arXiv:2607. 22771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Picking the frozen image encoder for a 3D~CT vision--language model (VLM), together with the token-compression scheme on top of it, is a search over many candidates.
By Renjie Liang
The paper introduces TopKSigLIP, a vision‑language model tailored for mammography that tackles two key challenges: high‑resolution imaging and homogeneous radiology reports. It replaces standard CLIP training with a TopK‑Patch module that selects sparse high‑resolution patches likely to contain lesions, and a Sup‑sigmoid loss that uses soft labels from structured data instead of contrastive loss. TopKSigLIP outperforms existing open‑source mammography and general medical VLMs on zero‑shot tasks such as density assessment, BI‑RADS classification, finding subtyping, and cancer prediction, while also providing better lesion localization than Grad‑CAM.
By Young Seok Jeon, Beatrice Brown-Mulry, Rohan Satya Isaac, Anjana Dissanayaka, Theo Dapamede, Mohammadreza Chavoshi, Judy Gichoya, Hari Trivedi
arXiv:2607. 13682v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiative Gaussian splatting reconstructs sparse-view CT fast and accurately, and recent work attaches per-Gaussian posteriors to yield per-voxel uncertainty maps.
By Chulin Zhao, Yiran Xu, Shu Liu
Limited-angle digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) reconstructs a volume from a few low-dose projections over a narrow arc. At a representative nine-view, $25^{\circ}$ protocol more than 98% of image space is unmeasured, so a learned prior must supply structure in the missing wedge.
arXiv:2609.16551v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for labelled medical images, but the choice of pretext objective remains unclear for lung ultrasound...
By Moein Heidari, Junbo Rao, Jai Choraria, Wenjin Chen, David J. Foran, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
arXiv:2608.21386v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Given a task described by a few examples, how should a model be specialized to it? Four mechanisms are available -- zero-shot, in-context attention,...
By John C. Howell
Self-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for labelled medical images, but the choice of pretext objective remains unclear for lung ultrasound (LUS). Contrastive learning, masked reconstructi...
arXiv:2606. 15910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A vision-language model can answer a question about a chest radiograph or a pathology slide fluently and confidently while barely using the image, relying instead on language priors.
By Reza Khanmohammadi, Kundan Thind, Mohammad M. Ghassemi
arXiv:2607. 22771v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building a 3D CT vision language model begins with a choice of which image encoder to build on.
By Renjie Liang, Zijian Xu
arXiv:2608. 03890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A clinically useful chest X-ray system must go beyond fluent report generation: it should classify findings with tunable decision thresholds, localize them spatially, and derive the anatomical measurements upon which many diagnoses depend.
By Mercy Prasanna Ranjit, Anirban Porya, Sathvik Joel, Niharika Vadlamudi, Nikhilesh Chowdary Eathamukkala, Prasanth V V, Abhyuday Kumara Swamy, Pranay Narhari Umredkar, Pradeep Narayan, Vivek Rajagopal, Tanuja Ganu
arXiv:2608. 08713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models offer a promising path toward automating radiology report generation, but applying them to full 3D CT volumes poses substantial computational challenges.
By Jonathan Suprijadi, Raphael Stock, Moritz Langenberg, David Zimmerer, Kim-Celine Kahl, Stefan Denner, Yannick Kirchhoff, Karol Gotkowski, Maximilian Rokuss, Jeremias Traub, Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich, Klaus Maier-Hein
The paper investigates whether panels of vision‑language models (VLMs) can reliably judge image aesthetics. It shows that a panel of holistic judges rarely outperforms its best member, but when each model scores images on five rubric‑defined dimensions and these dimension scores are fused across model families, the panel consistently beats the best single VLM on two datasets (EVA and PARA). The study demonstrates that the value of a panel depends on the type of input it receives, and that dimension‑based fusion yields measurable gains at the cost of additional labeling and API usage.
By Amit Jadhav, Shaurya Beriwala, Beomjin Kim