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This paper introduces a new challenge and datasets to foster research toward designing systems that can understand medical videos and provide visual answers to natural language questions. We believe medical videos may provide the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Deepak Gupta , Kush Attal , Dina Demner-Fushman

To contribute to automating the medical vision-language model, we propose a novel Chest-Xray Difference Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Given a pair of main and reference images, this task attempts to answer several questions on both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Xinyue Hu , Lin Gu , Qiyuan An , Mengliang Zhang , Liangchen Liu , Kazuma Kobayashi , Tatsuya Harada , Ronald M. Summers , Yingying Zhu

Multi-modal tasks involving vision and language in deep learning continue to rise in popularity and are leading to the development of newer models that can generalize beyond the extent of their training data. The current models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ethan Shen , Scotty Singh , Bhavesh Kumar

Medical image visual question answering (VQA) is a task to answer clinical questions, given a radiographic image, which is a challenging problem that requires a model to integrate both vision and language information. To solve medical VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Pengfei Li , Gang Liu , Lin Tan , Jinying Liao , Shenjun Zhong

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that combines both the techniques of computer vision and natural language processing. It requires models to answer a text-based question according to the information contained in a visual. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yeyun Zou , Qiyu Xie

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) combines computer vision and natural language processing to automatically answer clinical inquiries about medical images. However, current Med-VQA datasets exhibit two significant limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bo Liu , Ke Zou , Liming Zhan , Zexin Lu , Xiaoyu Dong , Yidi Chen , Chengqiang Xie , Jiannong Cao , Xiao-Ming Wu , Huazhu Fu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge as it requires the ability to understand and encode the multi-modal inputs - in terms of image processing and natural language processing. The algorithm further needs to learn how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Supriya Pandhre , Shagun Sodhani

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) aims to answer clinically relevant questions grounded in medical images. However, existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often exhibit shortcut answering, producing plausible responses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhisong Wang , Ziyang Chen , Zanting Ye , Hongze Zhu , Yefeng Zheng , Yong Xia

Large language models perform well on many medical QA benchmarks, but real clinical reasoning often requires integrating evidence across multiple images rather than interpreting a single view. We introduce MedThinkVQA, an expert-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zonghai Yao , Benlu Wang , Yifan Zhang , Junda Wang , Iris Xia , Zhipeng Tang , Shuo Han , Feiyun Ouyang , Zhichao Yang , Arman Cohan , Hong Yu

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of clinical diagnosis by providing accurate and timely responses to clinicians' inquiries regarding medical images. Existing MedVQA models suffered from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Shuchang Ye , Usman Naseem , Mingyuan Meng , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that has received increasing attention from both the computer vision and the natural language processing communities. Given an image and a question in natural language, it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Qi Wu , Damien Teney , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anthony Dick , Anton van den Hengel

One of the key goals of artificial intelligence (AI) is the development of a multimodal system that facilitates communication with the visual world (image and video) using a natural language query. Earlier works on medical question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Deepak Gupta , Dina Demner-Fushman

The visual world around us constantly evolves, from real-time news and social media trends to global infrastructure changes visible through satellite imagery and augmented reality enhancements. However, Multimodal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Mingyang Fu , Yuyang Peng , Dongping Chen , Zetong Zhou , Benlin Liu , Yao Wan , Zhou Zhao , Philip S. Yu , Ranjay Krishna

Current visual question answering (VQA) models tend to be trained and evaluated on image-question pairs in isolation. However, the questions people ask are dependent on their informational needs and prior knowledge about the image content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Nandita Shankar Naik , Christopher Potts , Elisa Kreiss

Real-world clinical practice demands multi-image comparative reasoning, yet current medical benchmarks remain limited to single-frame interpretation. We present MedFrameQA, the first benchmark explicitly designed to test multi-image medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Suhao Yu , Haojin Wang , Juncheng Wu , Luyang Luo , Jingshen Wang , Cihang Xie , Pranav Rajpurkar , Carl Yang , Yang Yang , Kang Wang , Yannan Yu , Yuyin Zhou

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

With growing interest in recent years, medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) has rapidly evolved, with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) emerging as an alternative to classical model architectures. Specifically, their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in interpreting visual layouts and text. However, a significant challenge remains in their ability to interpret robustly and reason over multi-tabular data presented as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Anshul Singh , Chris Biemann , Jan Strich

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), attracting significant attention from researchers. English is a resource-rich language that has witnessed various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Nghia Hieu Nguyen , Duong T. D Vo , Khanh Quoc Tran , Kiet Van Nguyen

Medical visual question answering aims to support clinical decision-making by enabling models to answer natural language questions based on medical images. While recent advances in multi-modal learning have significantly improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bo Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Along He , Yidi Chen , Huazhu Fu , Xiao-Ming Wu