We present HealthGPT, a powerful Medical Large Vision-Language Model (Med-LVLM) that integrates medical visual comprehension and generation capabilities within a unified autoregressive paradigm. Our bootstrapping philosophy is to progressively adapt heterogeneous comprehension and generation knowledge to pre-trained large language models (LLMs). This is achieved through a novel heterogeneous low-rank adaptation (H-LoRA) technique, which is complemented by a tailored hierarchical visual perception approach and a three-stage learning strategy. To effectively learn the HealthGPT, we devise a comprehensive medical domain-specific comprehension and generation dataset called VL-Health. Experimental results demonstrate exceptional performance and scalability of HealthGPT in medical visual unified tasks. Our project can be accessed at https://github.com/DCDmllm/HealthGPT.
@article{arxiv.2502.09838,
title = {HealthGPT: A Medical Large Vision-Language Model for Unifying Comprehension and Generation via Heterogeneous Knowledge Adaptation},
author = {Tianwei Lin and Wenqiao Zhang and Sijing Li and Yuqian Yuan and Binhe Yu and Haoyuan Li and Wanggui He and Hao Jiang and Mengze Li and Xiaohui Song and Siliang Tang and Jun Xiao and Hui Lin and Yueting Zhuang and Beng Chin Ooi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.09838},
year = {2025}
}