Diagnostic captioning: a survey

Abstract Diagnostic captioning (DC) concerns the automatic generation of a diagnostic text from set medical images patient collected during an examination. DC can assist inexperienced physicians, reducing clinical errors. It also help experienced physicians produce reports faster. Following advances deep learning, especially in generic image captioning, has recently attracted more attention, leading to several systems and datasets. This article is extensive overview DC. presents relevant datasets, evaluation measures, up-to-date systems. highlights shortcomings that hinder DC’s progress proposes future directions.