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Automatic medical image segmentation is a crucial topic in the medical domain and successively a critical counterpart in the computer-aided diagnosis paradigm. U-Net is the most widespread image segmentation architecture due to its…

Having revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) applications, large language models (LLMs) are expanding into the realm of multimodal inputs. Owing to their ability to interpret images, multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have been primarily…

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This study presents Medical Vision Generalist (MVG), the first foundation model capable of handling various medical imaging tasks -- such as cross-modal synthesis, image segmentation, denoising, and inpainting -- within a unified…

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Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by providing non-invasive visualisation of internal structures and abnormalities, enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, and treatment planning. This study aims to…

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3D medical image analysis is of great importance in disease diagnosis and treatment. Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have exhibited robust perceptual capacity, strong cross-modal alignment, and promising generalizability.…

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Visual-language models have advanced the development of universal models, yet their application in medical imaging remains constrained by specific functional requirements and the limited data. Current general-purpose models are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kaini Wang , Ling Yang , Siping Zhou , Guangquan Zhou , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Shuo Li

Obtaining large pre-trained models that can be fine-tuned to new tasks with limited annotated samples has remained an open challenge for medical imaging data. While pre-trained deep networks on ImageNet and vision-language foundation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Duy M. H. Nguyen , Hoang Nguyen , Nghiem T. Diep , Tan N. Pham , Tri Cao , Binh T. Nguyen , Paul Swoboda , Nhat Ho , Shadi Albarqouni , Pengtao Xie , Daniel Sonntag , Mathias Niepert

Brain tumor diagnosis is largely dependent on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) evaluation, which requires radiologists to synthesize thousands of images across multiple 3D sequences and longitudinal studies. This process requires advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shiv Ghosh , Junayd Lateef , Chih-Hua Liu , Yannan Yu , Andreas M. Rauschecker , Madhumita Sushil

Lately, researchers in artificial intelligence have been really interested in how language and vision come together, giving rise to the development of multimodal models that aim to seamlessly integrate textual and visual information.…

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With the rapid advancement of image generation, visual text editing using natural language instructions has received increasing attention. The main challenge of this task is to fully understand the instruction and reference image, and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lichen Ma , Xiaolong Fu , Gaojing Zhou , Zipeng Guo , Ting Zhu , Yichun Liu , Yu Shi , Jason Li , Junshi Huang

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…

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Recently, the remarkable advance of the Large Language Model (LLM) has inspired researchers to transfer its extraordinary reasoning capability to both vision and language data. However, the prevailing approaches primarily regard the visual…

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Vision-language models have been extensively explored across a wide range of tasks, achieving satisfactory performance; however, their application in medical imaging remains underexplored. In this work, we propose a unified framework -…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Khai Le-Duc , Ryan Zhang , Ngoc Son Nguyen , Tan-Hanh Pham , Anh Dao , Ba Hung Ngo , Anh Totti Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy

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…

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Unified vision-language models (VLMs) promise to streamline computer vision pipelines by reframing multiple visual tasks such as classification, detection, and keypoint localization within a single language-driven interface. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Conor Wallace , Isaac Corley , Jonathan Lwowski

Visual impairment represents a major global health challenge, with multimodal imaging providing complementary information that is essential for accurate ophthalmic diagnosis. This comprehensive survey systematically reviews the latest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Xiaoling Luo , Ruli Zheng , Qiaojian Zheng , Zibo Du , Shuo Yang , Meidan Ding , Qihao Xu , Chengliang Liu , Linlin Shen

The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have unlocked their potential for multimodal tasks, where text and visual data are processed jointly. However, applying LLMs to medical imaging, particularly for chest X-rays (CXR),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Nicholas Evans , Stephen Baker , Miles Reed

Medical reports with substantial information can be naturally complementary to medical images for computer vision tasks, and the modality gap between vision and language can be solved by vision-language matching (VLM). However, current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Chen Wenting , Liu Jie , Yuan Yixuan

Images in the medical domain are fundamentally different from the general domain images. Consequently, it is infeasible to directly employ general domain Visual Question Answering (VQA) models for the medical domain. Additionally, medical…

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In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential across various medical applications. Building on this foundation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) integrate LLMs with visual models to process…

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