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arxiv: 2606.19460 · v1 · pith:Y4YNYYLEnew · submitted 2026-06-17 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.LG

Scaling Generative Foundation Models for Chest Radiography with Rectified Flow Transformers

Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Emma A.M. Stanley , Charles Jones , Tian Xia , Dominic C. Marshall , Laurent Renard Trich\'e , Christopher V. Cosgriff , Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos
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keywords chest radiographygenerative foundation modelsrectified flow transformersmedical image synthesissynthetic data for AIradiograph generation
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A 1.3-billion-parameter model trained on 1.2 million chest radiographs generates images that clinical experts cannot distinguish from real ones.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper claims to have built the first generative foundation model for chest radiograph synthesis at billion-parameter scale, trained from scratch on a heterogeneous collection of 1.2 million images plus metadata. The model enables controllable generation and editing across demographic groups, acquisition views, and a range of pathologies. The authors position this capability as a route to diversify clinical datasets and test the robustness of diagnostic AI systems that currently generalize poorly. A sympathetic reader would see value in synthetic data that matches real radiographs closely enough to serve as a practical substitute or supplement in training and evaluation pipelines.

Core claim

The authors introduce the first generative foundation model for chest radiograph synthesis trained from scratch at the billion-parameter scale, with over 1.3B parameters trained for 1.6T tokens on a curated dataset comprising 1.2M radiographs and clinical expert-guided metadata. The model supports controllable radiograph generation and editing across multiple demographic subgroups, acquisition views, and a dozen pathologies while advancing synthesis fidelity to the point that produced images are indistinguishable from real radiographs to clinical experts.

What carries the argument

A rectified flow transformer scaled to 1.3 billion parameters that performs the controlled synthesis and editing of chest radiographs.

If this is right

  • Controlled synthesis becomes feasible across demographic subgroups, acquisition views, and multiple pathologies at previously unattained fidelity.
  • Clinical datasets can be diversified with synthetic images to mitigate generalization failures in existing radiographic AI.
  • Robustness testing of diagnostic models can incorporate generated examples that match real acquisition conditions.
  • High-parameter-scale training from scratch is shown viable for specialist medical image domains.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the indistinguishability holds under quantitative metrics, the model could serve as a data-augmentation engine to expand rare pathology examples without new patient recruitment.
  • The same scaling recipe might transfer to other radiographic or cross-sectional modalities where data scarcity limits model robustness.
  • Downstream utility could be tested by measuring whether diagnostic performance on real cases improves when training sets are augmented with the generated images.

Load-bearing premise

Expert visual indistinguishability serves as a sufficient proxy for high-fidelity synthesis and downstream clinical utility without additional quantitative validation or utility testing.

What would settle it

A blinded expert study in which clinicians identify the synthetic images at rates significantly above chance, or a controlled experiment showing that diagnostic models trained only on the generated images perform worse on real patient test sets than models trained on real data.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.19460 by Ben Glocker, Charles Jones, Christopher V. Cosgriff, Dominic C. Marshall, Emma A.M. Stanley, Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro, Laurent Renard Trich\'e, Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Tian Xia.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Generative foundation model for chest radiography. (a) Proposed CXR7-1M dataset, harmonised from seven existing datasets and augmented with additional radiologist-guided metadata. (b) Radiographic rectified flow transformer (RadiT), and VAE trained with Rad-DINO perceptual loss (Rad-VAE). (c) Synthetic 512×512 chest radiographs generated using our RadiT XL (1.3B). explored view-specific CXR generation, whe… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Clinical experts’ performance on the real-vs-synthetic task across 2 presentations. Near-chance accuracy and low intra- and inter-rater Cohen’s κ indicate high synthetic image realism. we repeat the input 3 times and average the decoder’s RGB predictions. As reported in Tables 2 & 8, RadVAE (Scratch) achieves the best radiographic fidelity (Rad-DINO rFD) while outperforming Stable Diffusion VAEs in terms o… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Selected 512×512 edits of real radiographs generated by our RadiT XL (1.3B) model. of 96.1 and 76.8, respectively, on their MIMIC-CXR split, whereas our 1.3B model achieves an FID of 4.25 on ours, further indicating a large improvement in raw generative fidelity over recent CXR synthesis models. With a 50K reference test split from CXR7-1M, RadiT XL achieves an FDD of 1.72, approaching the range of distrib… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: ROCAUC performance radar plot of our patient metadata predictors trained on CXR7-1M. Patient Metadata Predictors. To facilitate subgroup analysis of our models, we develop pa￾tient metadata predictors on CXR7-1M. These predictors may be of independent interest to the community due to their strong performance. We consider all 19 target variables in CXR7-1M (§3), and train our predictors with a multi-task lo… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Performance evaluation of subgroup-controlled CXR synthesis. Plot titles denote edited attributes. (a) Difference in Rad-DINOAP ROCAUC between 5K CXR7-1M images and their edits. ∆ROCAUC values closer to zero indicate better performance. (b) Trade-off between effective editing (X-axis) and patient identity preservation (Y-axis) for our best latent- vs. pixel-space flow models. from CheXpert-14, for six sets… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: CXR7-1M dataset composition. Showing the 7 different dataset sources (top left) and all the available metadata variables, which were harmonised with the help of a clinical expert. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: RadVAE radiographic perceptual training schematic. Our RadVAE variants are optimised for radiographic fidelity by either training from scratch or LoRA fine-tuning from a FLUX.2 base, using a domain-specific Rad-DINO perceptual loss (§4.1) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Rectified flow transformer architectures. (a) Latent-space rectified flow models operate on Rad-VAE latent tokens and use patient metadata conditioning to generate controllable chest radiographs. (b) Pixel-space rectified flow models operate directly on image patch tokens with the same metadata conditioning interface, avoiding an explicit VAE bottleneck [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Proposed clinical expert-informed causal graph of demographic factors and radiologic find [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Patient metadata and clinical finding predictors trained on CXR7-1M. Radar plots comparing ResNet50, attention-pooled DINOv3AP, and three Rad-DINO variants. Reporting RO￾CAUC on the left, and AUPRC on the right. We find that Rad-DINOAP outperforms all baselines, and given its strong performance, we expect it to be broadly useful beyond image editing evaluation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Ablation of ODE solver Midpoint function evaluations (NFE). We used our RadiT XL model and the 5k-sample MIMIC-CXR split from the CXR7-1M test set as the reference. From top to bottom, each row shows results computed using Rad-DINO, DINOv3, and Inceptionv3 features. The dopri5 ODE solver used to obtain the results in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Difference in Rad-DINOAP ROCAUC between the 5K images sampled from our models, and their edited versions. Each column represents the attribute that was edited. ∆ROCAUC values closer to zero indicate better editing performance. MAE values for Age are reported in Appendix C.4 ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Identity preservation comparison of our best latent- and pixel-space flow models. Cosine similarity is measured between original and edited CXRs using Rad-DINOAP task conditioned embeddings. Titles show target edits; x-axis labels show task embeddings used. RadUNetpix achieves higher cosine similarities, indicating better identity preservation but less effective editing. 32 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Identity preservation comparison of latent- versus pixel-space flows with matched backbones. Cosine similarity is measured between original and edited CXRs using Rad-DINOAP task conditioned embeddings. Titles show target edits; x-axis labels show task embeddings used. (a) UNet backbone, (b) Transformer backbone. 33 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Edits performed on a real radiograph from CXR7-1M (left) and a synthetic radiograph [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Comparing edit effectiveness of RadiT XL vs. RadUNet [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Examples of editing failure cases with RadiT XL. ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Synthetic 512×512 chest radiographs generated using our RadiT XL model. 36 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Synthetic 512×512 chest radiographs generated using our RadiT XL model. 37 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Synthetic 512×512 chest radiographs generated by our RadiT XL (1.3B) model, which all three clinical experts classified as real in a blinded real-vs-synthetic reader study. 38 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_20.png] view at source ↗
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We introduce the first generative foundation model for chest radiograph synthesis trained from scratch at the billion-parameter scale. Existing radiographic AI models often suffer from poor generalisation across patient subpopulations, institutions, and acquisition settings, resulting in limited real-world clinical utility. Controlled, high-fidelity synthesis of chest radiographs is a promising path toward diversifying clinical datasets and evaluating the robustness of diagnostic models. Therefore, we present the largest specialist generative foundation model for chest radiographs to date, with over 1.3B parameters, trained for 1.6T tokens on a curated, heterogeneous dataset comprising 1.2M radiographs and clinical expert-guided metadata. Our model supports controllable radiograph generation and editing across multiple demographic subgroups, acquisition views, and a dozen pathologies. Moreover, we significantly advance the state of the art in radiograph synthesis fidelity, producing images that are indistinguishable from real radiographs to clinical experts.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces the first generative foundation model for chest radiograph synthesis trained from scratch at the billion-parameter scale (over 1.3B parameters) using Rectified Flow Transformers. Trained for 1.6T tokens on a curated dataset of 1.2M radiographs with expert-guided metadata, the model supports controllable generation and editing across demographic subgroups, acquisition views, and a dozen pathologies. It claims to significantly advance the state of the art by producing images indistinguishable from real radiographs to clinical experts.

Significance. If the fidelity and controllability claims hold with proper validation, this would be a notable advance in scaling specialist generative models for medical imaging, offering potential for dataset diversification and robustness testing of diagnostic models. The reported training scale and heterogeneous data curation are strengths, but the absence of quantitative metrics or study details for the core indistinguishability claim limits the assessed significance.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the model produces 'images that are indistinguishable from real radiographs to clinical experts' is presented without any information on the expert study design, including rater count, number of images per rater, blinding protocol, statistical tests for indistinguishability, inter-rater agreement, or power analysis. This is load-bearing for both the SOTA fidelity assertion and the overall utility argument.
  2. [Results] Results (and abstract): No quantitative synthesis metrics such as FID, KID, precision/recall, or pathology-specific detection performance are reported, nor any downstream tests of whether synthetic data improves classifier robustness or generalization. The expert judgment is the sole evidence offered for fidelity and clinical utility.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The parameter count (1.3B) and token count (1.6T) are stated without cross-reference to the model architecture section or training hyperparameters.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's detailed review and the opportunity to clarify and strengthen our manuscript. Below we respond to the major comments point by point.

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  1. Referee: The claim that the model produces 'images that are indistinguishable from real radiographs to clinical experts' is presented without any information on the expert study design, including rater count, number of images per rater, blinding protocol, statistical tests for indistinguishability, inter-rater agreement, or power analysis. This is load-bearing for both the SOTA fidelity assertion and the overall utility argument.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from a brief reference to the expert study design supporting the indistinguishability claim. The full manuscript describes the evaluation protocol in the results section, but we will revise the abstract to summarize key elements of the study (multiple clinical experts, blinded presentation, and statistical testing for equivalence). We will also verify that the methods and results sections provide complete information on rater numbers, image counts per rater, blinding, inter-rater agreement, and power analysis to make the claim fully transparent. revision: yes

  2. Referee: No quantitative synthesis metrics such as FID, KID, precision/recall, or pathology-specific detection performance are reported, nor any downstream tests of whether synthetic data improves classifier robustness or generalization. The expert judgment is the sole evidence offered for fidelity and clinical utility.

    Authors: Expert clinical judgment is the primary evidence presented because it directly assesses perceptual and diagnostic realism in a medical context, where standard generative metrics such as FID have known limitations in correlating with human perception for high-resolution radiographs. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the utility of reporting automated metrics for comparability with prior work. In the revised manuscript we will add FID, KID, and precision/recall computed on a held-out test set. Downstream experiments testing whether synthetic images improve classifier robustness were outside the scope of the present study, which focused on model development and fidelity validation; we will note this explicitly as a limitation and direction for future work. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper presents empirical results from training a large generative model on external data, with central claims resting on model scale (1.3B parameters, 1.6T tokens, 1.2M radiographs) and external expert visual assessment rather than any internal derivation, equation, or prediction. No self-definitional loops, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations are present in the provided text; the work is self-contained against external benchmarks.

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