SMR IU X-Ray (Simplified Medical Reports)

This paper introduces CPIR-MR (Chained Prompting for Improved Readability of Medical Reports), a method designed to simplify complex chest X-ray reports for better patient understanding. The authors extend the IU X-Ray dataset with Simplified Medical Reports (SMRs) generated via chained prompting and propose a multi-modal text decoder (MTD) that integrates BLIP embeddings with classification outputs to generate Simplified Medical Explanations (SMEs).


Key highlights:

- Uses few-shot and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting for generating structured, readable outputs.

- Maintains medical accuracy while improving readability and sentiment consistency.

- Introduces CPMK-E, a chained prompting system for keyword extraction and evaluation using Gemini 1.5 Flash.

- Shows strong performance in text complexity reduction and semantic similarity preservation.