RadEval: A framework for radiology text evaluation
Authors: name: Justin Xu; name: Xi Zhang; name: Javid Abderezaei; name: Julie Bauml; name: Roger Boodoo; name: Fatemeh Haghighi; name: Ali Ganjizadeh; name: Eric Brattain; name: Dave Van Veen; name: Zaiqiao Meng; name: David Eyre; name: Jean-Benoit Delbrouck
Published: 2025-09-22 17:03:48

Abstract: We introduce RadEval, a unified, open-source framework for evaluating
radiology texts. RadEval consolidates a diverse range of metrics, from classic
n-gram overlap (BLEU, ROUGE) and contextual measures (BERTScore) to clinical
concept-based scores (F1CheXbert, F1RadGraph, RaTEScore, SRR-BERT,
TemporalEntityF1) and advanced LLM-based evaluators (GREEN). We refine and
standardize implementations, extend GREEN to support multiple imaging
modalities with a more lightweight model, and pretrain a domain-specific
radiology encoder, demonstrating strong zero-shot retrieval performance. We
also release a richly annotated expert dataset with over 450 clinically
significant error labels and show how different metrics correlate with
radiologist judgment. Finally, RadEval provides statistical testing tools and
baseline model evaluations across multiple publicly available datasets,
facilitating reproducibility and robust benchmarking in radiology report
generation.