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Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled impressive progress in vision-language understanding, yet their high computational cost limits deployment in resource-constrained scenarios such as personal…

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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has proven remarkably effective for eliciting complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs). Yet, its potential in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remains largely untapped, hindered by the…

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Faithful reasoning in medical vision-language models (VLMs) requires not only accurate predictions but also transparent alignment between textual rationales and visual evidence. While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has shown promise in…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at reasoning in linguistic space but struggle with perceptual understanding that requires dense visual perception, e.g., spatial reasoning and geometric awareness. This limitation stems from the fact that…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong promise for medical image analysis, but most remain opaque, offering predictions without the transparent, stepwise reasoning clinicians rely on. We present a framework that brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Andriy Myronenko , Dong Yang , Baris Turkbey , Mariam Aboian , Sena Azamat , Esra Akcicek , Hongxu Yin , Pavlo Molchanov , Marc Edgar , Yufan He , Pengfei Guo , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu

MLLMs MLLMs are beginning to appear in clinical workflows, but their ability to perform complex medical reasoning remains unclear. We present Med-CMR, a fine-grained Medical Complex Multimodal Reasoning benchmark. Med-CMR distinguishes from…

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promising performance in vision-language understanding and reasoning tasks. However, their visual understanding behaviors remain underexplored. A fundamental question arises: to what extent do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiaoying Xing , Chia-Wen Kuo , Li Fuxin , Yulei Niu , Fan Chen , Ming Li , Ying Wu , Longyin Wen , Sijie Zhu

As large vision language models (VLMs) advance, their capabilities in multilingual visual question answering (mVQA) have significantly improved. Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been proven to enhance interpretability and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jing Huang , Zhiya Tan , Shutao Gong , Fanwei Zeng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Changtao Miao , Huazhe Tan , Weibin Yao , Jianshu Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in visual question answering (VQA) offer a unique opportunity to enhance intra-operative decision-making, promote intuitive interactions, and significantly advancing surgical education. However, the development…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Runlong He , Danyal Z. Khan , Evangelos B. Mazomenos , Hani J. Marcus , Danail Stoyanov , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarakol Islam

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yixiong Chen , Wenjie Xiao , Pedro R. A. S. Bassi , Xinze Zhou , Sezgin Er , Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci , Zongwei Zhou , Alan Yuille

Current large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically employ a connector module to link visual features with text embeddings of large language models (LLMs) and use end-to-end training to achieve multi-modal understanding in a unified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zixian Guo , Ming Liu , Qilong Wang , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Explainability is critical for the clinical adoption of medical visual question answering (VQA) systems, as physicians require transparent reasoning to trust AI-generated diagnoses. We present MedXplain-VQA, a comprehensive framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hai-Dang Nguyen , Minh-Anh Dang , Minh-Tan Le , Minh-Tuan Le

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) show promise for scientific applications, yet open-source models still struggle with Scientific Visual Question Answering (SVQA), namely answering questions about figures from scientific papers. A key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yuyi Li , Daoyuan Chen , Zhen Wang , Yutong Lu , Yaliang Li

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have introduced a new paradigm in AI by enabling models to ``think before responding" via chain-of-thought reasoning. However, the absence of open and reproducible recipes for building reasoning-centric medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xiaoke Huang , Juncheng Wu , Hui Liu , Xianfeng Tang , Yuyin Zhou

Existing medical reasoning benchmarks for vision-language models primarily focus on analyzing a patient's condition based on an image from a single visit. However, this setting deviates significantly from real-world clinical practice, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junyi Zhang , Jia-Chen Gu , Wenbo Hu , Yu Zhou , Robinson Piramuthu , Nanyun Peng

Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable promise in generating visually grounded responses. However, their application in the medical domain is hindered by unique challenges. For instance, most VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lingxiao Luo , Bingda Tang , Xuanzhong Chen , Rong Han , Ting Chen

In recent advancements, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been fine-tuned on specific medical image datasets to address medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) tasks. However, this common approach of task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lai Wei , Wenkai Wang , Xiaoyu Shen , Yu Xie , Zhihao Fan , Xiaojin Zhang , Zhongyu Wei , Wei Chen

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

Vision Language Models (VLMs) pretrained on Internet-scale vision-language data have demonstrated the potential to transfer their knowledge to robotic learning. However, the existing paradigm encounters three critical challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Haoxuan Li , Sixu Yan , Yuhan Li , Xinggang Wang

Document visual question answering requires models not only to answer questions correctly, but also to precisely localize answers within complex document layouts. While large vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong spatial grounding,…

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