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CLEAR: An Auditable Foundation Model for Radiology Grounded in Clinical Concepts

2026-01-17 health informatics Title + abstract only
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"Black box" deep learning models for medical image interpretation limit clinical trust and analysis of performance degradation. Here, we introduce Concept-Level Embeddings for Auditable Radiology (CLEAR), an auditable foundation model based on clinical concepts. Trained on over 0.87 million image-report pairs from 239,091 patients, CLEAR learns a visual representation and projects chest X-rays into a semantically rich space defined by large language model embeddings, making every prediction trac...

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