radiology reports by tracking disease changes over time

TIM: Temporal Decoupling with Iterative Mutual-Refinement Model for Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation

Abstract: Automatic radiology report generation (RRG) aims to translate medical images into diagnostic text, reducing radiologists' workload and standardizing clinical documentation. Nonetheless, existing approaches mainly focus on single-timepoint analysis and fail to capture temporal disease evolution across longitudinal examinations. While recent longitudinal RRG (LRRG) approaches incorporate historical data, they often combine images from different time points within a single representation space, leading to blurred semantics and inconsistent temporal reasoning. In this work, we propose a Temporal Decoupling with Iterative Mutual-Refinement Model (TIM), a two-stage framework that explicitly decouples spatial pathology from temporal progression and iteratively refines reports through mutual feedback. Stage I performs temporal-decoupled representation learning, separating temporal evolution patterns from disease-specific features and generating radiology reports for both prior and current studies. Stage II introduces a mutual report refinement mechanism that identifies diagnostic inconsistencies within prior reports and iteratively rectifies both prior and current reports through error-sensitive feedback. Experiments on the Longitudinal-MIMIC dataset demonstrate that TIM surpasses existing single-image and longitudinal baselines, achieving new state-of-the-art performance across both language and clinical metrics. Code is available at https://github.com/yihengd/TIM.

Mon 19 OctComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Doctors use images taken at different times to see how diseases change. Current computer programs create reports based on one image at a time and don’t track these changes well. The authors designed TIM, a two-step method that separates what is seen in each image from how diseases evolve over time. It produces better reports by correcting inconsistencies between past and current findings. Tests showed TIM works better than earlier methods on a public medical dataset.
Open → 2610.26271v1

End-to-end models improve automatic clinical note writing from long doctor talks

Bridging the Modality Gap in Long-Form Clinical Audio: A Comparative Study of Lightweight and Heavyweight End-to-End SOAP Generation

Abstract: Automating clinical documentation from long-form doctor-patient conversations remains challenging for modern audio-language models. While cascaded ASR systems perform well, end-to-end (E2E) models often struggle with information loss and hallucinations on extended audio. For the BeTraC 2026 challenge, the ASLP team presents a fully E2E multimodal system that generates structured SOAP notes directly from audio, bypassing intermediate transcripts. We constructed a 1.41-million-sample multi-task corpus and applied a multi-stage pipeline: domain pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and reward optimization. Evaluating the architecture under both Lightweight (3B) and Heavyweight (30B) constraints reveals that each training stage progressively enhances performance. Furthermore, scaling to 30B parameters substantially boosts concept extraction and summarization quality. Ultimately, our E2E systems consistently outperform representative cascaded ASR+LLM baselines, proving the efficacy of direct multimodal optimization for clinical documentation.

Sun 13 SeptSoundArtificial Intelligence
The gist
It is hard for current computer systems to turn long doctor-patient audio recordings into accurate medical notes without errors or missing details. The authors made a new system that directly turns audio into structured clinical notes without needing to write out the spoken words first. They trained their system on a huge dataset and improved it step-by-step. Bigger versions of their model worked better, and their approach beat other common methods that use speech recognition followed by text processing.
Open → 2609.14467v1