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Advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced medical image analysis, yet the availability of large-scale medical datasets remains constrained by patient privacy concerns. We present EchoFlow, a novel framework designed to generate…

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The Vision-Language Foundation model is increasingly investigated in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing, yet its exploration in ophthalmology and broader medical applications remains limited. The challenge is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiawei Du , Jia Guo , Weihang Zhang , Shengzhu Yang , Hanruo Liu , Huiqi Li , Ningli Wang

Purpose: Echocardiographic interpretation requires video-level reasoning and guideline-based measurement analysis, which current deep learning models for cardiac ultrasound do not support. We present EchoAgent, a framework that enables…

Large unimodal foundation models for vision and language encode rich semantic structures, yet aligning them typically requires computationally intensive multimodal fine-tuning. Such approaches depend on large-scale parameter updates, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Abhishek Dalvi , Vasant Honavar

Echocardiography interpretation requires integrating multi-view temporal evidence with quantitative measurements and guideline-grounded reasoning, yet existing foundation-model pipelines largely solve isolated subtasks and fail when tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Moein Heidari , Ali Mehrabian , Mohammad Amin Roohi , Wenjin Chen , David J. Foran , Jasmine Grewal , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Foundational multimodal models pre-trained on large scale image-text pairs or video-text pairs or both have shown strong generalization abilities on downstream tasks. However unlike image-text models, pretraining video-text models is always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avinash Madasu , Anahita Bhiwandiwalla , Vasudev Lal

Echocardiography is a widely used modality for cardiac assessment due to its non-invasive and cost-effective nature, but the sparse and heterogeneous spatiotemporal views of the heart pose distinct challenges. Existing masked autoencoder…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is widely used in healthcare applications, such as arrhythmia detection and sleep monitoring, making accurate ECG analysis critically essential. Traditional deep learning models for ECG are task-specific, with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yu Han , Vittorio Murino , Xiaofeng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Cheng Ding

Echocardiography plays an important role in the screening and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. However, automated intelligent analysis of echocardiographic data remains challenging due to complex cardiac dynamics and strong view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Peng Huang , Yiming Wang , Yineng Chen , Liangqiao Gui , Hui Guo , Bo Peng , Shu Hu , Xi Wu , Tsao Connie , Hongtu Zhu , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran , Xin Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval and zero-shot classification but struggles with fine-grained understanding due to its focus on coarse-grained short captions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chunyu Xie , Bin Wang , Fanjing Kong , Jincheng Li , Dawei Liang , Gengshen Zhang , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

Due to the large volume of medical imaging data, advanced AI methodologies are needed to assist radiologists in diagnosing thoracic diseases from chest X-rays (CXRs). Existing deep learning models often require large, labeled datasets,…

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Foundation models have recently gained tremendous popularity in medical image analysis. State-of-the-art methods leverage either paired image-text data via vision-language pre-training or unpaired image data via self-supervised pre-training…

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Biomedical text embeddings have primarily been developed using research literature from PubMed, yet clinical cardiology practice relies heavily on procedural knowledge and specialized terminology found in comprehensive textbooks rather than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Richard J. Young , Alice M. Matthews

The emergence of large-scale pretrained foundation models has transformed computer vision, enabling strong performance across diverse downstream tasks. However, their potential for physics-based inverse problems, such as accelerated cardiac…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Anam Hashmi , Mayug Maniparambil , Julia Dietlmeier , Kathleen M. Curran , Noel E. O'Connor

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential non-invasive diagnostic tool for assessing cardiac conditions. Existing automatic interpretation methods suffer from limited generalizability, focusing on a narrow range of cardiac conditions, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ruoqi Liu , Yuelin Bai , Xiang Yue , Ping Zhang

Foundation models have emerged as a powerful approach for processing electronic health records (EHRs), offering flexibility to handle diverse medical data modalities. In this study, we present a comprehensive benchmark that evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kunyu Yu , Rui Yang , Jingchi Liao , Siqi Li , Huitao Li , Irene Li , Yifan Peng , Rishikesan Kamaleswaran , Nan Liu

CLIP models pretrained on natural images with billion-scale image-text pairs have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot classification, cross-modal retrieval, and open-ended visual answering. However, transferring this success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shansong Wang , Zhecheng Jin , Mingzhe Hu , Mojtaba Safari , Feng Zhao , Chih-Wei Chang , Richard LJ Qiu , Justin Roper , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Physiological signals such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and electroencephalograms (EEG) provide complementary insights into human health and cognition, yet multi-modal integration is challenging due to limited multi-modal labeled data, and…

Medical image segmentation is a cornerstone of computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment planning. While recent multimodal vision-language models have shown promise in enhancing semantic understanding through textual descriptions, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Saivan Talaei , Fatemeh Daneshfar , Abdulhady Abas Abdullah , Mustaqeem Khan

CLIP and BiomedCLIP are examples of vision-language foundation models and offer strong cross-modal embeddings; however, they are not optimized for fine-grained medical retrieval tasks, such as retrieving clinically relevant radiology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhaohui Liang , Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman , Niccolo Marini , Zhiyun Xue , Sameer Antani