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Purpose: The conclusion section of a radiology report is crucial for summarizing the primary radiological findings in natural language and essential for communicating results to clinicians. However, creating these summaries is time-consuming, repetitive, and prone to variability and errors among different radiologists. To address these issues, we evaluated a fine-tuned Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) model for abstractive summarization to automatically generate conclusions for neuroradiology MRI reports in a low-resource language. Methods: We retrospectively applied our method to a dataset of 232,425 neuroradiology MRI reports in Spanish. We compared various pre-trained T5 models, including multilingual T5 and those newly adapted for Spanish. For precise evaluation, we employed BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE-L, CIDEr, and cosine similarity metrics alongside expert radiologist assessments. Results: The findings are promising, with the models specifically fine-tuned for neuroradiology MRI achieving scores of 0.46, 0.28, 0.52, 2.45, and 0.87 in the BLEU-1, METEOR, ROUGE-L, CIDEr, and cosine similarity metrics, respectively. In the radiological experts' evaluation, they found that in 75% of the cases evaluated, the conclusions generated by the system were as good as or even better than the manually generated conclusions. Conclusion: The methods demonstrate the potential and effectiveness of customizing state-of-the-art pre-trained models for neuroradiology, yielding automatic MRI report conclusions that nearly match expert quality. Furthermore, these results underscore the importance of designing and pre-training a dedicated language model for radiology report summarization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Having control over your data is a right and a duty that every citizen has in our digital society. It is often that users skip entire policies of applications or websites to save time and energy without realizing the potential sticky points in these policies. Due to obscure language and verbose explanations majority of users of hypermedia do not bother to read them. Further, sometimes digital media companies do not spend enough effort in stating their policies clearly which often time can also be incomplete. A summarized version of these privacy policies that can be categorized into the useful information can help the users. To solve this problem, in this work we propose to use machine learning-based models for policy categorizer that classifies the policy paragraphs under the attributes proposed like security, contact, etc. By benchmarking different machine learning-based classifier models, we show that artificial neural network model performs with higher accuracy on a challenging dataset of textual privacy policies. We thus show that machine learning can help summarize the relevant paragraphs under the various attributes so that the user can get the gist of that topic within a few lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]