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  - text-ranking
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  - radiology
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  - ct
  - computed-tomography
  - report-generation
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MetricEval-BodyCT

This repository is a body CT benchmark for evaluating radiology report-generation metrics against radiologists' judgment.

It covers 100 CT studies (50 chest and 50 abdomen/pelvis), with three candidate reports each. Every candidate was independently annotated by multiple board-certified radiologists. The reference reports are de-identified radiology reports from multiple US centers, provided by Segmed and redistributed under the Data Use Agreement in LICENSE. The candidate reports are synthetic perturbations of those references: deliberately injected errors, false clinical statements, hallucinations, etc.

1. Evaluation protocol

Write your metric's scores to a CSV (300 rows, one per candidate), where higher must mean better. Then run:

python3 eval.py --scores your_metric_scores.csv --out results_your_metric.json --label YourMetric

An example input file, example_scores.csv, is included in this repository:

study_id,candidate_label,score
abdomen_0108ee4fedcc,a,0.617761
abdomen_0108ee4fedcc,b,0.717391
abdomen_0108ee4fedcc,c,0.745223
...

An example of output

  endpoint                      tau_b             95% CI  blocks
  -------------------------- -------- ------------------ -------
  n_errors                     -0.361   [-0.432, -0.291]      97
  n_significant                -0.213   [-0.288, -0.142]      72
  rank_accuracy                -0.310   [-0.371, -0.252]      99
  rank_answers_indication      -0.209   [-0.275, -0.145]      94
  cat_hallucinated             -0.212   [-0.281, -0.142]      97
  cat_missed                   -0.172   [-0.308, -0.038]      33
  cat_other                    -0.075   [-0.387, +0.245]       6
  cat_wrong_certainty          -0.051   [-0.148, +0.050]      40
  cat_wrong_characterization   -0.270   [-0.453, -0.095]      13
  cat_wrong_comparison         -0.312   [-0.540, +0.069]       8
  cat_wrong_location           -0.369   [-0.494, -0.231]      20
  cat_wrong_measurement        -0.235   [-0.401, -0.054]      18
  cat_wrong_severity           -0.317   [-0.435, -0.197]      29

Results are also persisted as a JSON file.

Each endpoint is a different entry point into the radiologists' judgment:

endpoint what it is inter-rater ceiling (95% CI)
n_errors primary — their total error count -0.694 [-0.751, -0.634]
n_significant their count of clinically significant errors -0.471 [-0.564, -0.383]
rank_accuracy their ranking of the whole report's fidelity to the reference -0.645 [-0.746, -0.538]
rank_answers_indication their ranking of how well the impression answers the clinical indication -0.701 [-0.774, -0.618]
cat_hallucinated findings asserted by the candidate that the reference does not support -0.821 [-0.867, -0.773]
cat_missed findings present in the reference and absent from the candidate -0.690 [-0.820, -0.532]
cat_wrong_location a real finding placed at the wrong anatomic site -0.890 [-0.982, -0.786]
cat_wrong_severity a real finding graded more or less severe than the reference -0.879 [-0.975, -0.765]
cat_wrong_characterization a real finding described with the wrong morphology -0.922 [-1.000, -0.769]
cat_wrong_measurement a size, count or distance that disagrees with the reference -0.874 [-0.978, -0.700]
cat_wrong_certainty hedging that over- or under-states how definite the reference is -0.658 [-0.792, -0.517]
cat_wrong_comparison a change from a prior study invented, dropped or reversed -1.000 [-1.000, -1.000]
cat_other an error the rater logged outside the categories above too few blocks

2. Error records

Each rater, for each candidate, logged every error they found and then ranked the three candidates. annotations.errors is a nested column holding the individual errors; an empty list means the rater reviewed that candidate and confirmed it error-free.

field description
error_id stable id, so a specific error can be cited
category one of the 9 categories — see Dataset statistics for the taxonomy
significance significant | insignificant
anchor_line 1-based line of candidate_<label> the error sits on, or None
note optional free text, on 82 / 1582 errors (median 10 characters)

Because the published report text is the numbered view the radiologist saw, anchor_line resolves to a line by direct indexing:

line = study_row[f"candidate_{ann_row['candidate_label']}"].split("\n")[error["anchor_line"] - 1]

3. Dataset statistics

  • 100 studies — 50 chest_ct, 50 abdomen_ct, one per patient
  • 300 candidate reports — 3 per study
  • 600 independent expert reads — 2 radiologists × 300 candidates
  • 1582 error records
    • mean: 2.64, median: 3, min:0, max:10
    • 460 (29.1%) clinically significant
    • 1495 (94.5%) localized to a line
    • 82 (5.2%) carrying a free-text note
    • 62 of the 600 reads confirmed error-free

The error taxonomy and the distribution of categories:

category definition n
hallucinated finding asserted that is absent from the reference 903 (57.1%)
wrong_certainty hedging error; over- or under-call of confidence 229 (14.5%)
missed omission of a reference finding 135 (8.5%)
wrong_severity wrong severity or extent 87 (5.5%)
wrong_location wrong site or laterality 57 (3.6%)
wrong_comparison false, missing, or wrong-direction comparison to a prior study 56 (3.5%)
wrong_measurement wrong numeric measurement or count 52 (3.3%)
wrong_characterization wrong descriptor or characterization 37 (2.3%)
other catch-all; see note 26 (1.6%)

Citation

@misc{radmatch2026,
  title        = {RadMatch: Auditable Radiology Report Evaluation via Finding-Level Matching},
  author       = {Corbi\`ere, Charles and Machado, L\'eo and Charley, Aubin and Caillard, Baptiste
                  and Le Floch, Korentin and Manceron, Pierre and Dancette, Corentin},
  year         = {2026},
}