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Ultrasound robots are increasingly used in medical diagnostics and early disease screening. However, current ultrasound robots lack the intelligence to understand human intentions and instructions, hindering autonomous ultrasound scanning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-20 Huan Xu , Jinlin Wu , Guanglin Cao , Zhen Lei , Zhen Chen , Hongbin Liu

Electrocardiography (ECG) offers critical cardiovascular insights, such as identifying arrhythmias and myocardial ischemia, but enabling automated systems to answer complex clinical questions directly from ECG signals (ECG-QA) remains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Hung Manh Pham , Jialu Tang , Aaqib Saeed , Dong Ma

Artificial Intelligence models have demonstrated significant success in diagnosing skin diseases, including cancer, showing the potential to assist clinicians in their analysis. However, the interpretability of model predictions must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Max Torop , Masih Eskandar , Nicholas Kurtansky , Jinyang Liu , Jochen Weber , Octavia Camps , Veronica Rotemberg , Jennifer Dy , Kivanc Kose

Speech therapy is essential for rehabilitating speech disorders caused by neurological impairments such as stroke. However, traditional manual and computer-assisted systems are limited in real-time accessibility and articulatory motion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yudong Yang , Xiaokang Liu , Shaofeng zhao , Rongfeng Su , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

Robotic ultrasound offers advantages over free-hand scanning, including improved reproducibility and reduced operator dependency. In clinical practice, US acquisition relies heavily on the sonographer's experience and situational judgment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuan Bi , Yiping Zhou , Pei Liu , Feng Li , Zhongliang Jiang , Nassir Navab

Large language models (LLMs) enable waveform-to-text ECG interpretation and interactive clinical questioning, yet most ECG-LLM systems still rely on weak signal-text alignment and retrieval without explicit physiological or causal…

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…

The clinical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical diagnostics is critically hampered by its black-box nature, which prevents clinicians from verifying the rationale behind automated decisions. To overcome this fundamental…

Ultrasound is a cornerstone of emergency and hepatobiliary imaging, yet its interpretation remains highly operator-dependent and time-sensitive. Here, we present a multitask vision-language agent (VLM) developed to assist with comprehensive…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced medical visual question answering, yet their performance in ultrasound remains suboptimal. In clinical practice, sonographers explicitly focus on lesion regions to formulate reports,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yue Zhou , Erxuan Wu , Yikang Sun , Hongjoo Lee , Yuan Bi , Huixiong Xu , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Reasoning has become a defining capability of modern foundation models, yet its development in the audio modality remains limited. Audio poses challenges that are distinct from those of text and vision. It is continuous, temporally dense,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Zhihan Guo , Wenqian Cui , Guan-Ting Lin , Daxin Tan , Jingyao Li , Qiyong Zheng , Dingdong Wang , Jing Xiong , Han Shi , Jiaya Jia , Irwin King

This paper presents an innovative large language model (LLM) agent framework for enhancing diagnostic accuracy in simulated clinical environments using the AgentClinic benchmark. The proposed automatic correction enables doctor agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Abhishek Dutta , Yen-Che Hsiao

Agentic systems offer a potential path to solve complex clinical tasks through collaboration among specialized agents, augmented by tool use and external knowledge bases. Nevertheless, for chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation, prevailing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kai Zhang , Corey D Barrett , Jangwon Kim , Lichao Sun , Tara Taghavi , Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Deep neural networks for medical image diagnosis often achieve high predictive accuracy while relying on spurious or clinically irrelevant visual cues, limiting their trustworthiness in practice. Post-hoc explanation methods are widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zubair Faruqui , Rahul Dubey

Medical ultrasound imaging relies heavily on high-quality signal processing to provide reliable and interpretable image reconstructions. Conventionally, reconstruction algorithms where derived from physical principles. These algorithms rely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Ben Luijten , Nishith Chennakeshava , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) hold promise for biomedical reasoning, but current benchmarks fail to capture the complexity of real-world clinical workflows. Existing evaluations primarily assess unimodal, decontextualized…

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) has recently garnered attention as a prominent research focus. By harnessing powerful LLM, it facilitates a transition of conversational generative AI from unimodal text to performing multimodal tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xuechen Guo , Wenhao Chai , Shi-Yan Li , Gaoang Wang

While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced automated ECG interpretation, they still face two key limitations: (1) insufficient multimodal synergy between time series signals and visual ECG representations, and (2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiang Lan , Feng Wu , Kai He , Qinghao Zhao , Shenda Hong , Mengling Feng

We present ECG-Expert-QA, a comprehensive multimodal dataset for evaluating diagnostic capabilities in electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation. It combines real-world clinical ECG data with systematically generated synthetic cases, covering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Xu Wang , Jiaju Kang , Puyu Han , Yubao Zhao , Qian Liu , Liwenfei He , Lingqiong Zhang , Lingyun Dai , Yongcheng Wang , Jie Tao

Large Language Models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly important role in physics research by assisting with symbolic manipulation, numerical computation, and scientific reasoning. However, ensuring the reliability, transparency, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yinggan Xu , Hana Kimlee , Yijia Xiao , Di Luo