MARCH: Multi-Agent Radiology Clinical Hierarchy for CT Report Generation
Yi Lin, Yihao Ding, Yonghui Wu, Yifan Peng
TLDR
MARCH is a multi-agent AI framework that mimics radiology department hierarchy to generate more accurate and reliable CT reports.
Key contributions
- Employs a multi-agent framework mimicking radiology department hierarchy.
- Features specialized agents: Resident (drafting), Fellow (revision), Attending (consensus).
- Uses multi-scale CT features and retrieval-augmented revision for accuracy.
- Outperforms baselines in clinical fidelity and linguistic accuracy on RadGenome-ChestCT.
Why it matters
This paper addresses critical issues of hallucinations and lack of verification in automated radiology report generation. By modeling human-like organizational structures, MARCH significantly enhances the reliability and accuracy of AI in high-stakes medical domains, making it safer for clinical use.
Original Abstract
Automated 3D radiology report generation often suffers from clinical hallucinations and a lack of the iterative verification found in human practice. While recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced the field, they typically operate as monolithic "black-box" systems without the collaborative oversight characteristic of clinical workflows. To address these challenges, we propose MARCH (Multi-Agent Radiology Clinical Hierarchy), a multi-agent framework that emulates the professional hierarchy of radiology departments and assigns specialized roles to distinct agents. MARCH utilizes a Resident Agent for initial drafting with multi-scale CT feature extraction, multiple Fellow Agents for retrieval-augmented revision, and an Attending Agent that orchestrates an iterative, stance-based consensus discourse to resolve diagnostic discrepancies. On the RadGenome-ChestCT dataset, MARCH significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both clinical fidelity and linguistic accuracy. Our work demonstrates that modeling human-like organizational structures enhances the reliability of AI in high-stakes medical domains.
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