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Retinal diseases spanning a broad spectrum can be effectively identified and diagnosed using complementary signals from multimodal data. However, multimodal diagnosis in ophthalmic practice is typically challenged in terms of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lu Zhang , Huizhen Yu , Zuowei Wang , Fu Gui , Yatu Guo , Wei Zhang , Mengyu Jia

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly emphasize complex understanding of various visual elements, including multiple objects, text information, and spatial relations. Their development for comprehensive visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaotong Li , Fan Zhang , Haiwen Diao , Yueze Wang , Xinlong Wang , Ling-Yu Duan

The development of multi-label deep learning models for retinal disease classification is often hindered by the scarcity of large, expertly annotated clinical datasets due to patient privacy concerns and high costs. The recent release of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jerry Cao-Xue , Tien Comlekoglu , Keyi Xue , Guanliang Wang , Jiang Li , Gordon Laurie

Instance-level image retrieval in fashion is a challenging issue owing to its increasing importance in real-scenario visual fashion search. Cross-domain fashion retrieval aims to match the unconstrained customer images as queries for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Chen Bao , Xudong Zhang , Jiazhou Chen , Yongwei Miao

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

Objective: Ophthalmological pathologies such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration are major causes of blindness and vision impairment. There is a need for novel decision support tools that can simplify and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Or Abramovich , Hadas Pizem , Jan Van Eijgen , Ilan Oren , Joshua Melamed , Ingeborg Stalmans , Eytan Z. Blumenthal , Joachim A. Behar

Any entity in the visual world can be hierarchically grouped based on shared characteristics and mapped to fine-grained sub-categories. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on coarse-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hulingxiao He , Zijun Geng , Yuxin Peng

This paper addresses the emerging task of recognizing multiple retinal diseases from wide-field (WF) and ultra-wide-field (UWF) fundus images. For an effective use of existing large amount of labeled color fundus photo (CFP) data and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Qijie Wei , Jingyuan Yang , Bo Wang , Jinrui Wang , Jianchun Zhao , Xinyu Zhao , Sheng Yang , Niranchana Manivannan , Youxin Chen , Dayong Ding , Jing Zhou , Xirong Li

Algorithmic detection of facial palsy offers the potential to improve current practices, which usually involve labor-intensive and subjective assessments by clinicians. In this paper, we present a multimodal fusion-based deep learning model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Heng Yim Nicole Oo , Min Hun Lee , Jeong Hoon Lim

This paper attacks an emerging challenge of multi-modal retinal disease recognition. Given a multi-modal case consisting of a color fundus photo (CFP) and an array of OCT B-scan images acquired during an eye examination, we aim to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xirong Li , Yang Zhou , Jie Wang , Hailan Lin , Jianchun Zhao , Dayong Ding , Weihong Yu , Youxin Chen

Deep neural networks show great potential for automating various visual quality inspection tasks in manufacturing. However, their applicability is limited in more volatile scenarios, such as remanufacturing, where the inspected products and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Johannes C. Bauer , Paul Geng , Stephan Trattnig , Petr Dokládal , Rüdiger Daub

In light of the expanding population, an automated framework of disease detection can assist doctors in the diagnosis of ocular diseases, yields accurate, stable, rapid outcomes, and improves the success rate of early detection. The work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Md. Aiyub Ali , Md. Shakhawat Hossain , Md. Kawar Hossain , Subhadra Soumi Sikder , Sharun Akter Khushbu , Mirajul Islam

We present DualFocus, a novel framework for integrating macro and micro perspectives within multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) to enhance vision-language task performance. Current MLLMs typically singularly focus on inputs at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yuhang Cao , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Multimodal medical image fusion plays an instrumental role in several areas of medical image processing, particularly in disease recognition and tumor detection. Traditional fusion methods tend to process each modality independently before…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Lin Liu , Xinxin Fan , Chulong Zhang , Jingjing Dai , Yaoqin Xie , Xiaokun Liang

Retinal diseases can cause irreversible vision loss in both eyes if not diagnosed and treated early. Since retinal diseases are so complicated, retinal imaging is likely to show two or more abnormalities. Current deep learning techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Syed S. Naqvi , Imran Razzak , Erik Meijering

Ophthalmic image segmentation serves as a critical foundation for ocular disease diagnosis. Although fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly employed for segmentation, they are constrained by inductive biases and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zunjie Xiao , Xiaoqing Zhang , Risa Higashita , Jiang Liu

Recent advancements in pre-trained large foundation models (LFM) have yielded significant breakthroughs across various domains, including natural language processing and computer vision. These models have been particularly impactful in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Ziqin Lin , Heng Li , Zinan Li , Huazhu Fu , Jiang Liu

Despite the promise of foundation models in medical AI, current systems remain limited - they are modality-specific and lack transparent reasoning processes, hindering clinical adoption. To address this gap, we present EVLF-FM, a multimodal…

Ultra-widefield (UWF) imaging is a promising modality that captures a larger retinal field of view compared to traditional fundus photography. Previous studies showed that deep learning (DL) models are effective for detecting retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Justin Engelmann , Alice D. McTrusty , Ian J. C. MacCormick , Emma Pead , Amos Storkey , Miguel O. Bernabeu

Automating medical reports for retinal images requires a sophisticated blend of visual pattern recognition and deep clinical knowledge. Current Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often struggle in specialized medical fields where data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nagur Shareef Shaik , Teja Krishna Cherukuri , Dong Hye Ye