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New method improves chest X-ray disease localization using distilled evidence

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Researchers have developed APED-CXR, a new method for improving the localization of diseases in chest X-rays. This approach distills spatial evidence from a multimodal teacher model into a smaller, image-only student model. By allowing the teacher model to evaluate and refine the student's proposed disease locations during training, APED-CXR significantly enhances box-level localization accuracy while maintaining diagnostic performance. AI

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New method improves chest X-ray disease localization using distilled evidence

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Md Shihabul Islam Shovo, Nishi Kanta Paul, Jamil Fayyad ·

    APED-CXR: Adaptive Privileged Evidence Distillation for Chest X-Ray Grounding with Image-Only Inference

    arXiv:2610.29740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compact chest X-ray (CXR) models that localize findings suit deployment, but box annotations are limited and report-aware multimodal models are expensive at inference. We introduce APED-CXR, which distills report-informed spatial ev…

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