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Medical image analysis is essential in modern healthcare. Deep learning has redirected research focus toward complex medical multimodal tasks, including report generation and visual question answering. Traditional task-specific models often…

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With the availability of large-scale, comprehensive, and general-purpose vision-language (VL) datasets such as MSCOCO, vision-language pre-training (VLP) has become an active area of research and proven to be effective for various VL tasks…

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The exploration of various vision-language tasks, such as visual captioning, visual question answering, and visual commonsense reasoning, is an important area in artificial intelligence and continuously attracts the research community's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yayun Qi , Hongxi Li , Yiqi Song , Xinxiao Wu , Jiebo Luo

Multi-modal representation learning by pretraining has become an increasing interest due to its easy-to-use and potential benefit for various Visual-and-Language~(V-L) tasks. However its requirement of large volume and high-quality…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jia Guo , Chen Zhu , Yilun Zhao , Heda Wang , Yao Hu , Xiaofei He , Deng Cai

Medical image segmentation allows quantifying target structure size and shape, aiding in disease diagnosis, prognosis, surgery planning, and comprehension.Building upon recent advancements in foundation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kanchan Poudel , Manish Dhakal , Prasiddha Bhandari , Rabin Adhikari , Safal Thapaliya , Bishesh Khanal

In recent years, the growing demand for medical imaging diagnosis has placed a significant burden on radiologists. As a solution, Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (Med-VLP) methods have been proposed to learn universal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ke Zhang , Yan Yang , Jun Yu , Hanliang Jiang , Jianping Fan , Qingming Huang , Weidong Han

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) models have recently successfully facilitated many cross-modal downstream tasks. Most existing works evaluated their systems by comparing the fine-tuned downstream task performance. However, only average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Tiancheng Zhao , Tianqi Zhang , Mingwei Zhu , Haozhan Shen , Kyusong Lee , Xiaopeng Lu , Jianwei Yin

The Vision Language Model (VLM) excels in aligning vision and language representations, and prompt learning has emerged as a key technique for adapting such models to downstream tasks. However, the application of prompt learning with VLM in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhihao Wang , Wenke Huang , Tian Chen , Zekun Shi , Guancheng Wan , Yu Qiao , Bin Yang , Jian Wang , Bing Li , Mang Ye

Visual language models (VLMs) rapidly progressed with the recent success of large language models. There have been growing efforts on visual instruction tuning to extend the LLM with visual inputs, but lacks an in-depth study of the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ji Lin , Hongxu Yin , Wei Ping , Yao Lu , Pavlo Molchanov , Andrew Tao , Huizi Mao , Jan Kautz , Mohammad Shoeybi , Song Han

Vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) in the medical field utilizes contrastive learning on image-text pairs to achieve effective transfer across tasks. Yet, current VLP approaches with the masked modeling strategy face two challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Biao Wu , Yutong Xie , Zeyu Zhang , Minh Hieu Phan , Qi Chen , Ling Chen , Qi Wu

3D medical image analysis is pivotal in numerous clinical applications. However, the scarcity of labeled data and limited generalization capabilities hinder the advancement of AI-empowered models. Radiology reports are easily accessible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xuefeng Ni , Linshan Wu , Jiaxin Zhuang , Qiong Wang , Mingxiang Wu , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Lihai Zhang , Hanyu Gao , Hao Chen

Medical visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging multimodal task, where Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models can effectively improve the generalization performance. However, most methods in the medical field treat VQA as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jiawei Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yue Jiang , Yuxuan Lei , Lihua Zhang

Several recent works seek to develop foundation models specifically for medical applications, adapting general-purpose large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) via continued pretraining on publicly available biomedical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Daniel P. Jeong , Saurabh Garg , Zachary C. Lipton , Michael Oberst

While traditional computer vision models have historically struggled to generalize to endoscopic domains, the emergence of foundation models has shown promising cross-domain performance. In this work, we present the first large-scale study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Leon Mayer , Tim Rädsch , Dominik Michael , Lucas Luttner , Amine Yamlahi , Evangelia Christodoulou , Patrick Godau , Marcel Knopp , Annika Reinke , Fiona Kolbinger , Lena Maier-Hein

Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (MedVLP) has made significant progress in enabling zero-shot tasks for medical image understanding. However, training MedVLP models typically requires large-scale datasets with paired, high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Che Liu , Zhongwei Wan , Haozhe Wang , Yinda Chen , Talha Qaiser , Chen Jin , Fariba Yousefi , Nikolay Burlutskiy , Rossella Arcucci

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made substantial progress across a wide range of visual question answering benchmarks, spanning visual reasoning, document understanding, and multimodal dialogue. These improvements are evident in a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dhruba Ghosh , Yuhui Zhang , Ludwig Schmidt

This paper introduces VLAP, a novel approach that bridges pretrained vision models and large language models (LLMs) to make frozen LLMs understand the visual world. VLAP transforms the embedding space of pretrained vision models into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jungin Park , Jiyoung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn

Recent advancements in vision-language pre-training via contrastive learning have significantly improved performance across computer vision tasks. However, in the medical domain, obtaining multimodal data is often costly and challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ameera Bawazir , Kebin Wu , Wenbin Li

This paper presents a unified Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) model. The model is unified in that (1) it can be fine-tuned for either vision-language generation (e.g., image captioning) or understanding (e.g., visual question answering)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Luowei Zhou , Hamid Palangi , Lei Zhang , Houdong Hu , Jason J. Corso , Jianfeng Gao

Vision language models (VLMs) are an exciting emerging class of language models (LMs) that have merged classic LM capabilities with those of image processing systems. However, the ways that these capabilities combine are not always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Qiucheng Wu , Handong Zhao , Michael Saxon , Trung Bui , William Yang Wang , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang