Artificial intelligence assisted ultrasound report generation

Table 2 Key concepts in ultrasound report generation

Concept	Description	Significance
AI-assisted ultrasound report generation	Technology using AI to convert ultrasound imaging into structured diagnostic reports	Enhances efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of diagnosis
VLMs	AI models that integrate visual (images) and linguistic (text) information	Enable understanding of image content and generation of descriptive text
Image encoder	A component of VLMs that encodes image information	Transforms images into a format that the model can process
Text encoder	A component of VLMs that encodes text information	Transforms text into a format that the model can process
Attention mechanism	A technique that allows the model to focus on specific parts of the input (image or text)	Improves the model's ability to focus on important image regions and text
LLMs	Transformer-based models pre-trained on large text corpora	Enhance the quality and fluency of generated text

AI: Artificial intelligence; LLMs: Large language models; VLMs: Visual language models.