Table 3 Ablation study on the effect of our proposed masked entity modeling loss and disease probability soft guidance on model performance.

From: Disease probability-enhanced follow-up chest X-ray radiology report summary generation

Method

MEM\(^{\dagger }\)

ESG\(^{\ddagger }\)

Natural language processing metric

Clinical metric

B1

B2

B3

B4

M

R

C

Acc5

Acc14

F1-5

F1-14

Rad-F1

EKAID7

  

62.8

55.3

49.1

43.4

33.9

57.7

1.027

\(\text {68.2}\)

\(\text {81.0}\)

50.1

46.6

31.6

DPE-base

  

57.4

51.0

45.6

40.7

41.6

59.0

0.968

59.9

77.6

41.9

35.7

32.7

DPE-mem

\(\checkmark\)

 

61.4

54.7

49.2

44.1

40.5

61.6

1.421

65.9

79.1

43.3

42.3

29.5

DPE-esg

 

\(\checkmark\)

63.8

57.3

51.9

46.9

39.9

63.6

1.615

68.3

81.6

49.3

44.4

27.6

DPE-esg14

 

\(\checkmark\)

64.5

58.2

52.9

48.0

40.8

65.6

1.684

69.9

82.7

51.6

46.2

25.4

DPE-esg26

 

\(\checkmark\)

67.8

61.2

55.7

50.7

42.2

68.4

2.025

75.4

84.5

56.9

54.9

36.2

DPE-all

\(\checkmark\)

\(\checkmark\)

65.6

58.8

53.1

48.0

39.4

62.9

1.680

69.7

81.9

49.9

45.9

28.1

DPE-all14

\(\checkmark\)

\(\checkmark\)

66.2

59.8

54.3

49.2

40.0

64.9

1.762

71.3

82.8

49.6

46.4

27.1

DPE-all26

\(\checkmark\)

\(\checkmark\)

69.0

62.6

57.2

52.4

42.2

69.2

2.118

76.5

85.2

58.5

55.9

36.7

  1. \({\dagger }\) MEM: masked entity modeling loss. \({\ddagger }\) ESG: disease probability soft guidance