Sam-Guided Enhanced Fine-Grained Encoding with Mixed Semantic Learning for Medical Image Captioning
This work addresses the challenge of describing intricate details in medical images for diagnostic assistance, representing an incremental improvement over existing methods.
The paper tackles the problem of generating detailed captions for medical images by introducing a SAM-guided method with mixed semantic learning, which outperforms the pre-trained BLIP2 model on various evaluation metrics.
With the development of multimodality and large language models, the deep learning-based technique for medical image captioning holds the potential to offer valuable diagnostic recommendations. However, current generic text and image pre-trained models do not yield satisfactory results when it comes to describing intricate details within medical images. In this paper, we present a novel medical image captioning method guided by the segment anything model (SAM) to enable enhanced encoding with both general and detailed feature extraction. In addition, our approach employs a distinctive pre-training strategy with mixed semantic learning to simultaneously capture both the overall information and finer details within medical images. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, as it outperforms the pre-trained BLIP2 model on various evaluation metrics for generating descriptions of medical images.