English
Related papers

Related papers: Barriers in Integrating Medical Visual Question An…

200 papers

In recent years, visual question answering (VQA) has attracted attention from the research community because of its highly potential applications (such as virtual assistance on intelligent cars, assistant devices for blind people, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nghia Hieu Nguyen , Duong T. D. Vo , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

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

Current vision-language models (VLMs) in medicine are primarily designed for categorical question answering (e.g., "Is this normal or abnormal?") or qualitative descriptive tasks. However, clinical decision-making often relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yongcheng Yao , Yongshuo Zong , Raman Dutt , Yongxin Yang , Sotirios A Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

Oversight AI is an emerging concept in radiology where the AI forms a symbiosis with radiologists by continuously supporting radiologists in their decision-making. Recent advances in vision-language models sheds a light on the long-standing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Sangjoon Park , Eun Sun Lee , Kyung Sook Shin , Jeong Eun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between computer vision (CV) and natural language processing(NLP), enabling Artificial Intelligence(AI) systems to answer questions about images. Since its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anupam Pandey , Deepjyoti Bodo , Arpan Phukan , Asif Ekbal

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

Recent advancements in vision-language systems have improved the accuracy of Radiological Visual Question Answering (VQA) Models. However, some challenges remain across each stage of model development: limited expert-labeled images hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Aditya Shourya , Michel Dumontier , Chang Sun

In this paper, we focus on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task, which aims to answer questions regarding different visual objects, sounds, and their associations in videos. The problem requires comprehensive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Guangyao Li , Yake Wei , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Ji-Rong Wen , Di Hu

Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) combines computer vision and natural language processing to automatically answer clinical inquiries about medical images. However, current Med-VQA datasets exhibit two significant limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bo Liu , Ke Zou , Liming Zhan , Zexin Lu , Xiaoyu Dong , Yidi Chen , Chengqiang Xie , Jiannong Cao , Xiao-Ming Wu , Huazhu Fu

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable achievements, yet the generation of non-factual responses remains prevalent in fact-seeking question answering (QA). Current multimodal fact-seeking benchmarks primarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yanling Wang , Yihan Zhao , Xiaodong Chen , Shasha Guo , Lixin Liu , Haoyang Li , Yong Xiao , Jing Zhang , Qi Li , Ke Xu

Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems play a supporting role to understand clinic-relevant information carried by medical images. The questions to a medical image include two categories: close-end (such as Yes/No question) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yunyi Liu , Zhanyu Wang , Dong Xu , Luping Zhou

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) is a crucial multimodal task in clinical decision support and telemedicine. Recent methods fail to fully leverage domain-specific medical knowledge, making it difficult to accurately associate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xianyao Zheng , Hong Yu , Hui Cui , Changming Sun , Xiangyu Li , Ran Su , Leyi Wei , Jia Zhou , Junbo Wang , Qiangguo Jin

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 imaging benchmarks often evaluate VLMs on pre-selected 2D images, slices, crops, or patches, making evaluation closer to visual recognition. Real clinical workflows impose a different burden: readers must search through complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Weixiang Shen , Chengzhi Shen , Yanzhu Hu , Che Liu , Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Xiao Han , Zongyue Li , Jingpei Wu , Min Xu , Daguang Xu , Yueming Jin , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Jiazhen Pan

We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question about the image, the task is to provide an accurate natural language answer. Mirroring real-world scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Aishwarya Agrawal , Jiasen Lu , Stanislaw Antol , Margaret Mitchell , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

In this paper, we establish a benchmark for table visual question answering, referred to as the TableVQA-Bench, derived from pre-existing table question-answering (QA) and table structure recognition datasets. It is important to note that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yoonsik Kim , Moonbin Yim , Ka Yeon Song

Medical vision-language models (VLMs) and AI agents have made significant progress in learning to analyze and reason about clinical images. However, existing medical visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks collapse model capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yixiong Chen , Wenjie Xiao , Pedro R. A. S. Bassi , Boyan Wang , Liang He , Xinze Zhou , Sezgin Er , Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci , Zongwei Zhou , Alan Yuille

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) in its ideal form lets us study reasoning in the joint space of vision and language and serves as a proxy for the AI task of scene understanding. However, most VQA benchmarks to date are focused on questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kenneth Marino , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

We introduce MultiMedEval, an open-source toolkit for fair and reproducible evaluation of large, medical vision-language models (VLM). MultiMedEval comprehensively assesses the models' performance on a broad array of six multi-modal tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Corentin Royer , Bjoern Menze , Anjany Sekuboyina