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Medical vision-language models (VLMs) combine computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze visual and textual medical data. Our paper reviews recent advancements in developing VLMs specialized for healthcare,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Iryna Hartsock , Ghulam Rasool

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly popular in the medical domain, bridging the gap between medical images and clinical language. Existing VLMs demonstrate an impressive ability to comprehend medical images and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Bidur Khanal , Sandesh Pokhrel , Sanjay Bhandari , Ramesh Rana , Nikesh Shrestha , Ram Bahadur Gurung , Cristian Linte , Angus Watson , Yash Raj Shrestha , Binod Bhattarai

This paper proposes one of the first clinical applications of multimodal large language models (LLMs) as an assistant for radiologists to check errors in their reports. We created an evaluation dataset from real-world radiology datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jinge Wu , Yunsoo Kim , Eva C. Keller , Jamie Chow , Adam P. Levine , Nikolas Pontikos , Zina Ibrahim , Paul Taylor , Michelle C. Williams , Honghan Wu

Continual learning is essential for medical image classification systems to adapt to dynamically evolving clinical environments. The integration of multimodal information can significantly enhance continual learning of image classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiantao Tan , Peixian Ma , Kanghao Chen , Zhiming Dai , Ruixuan Wang

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents unprecedented opportunities to revolutionize medical contrastive vision-language pre-training. In this paper, we show how LLMs can facilitate large-scale supervised pre-training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yingtai Li , Haoran Lai , Xiaoqian Zhou , Shuai Ming , Wenxin Ma , Wei Wei , Shaohua Kevin Zhou

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

The development of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) is striving to catch up with the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it faces more challenges to be resolved. Very recent works enable LVLMs to localize object-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhipeng Huang , Zhizheng Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yan Lu , Baining Guo

The main challenges limiting the adoption of deep learning-based solutions in medical workflows are the availability of annotated data and the lack of interpretability of such systems. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) tackle the latter by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cristiano Patrício , Isabel Rio-Torto , Jaime S. Cardoso , Luís F. Teixeira , João C. Neves

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

Accurate disease interpretation from radiology remains challenging due to imaging heterogeneity. Achieving expert-level diagnostic decisions requires integration of subtle image features with clinical knowledge. Yet major vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Difei Gu , Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in dealing with new tasks with the help of in-context learning (ICL). In the study of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), when implementing ICL, researchers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ellen Yi-Ge , Jiechao Gao , Wei Han , Wei Zhu

The prevalence of vision-threatening eye diseases is a significant global burden, with many cases remaining undiagnosed or diagnosed too late for effective treatment. Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have the potential to assist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Zhenyue Qin , Yu Yin , Dylan Campbell , Xuansheng Wu , Ke Zou , Yih-Chung Tham , Ninghao Liu , Xiuzhen Zhang , Qingyu Chen

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, garnering significant attention in AI communities. However, their performance and reliability in specialized domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yang Nan , Huichi Zhou , Xiaodan Xing , Guang Yang

Accurate and early diagnosis of malignant melanoma is critical for improving patient outcomes. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown promise in dermoscopic image analysis, they often neglect clinical metadata and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jihyun Moon , Charmgil Hong

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have recently achieved superior performance in various tasks on natural image and text data, which inspires a large amount of studies for LVLMs fine-tuning and training. Despite their advancements, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Zishan Gu , Changchang Yin , Fenglin Liu , Ping Zhang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promise in advancing healthcare. However, most existing models remain confined to single-image understanding, which greatly limits their applicability in clinical workflows. In practice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhen Chen , Yihang Fu , Gabriel Madera , Mauro Giuffre , Serina Applebaum , Hyunjae Kim , Hua Xu , Qingyu Chen

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are capable of handling diverse data types such as imaging, text, and physiological signals, and can be applied in various fields. In the medical field, LVLMs have a high potential to offer substantial…

A visual-language model (VLM) pre-trained on natural images and text pairs poses a significant barrier when applied to medical contexts due to domain shift. Yet, adapting or fine-tuning these VLMs for medical use presents considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Aisha Urooj Khan , John Garrett , Tyler Bradshaw , Lonie Salkowski , Jiwoong Jason Jeong , Amara Tariq , Imon Banerjee

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have experienced significant advancements in recent years. However, their performance still falls short in tasks requiring deep visual perception, such as identifying subtle differences between images. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qingguo Hu , Ante Wang , Jia Song , Delai Qiu , Qingsong Liu , Jinsong Su

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in visual understanding and reasoning across various vision-language tasks. However, we found that MLLMs cannot process effectively from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Bangyan Li , Wenxuan Huang , Zhenkun Gao , Yeqiang Wang , Yunhang Shen , Jingzhong Lin , Ling You , Yuxiang Shen , Shaohui Lin , Wanli Ouyang , Yuling Sun