NeuroSymb-MRG: Differentiable Abductive Reasoning with Active Uncertainty Minimization for Radiology Report Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Automatic generation of radiology reports seeks to reduce clinician workload while improving documentation consistency. Existing methods that adopt encoder-decoder or retrieval-augmented pipelines achieve progress in fluency but remain vulnerable to visual-linguistic biases, factual inconsistency, and lack of explicit multi-hop clinical reasoning. We present NeuroSymb-MRG, a unified framework that integrates NeuroSymbolic abductive reasoning with active uncertainty minimization to produce structured, clinically grounded reports. The system maps image features to probabilistic clinical concepts, composes differentiable logic-based reasoning chains, decodes those chains into templated clauses, and refines the textual output via retrieval and constrained language-model editing. An active sampling loop driven by rule-level uncertainty and diversity guides clinician-in-the-loop adjudication and promptbook refinement. Experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements in factual consistency and standard language metrics compared to representative baselines.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Clinical and biomedical applications, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 23 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 Mar 2026.
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