VIPER is the first expert‑curated benchmark for vision‑language models in veterinary toxicologic pathology, comprising 1,251 questions linked to 419 H&E‑stained rat histology images across seven organ systems. The benchmark includes multiple‑choice, KPrim, and free‑text formats and was validated by board‑certified veterinary pathologists. Evaluation of 16 models—spanning veterinary‑specific, human pathology‑specialized, and general‑purpose models—reveals a significant domain gap, a tendency for frontier models to over‑diagnose normal tissue, and underscores the importance of domain‑specific training for accurate visual predictions.
arXiv:2602. 02124v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Drug-induced toxicity is a leading cause of preclinical and early-clinical failure, making early detection critical.
arXiv:2606. 28392v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate lesion segmentation in PET/CT is critical for oncology, yet remains challenging because physiologic tracer uptake and artifacts can mimic malignant signal.
HERO (Histology Encoder for Robust Representation in Oncology) is a ViT‑G/14 pathology foundation model trained with DINO and iBOT objectives and refined using high‑resolution Gram anchoring on a 500‑million‑tile corpus from about 575,000 clinical whole‑slide images. It demonstrates superior robustness to center, scanner, and stain variation compared to other state‑of‑the‑art foundation models, while maintaining competitive performance on tile‑level classification, segmentation, and gene‑expression prediction. Across 39 slide‑level clinical tasks, HERO ranks first on average and achieves the best average rank across six benchmark frameworks under an equal‑weighted analysis.
Pathology vision-language models (VLMs) have recently progressed rapidly and are commonly evaluated by answer accuracy on pathology VQA benchmarks. However, we dig into current evaluations and identify three overlooked issues: 1) Visual evidence is not always necessary.
arXiv:2409.16183v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Radiology is a vital and complex component of modern clinical workflow and covers many tasks. Recently, vision-language (VL) foundation models in m...
arXiv:2609.00866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has accelerated progress in computational pathology; however, whole-slide image (WSI)-based pa...
arXiv:2609.32352v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown increasing potential for medical image understanding, yet their capabilities in ophthalmic imaging r...
arXiv:2606. 06983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational pathology requires visual representations that transfer across diverse clinical endpoints and remain robust to variation in magnification, staining, scanner type, slide preparation, and input resolution.
The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has accelerated progress in computational pathology; however, whole-slide image (WSI)-based pathology report generation remains limited by the sc...
arXiv:2606. 06696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision and language models (VLMs) hold immense promise to transform biomedical imaging workflows, from detecting lesions in chest X-rays to profiling cellular features in microscopy.
MetaStructAtlas is a large-scale dataset for whole-body PET/CT interpretation that combines multimodal imaging with integrated anatomical, metabolic, and semantic annotations. It includes 490 co-registered 3D PET and CT volumes, 50,470 organ-level segmentation masks, and grounded radiology reports. The accompanying MetaStructVQA benchmark offers 100,565 QA pairs that link diagnostic queries to visual evidence across modalities, enabling interactive 3D grounded visual question-answering.
arXiv:2607. 03253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) staining constitutes the primary entry point in routine diagnostic workflows, computer-aided diagnosis from whole-slide H&E images is of particular clinical relevance.