What the programme covers
Radiology reports contain valuable clinical interpretation but also uncertainty, comparisons, recommendations and references to prior examinations. A programme must preserve the correct study relationship and distinguish findings from impression, history and copied text.
What a useful specification includes
A defensible request defines the clinical task, source evidence and acceptance criteria before patient-level data moves. The exact fields and thresholds depend on the intended model claim.
- Modality, anatomy and report types
- Findings, impression and clinical-history fields
- Study and accession matching rules
- Language, templates and reporting-site distribution
- Target concepts, negation and uncertainty policy
- Text privacy and manual exception handling
Quality and validation controls
Report quality controls verify imaging linkage, section structure and privacy while preserving clinically meaningful negation, temporality and uncertainty.
- Report-to-study linkage accuracy
- Section and template normalization
- Negation and uncertainty handling
- Copied-text and addendum detection
- Direct and indirect identifier review
Availability, rights and delivery
Reports can be delivered as approved de-identified text, structured concepts or linked multimodal records with documented transformation and label provenance.
Public pages describe a sourcing and engineering capability, not guaranteed ready inventory. Each release remains subject to verified programme inventory, programme-specific authorization, privacy review, technical acceptance and buyer licence terms.
Questions, answered directly.
Can reports be used as ground truth?+
Sometimes, but suitability depends on the task, reporting standard and whether stronger evidence is required.
Can report text contain identifiers?+
Yes. Text requires dedicated privacy processing and validation before release.
Can reports support vision-language models?+
Potentially, when image-report pairs are correctly matched and the programme licence covers the intended use.
Are addenda preserved?+
They should be tracked when available because they may alter the final interpretation.