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The escalating demand for medical image interpretation underscores the critical need for advanced artificial intelligence solutions to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of radiological diagnoses. This paper introduces CXR-PathFinder, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pimchanok Sukjai , Apiradee Boonmee

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 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 (VLMs) have progressed incredibly from research to applicability for general-purpose use cases. LLaVA-Med, a pioneering large language and vision assistant for biomedicine, can perform multi-modal biomedical…

Purpose: Echocardiographic interpretation requires video-level reasoning and guideline-based measurement analysis, which current deep learning models for cardiac ultrasound do not support. We present EchoAgent, a framework that enables…

Dermatological diagnosis requires integrating fine-grained visual perception with expert clinical knowledge. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) facilitate interactive medical image analysis, their application in dermatology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yize Liu , Siyuan Yan , Ming Hu , Lie Ju , Xieji Li , Feilong Tang , Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

Vision-language models (VLM) have markedly advanced AI-driven interpretation and reporting of complex medical imaging, such as computed tomography (CT). Yet, existing methods largely relegate clinicians to passive observers of final…

Automated interpretation of chest X-rays (CXR) is a critical task with the potential to significantly improve clinical workflow and patient care. While recent advances in multimodal foundation models have shown promise, effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Alexander Davis , Rafael Souza , Jia-Hao Lim

Longitudinal chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation requires reasoning over disease evolution across multiple patient visits, yet most existing medical VQA benchmarks focus on single images or short-horizon image pairs. We introduce MI-CXR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sunghwan Steve Cho , Yunseok Han , Jaeyoung Do

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

Recent vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong generalization and multimodal reasoning abilities in natural domains. However, their application to medical diagnosis remains limited by the lack of comprehensive and structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sheng Lu , Hao Chen , Rui Yin , Juyan Ba , Yu Zhang , Yuanzhe Li

Chest X-ray interpretation is one of the most frequently performed diagnostic tasks in medicine and a primary target for AI development, yet current vision-language models are primarily trained on datasets of paired images and reports, not…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promise in various 2D visual tasks, yet their readiness for 3D clinical diagnosis remains unclear due to stringent demands for recognition precision, reasoning ability, and domain knowledge. To…

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Chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation is a fundamental yet complex clinical task that increasingly relies on artificial intelligence for automation. However, traditional monolithic models often lack the nuanced reasoning required for trustworthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shawn Young , Lijian Xu

IMACT-CXR is an interactive multi-agent conversational tutor that helps trainees interpret chest X-rays by unifying spatial annotation, gaze analysis, knowledge retrieval, and image-grounded reasoning in a single AutoGen-based workflow. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tuan-Anh Le , Anh Mai Vu , David Yang , Akash Awasthi , Hien Van Nguyen

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) provide reasoning and inquiry guidance for physicians, yet they face notable challenges, including high maintenance costs and low generalization capability. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yue Guo , Fanfu Wang , Jianwei Lv , Xincheng Shi , Yuchen Li , Youya Wang , Yunsheng Zeng , Yujing Liu , Yunhao Qiao , Gen Li , Junfeng Wang , Bo Yuan

Clinical reasoning in medicine is a hypothesis-driven process where physicians refine diagnoses from limited information through targeted history, physical examination, and diagnostic investigations. In contrast, current medical benchmarks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christopher Chiu , Silviu Pitis , Mihaela van der Schaar

Personalized digital health support requires long-horizon, cross-dimensional reasoning over heterogeneous lifestyle signals, and recent advances in mobile sensing and large language models (LLMs) make such support increasingly feasible.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ye Tian , Zihao Wang , Onat Gungor , Xiaoran Fan , Tajana Rosing

Radiology visual question answering (RVQA) provides precise answers to questions about chest X-ray images, alleviating radiologists' workload. While recent methods based on multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and retrieval-augmented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ziruo Yi , Jinyu Liu , Ting Xiao , Mark V. Albert

Deep learning models have achieved remarkable accuracy in chest X-ray diagnosis, yet their widespread clinical adoption remains limited by the black-box nature of their predictions. Clinicians require transparent, verifiable explanations to…

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