arXiv:2606. 06407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical imaging artificial intelligence has achieved strong performance in isolated image interpretation, but remains poorly aligned with radiological practice, where diagnosis and follow-up rely on comparison across prior studies and analogous reference cases.
By Tengfei Zhang, Ziheng Zhao, Lisong Dai, Xiaoman Zhang, Pengcheng Qiu, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie
arXiv:2511. 12110v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite notable progress in text-guided medical image segmentation nowadays, these methods are limited to single-round dialogues and fail to support multi-round reasoning, which is important for medical education scenarios.
By Qinyue Tong, Ziqian Lu, Jun Liu, Rui Zuo, Zheming Lu, Yueming Jin
arXiv:2606. 12169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-stakes clinical use of large vision-language models (LVLMs) requires reasoning that is grounded in visual evidence and clinical knowledge, not just correct final answers.
By Negin Baghbanzadeh, Pritam Sarkar, Michael Colacci, Abeer Badawi, Adibvafa Fallahpour, Arash Afkanpour, Leonid Sigal, Ali Etemad, Elham Dolatabadi
arXiv:2607. 23794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathological diagnosis is inherently multi-scale, requiring the integration of global tissue architecture at low magnification with cellular morphology at higher magnification.
By Chi Phan, Tianyi Zhang, Yufeng Wu, Qiaochu Xue, Jiajie Zhang, Linghan Cai, Zeyu Liu, Sudong Wang, Yueming Jin, Dan Hu
arXiv:2606. 17412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathological images are inherently multi-scale, requiring pathologists to integrate evidence from global tissue architecture at low magnification to cellular morphology at higher magnification for accurate diagnosis.
By Chi Phan, Tianyi Zhang, Qiaochu Xue, Yufeng Wu, Dan Hu, Zeyu Liu, Sudong Wang, Yueming Jin
Pathological diagnosis is inherently multi-scale, requiring the integration of global tissue architecture at low magnification with cellular morphology at higher magnification. However, existing pathology benchmarks and vision-language models (VLMs) are still largely developed under single-scale settings, limiting their ability to learn clinically meaningful multi-magnification reasoning.
In clinical practice, patients often undergo multiple imaging examinations over successive visits, yielding longitudinal data. Modeling such temporal information is crucial for reliable assessment of disease progression and treatment response.
arXiv:2606. 03564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning segmentation aims to segment target objects described by complex language through joint visual-textual reasoning.
By Yifan Cao, Xiaocui Yang, Faxian Wan, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang
arXiv:2605. 18419v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can couple visual perception with open-ended clinical reasoning, making them attractive for computational histopathology.
By Franciskus Xaverius Erick, Johanna Paula M\"uller, Bernhard Kainz
arXiv:2512. 14157v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent medical MLLMs have made significant progress in generating step-by-step textual reasoning chains.
By Yankai Jiang, Yujie Zhang, Peng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Yichen Li, Jintai Chen, Xiaoming Shi, Shihui Zhen
arXiv:2604. 09757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical vision--language models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for medical visual question answering (VQA), yet their reasoning remains largely text-centric: images are encoded once as static context, and subsequent inference is dominated by language.
By Suyang Xi, Songtao Hu, Yuxiang Lai, Wangyun Dan, Yaqi Liu, Shansong Wang, Xiaofeng Yang
arXiv:2608. 09818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable medical image understanding requires models to connect clinical language and visual reasoning with pixel-level grounding.
By Haoyu Yang, Meixing Shi, Zengjie Chen, Haoran Sun, Haitao Leng, Xiaoming Shi, Yuxiang Cai, Yankai Jiang