SentZero: An Enhanced Sentence-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining for Multi-Task Zero-Shot Chest X-Ray Analysis

arXiv:2609.34479 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Grounding — 25× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Chest X-ray — 24× in this paper
• Embeddings — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 10× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 7× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 5× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Zero-Shot Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• AUROC — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Unified Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• AdamW Optimizer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Predictive Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Vision Transformer (ViT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Layer Normalization
• Concept-Guided Noisy Negative Suppression for Zero-Shot Classification and Grounding of Chest X-Ray Findings
• ChestX-Det10: Chest X-ray Dataset on Detection of Thoracic Abnormalities
• Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding
• GLINT: Sparsely Gated Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Radiology Representations

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