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Vision-language pre-training has recently gained popularity as it allows learning rich feature representations using large-scale data sources. This paradigm has quickly made its way into the medical image analysis community. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly popular across various visual tasks, and several open-sourced VLM variants have been released. However, selecting the best-performing pre-trained VLM for a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Hao-Zhe Tan , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit unprecedented capabilities in cross-modal semantic understanding between visual and textual modalities. Given the intrinsic need for multi-modal integration in clinical applications, VLMs have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Haoneng Lin , Cheng Xu , Jing Qin

Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) learns representations jointly from medical images and paired radiology reports. It typically requires large-scale paired image-text datasets to achieve effective pre-training for both the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Che Liu , Anand Shah , Wenjia Bai , Rossella Arcucci

With recent progress in joint modeling of visual and textual representations, Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved impressive performance on many multimodal downstream tasks. However, the requirement for expensive annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zirui Wang , Jiahui Yu , Adams Wei Yu , Zihang Dai , Yulia Tsvetkov , Yuan Cao

This paper surveys vision-language pre-training (VLP) methods for multimodal intelligence that have been developed in the last few years. We group these approaches into three categories: ($i$) VLP for image-text tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zhe Gan , Linjie Li , Chunyuan Li , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu , Jianfeng Gao

Medical image-language pre-training aims to align medical images with clinically relevant text to improve model performance on various downstream tasks. However, existing models often struggle with the variability and ambiguity inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shreyank N Gowda , Ruichi Zhang , Xiao Gu , Ying Weng , Lu Yang

Medical vision-and-language models (MVLMs) have attracted substantial interest due to their capability to offer a natural language interface for interpreting complex medical data. Their applications are versatile and have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Qi Chen , Ruoshan Zhao , Sinuo Wang , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Anton van den Hengel , Johan Verjans , Zhibin Liao , Minh-Son To , Yong Xia , Jian Chen , Yutong Xie , Qi Wu

Despite significant progress in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP), current approaches predominantly emphasize feature extraction and cross-modal comprehension, with limited attention to generating or transforming visual content. This gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Yu , Yucheng Chen , Xulei Yang , Si Yong Yeo

Most visual recognition studies rely heavily on crowd-labelled data in deep neural networks (DNNs) training, and they usually train a DNN for each single visual recognition task, leading to a laborious and time-consuming visual recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jingyi Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Sheng Jin , Shijian Lu

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they may over-rely on visual language priors existing in their training data rather than true visual reasoning. To investigate this, we introduce ViLP, a benchmark featuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tiange Luo , Ang Cao , Gunhee Lee , Justin Johnson , Honglak Lee

In this paper, we consider enhancing medical visual-language pre-training (VLP) with domain-specific knowledge, by exploiting the paired image-text reports from the radiological daily practice. In particular, we make the following…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Chaoyi Wu , Xiaoman Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Vision-language models (VLMs) can learn high-quality representations from a large-scale training dataset of image-text pairs. Prompt learning is a popular approach to fine-tuning VLM to adapt them to downstream tasks. Despite the satisfying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zhifang Zhang , Yuwei Niu , Xin Liu , Beibei Li

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) models have been demonstrated to be effective in many computer vision applications. In this paper, we consider developing a VLP model in the medical domain for making computer-aided diagnoses (CAD) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Qiuhui Chen , Xinyue Hu , Zirui Wang , Yi Hong

Vision-and-Language (V+L) pre-training models have achieved tremendous success in recent years on various multi-modal benchmarks. However, the majority of existing models require pre-training on a large set of parallel image-text data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Mingyang Zhou , Licheng Yu , Amanpreet Singh , Mengjiao Wang , Zhou Yu , Ning Zhang

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been the de facto paradigm for most natural language processing (NLP) tasks. This also benefits biomedical domain: researchers from informatics, medicine, and computer science (CS) communities propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Benyou Wang , Qianqian Xie , Jiahuan Pei , Zhihong Chen , Prayag Tiwari , Zhao Li , Jie fu

The large-scale pre-trained vision language models (VLM) have shown remarkable domain transfer capability on natural images. However, it remains unknown whether this capability can also apply to the medical image domain. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Ziyuan Qin , Huahui Yi , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

In medical image classification, supervised learning is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled medical images. To address this, we leverage the visual-textual alignment within Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enable unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Umaima Rahman , Raza Imam , Mohammad Yaqub , Boulbaba Ben Amor , Dwarikanath Mahapatra

This paper introduces an innovative approach to Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (Med-VLP) area in the specialized context of radiograph representation learning. While conventional methods frequently merge textual annotations into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Hanqi Jiang , Xixuan Hao , Yuzhou Huang , Chong Ma , Jiaxun Zhang , Yi Pan , Ruimao Zhang

This study investigates the feature representations produced by publicly available open source medical vision-language models (VLMs). While medical VLMs are expected to capture diagnostically relevant features, their learned representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Keita Takeda , Tomoya Sakai