Radiology Report Conditional 3D CT Generation with Multi Encoder Latent diffusion Model
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Abstract (arXiv)
Text to image latent diffusion models have recently advanced medical image synthesis, but applications to 3D CT generation remain limited. Existing approaches rely on simplified prompts, neglecting the rich semantic detail in full radiology reports, which reduces text image alignment and clinical fidelity. We propose Report2CT, a radiology report conditional latent diffusion framework for synthesizing 3D chest CT volumes directly from free text radiology reports, incorporating both findings and impression sections using multiple text encoder. Report2CT integrates three pretrained medical text encoders (BiomedVLP CXR BERT, MedEmbed, and ClinicalBERT) to capture nuanced clinical context. Radiology reports and voxel spacing information condition a 3D latent diffusion model trained on 20000 CT volumes from the CT RATE dataset. Model performance was evaluated using Frechet Inception Distance (FID) for real synthetic distributional similarity and CLIP based metrics for semantic alignment, with additional qualitative and quantitative comparisons against GenerateCT model. Report2CT generated anatomically consistent CT volumes with excellent visual quality and text image alignment. Multi encoder conditioning improved CLIP scores, indicating stronger preservation of fine grained clinical details in the free text radiology reports. Classifier free guidance further enhanced alignment with only a minor trade off in FID. We ranked first in the VLM3D Challenge at MICCAI 2025 on Text Conditional CT Generation and achieved state of the art performance across all evaluation metrics. By leveraging complete radiology reports and multi encoder text conditioning, Report2CT advances 3D CT synthesis, producing clinically faithful and high quality synthetic data.
Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Medical imaging and segmentation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 20 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Sep 2025.
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- 2025From Alignment to Synthesis: Contrastive Volumetric Grounding for Text-to-CT Generation31 May
- 2025Text2CT: Towards 3D CT Volume Generation from Free-text Descriptions Using Diffusion Model7 May
- 2024MAISI: Medical AI for Synthetic Imaging13 Sep
- 2024Chest-Diffusion: A Light-Weight Text-to-Image Model for Report-to-CXR Generation30 Jun
- 2023GenerateCT: Text-Conditional Generation of 3D Chest CT Volumes25 May
- 2022Diffusion Probabilistic Models beat GANs on Medical Images14 Dec
- 2022Diffusion Models for Medical Image Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey14 Nov
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