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In this paper, we propose a new dataset, ReasonVQA, for the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Our dataset is automatically integrated with structured encyclopedic knowledge and constructed using a low-cost framework, which is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Duong T. Tran , Trung-Kien Tran , Manfred Hauswirth , Danh Le Phuoc

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models aim to answer natural language questions about given images. Due to its ability to ask questions that differ from those used when training the model, medical VQA has received substantial attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sergio Tascon-Morales , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

Artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant potential in clinical decision-making; however, developing models capable of adapting to diverse real-world scenarios and performing complex diagnostic reasoning remains a major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ronghao Xu , Zhen Huang , Yangbo Wei , Xiaoqian Zhou , Zikang Xu , Ting Liu , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

We present VinDr-CXR-VQA, a large-scale chest X-ray dataset for explainable Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) with spatial grounding. The dataset contains 17,597 question-answer pairs across 4,394 images, each annotated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dang H. Nguyen , Hieu H. Pham , Hao T. Nguyen , Hieu H. Pham

With advances in multimodal research and deep learning, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for a wide range of multimodal tasks. As a core problem in vision-language research, Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Quanxing Xu , Ling Zhou , Xian Zhong , Xiaohua Huang , Rubing Huang , Chia-Wen Lin

Visual Question-Answering (VQA) is a challenging multimodal task that requires integrating visual and textual information to generate accurate responses. While multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) has shown promise in enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhuo Chen , Xinyu Geng , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Pengjun Xie , Kewei Tu

Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. As a community, we have achieved good benchmarks over language and vision domains separately, however…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Visual question answering on document images that contain textual, visual, and layout information, called document VQA, has received much attention recently. Although many datasets have been proposed for developing document VQA systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ryota Tanaka , Kyosuke Nishida , Kosuke Nishida , Taku Hasegawa , Itsumi Saito , Kuniko Saito

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) in the surgical domain aims to enhance intraoperative understanding by enabling AI models to reason over temporally coherent events rather than isolated frames. Current approaches are limited to static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Mauro Orazio Drago , Luca Carlini , Pelinsu Celebi Balyemez , Dennis Pierantozzi , Chiara Lena , Cesare Hassan , Danail Stoyanov , Elena De Momi , Sophia Bano , Mobarak I. Hoque

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

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a challenging multimodal reasoning task requiring intelligent systems to answer natural language queries based on paired audio-video inputs accurately. However, existing AVQA approaches often suffer…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jie Ma , Zhitao Gao , Qi Chai , Jun Liu , Pinghui Wang , Jing Tao , Zhou Su

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a complex multi-modal reasoning task, demanding intelligent systems to accurately respond to natural language queries based on audio-video input pairs. Nevertheless, prevalent AVQA approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jie Ma , Min Hu , Pinghui Wang , Wangchun Sun , Lingyun Song , Hongbin Pei , Jun Liu , Youtian Du

Multimodal language models (MLMs) show promise for clinical decision support and diagnostic reasoning, raising the prospect of end-to-end automated medical image interpretation. However, clinicians are highly selective in adopting AI tools;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mahtab Bigverdi , Wisdom Ikezogwo , Kevin Zhang , Hyewon Jeong , Mingyu Lu , Sungjae Cho , Linda Shapiro , Ranjay Krishna

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in medical question answering but often struggle with hallucinations and shallow reasoning, particularly in tasks requiring nuanced clinical understanding. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ziyu Wang , Elahe Khatibi , Amir M. Rahmani

Bridging clinical diagnostic reasoning with AI remains a central challenge in medical imaging. We introduce MedCLM, an automated pipeline that converts detection datasets into large-scale medical visual question answering (VQA) data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Soo Yong Kim , Suin Cho , Vincent-Daniel Yun , Gyeongyeon Hwang

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) is a challenging task that requires a deep understanding of both medical images and textual questions. Although recent works leveraging Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (Med-VLP) have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yuanhao Zou , Zhaozheng Yin

There is a key problem in the medical visual question answering task that how to effectively realize the feature fusion of language and medical images with limited datasets. In order to better utilize multi-scale information of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Shanshan Song , Jiangyun Li , Jing Wang , Yuanxiu Cai , Wenkai Dong

Decoding visual content from fMRI signals recorded while a person views images, and specifically answering questions about the seen images, is a long-standing challenge. While significant progress has been made in recent years in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Roman Beliy , Matias Cosarinsky , Oliver Heinimann , Navve Wasserman , Michal Irani

We introduce MedXpertQA, a highly challenging and comprehensive benchmark to evaluate expert-level medical knowledge and advanced reasoning. MedXpertQA includes 4,460 questions spanning 17 specialties and 11 body systems. It includes two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuxin Zuo , Shang Qu , Yifei Li , Zhangren Chen , Xuekai Zhu , Ermo Hua , Kaiyan Zhang , Ning Ding , Bowen Zhou

Medical vision-language models (VLMs) excel at image-text understanding but typically rely on a single-pass reasoning that neglects localized visual cues. In clinical practice, however, human experts iteratively scan, focus, and refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kaitao Chen , Shaohao Rui , Yankai Jiang , Jiamin Wu , Qihao Zheng , Chunfeng Song , Xiaosong Wang , Mu Zhou , Mianxin Liu