arXiv:2607. 09142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in online medical consultation, yet existing benchmarks remain poorly aligned with real clinical practice.
arXiv:2606. 28556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models and vision-language models have enabled reasoning over multimodal data, offering opportunities for clinical applications such as decision support and triaging.
Lingshu is a medical‑specialized multimodal large language model that addresses key limitations of existing medical MLLMs, such as narrow knowledge coverage, hallucinations, and weak reasoning. The authors curate a comprehensive dataset combining medical imaging, texts, and general‑domain data, then train Lingshu in multiple stages to embed medical expertise and improve task performance. They also introduce MedEvalKit, a unified evaluation framework, and demonstrate that Lingshu outperforms current open‑source multimodal models on multimodal QA, text‑based QA, and medical report generation.
arXiv:2608.22323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to diagnostic decision-making has garnered growing interest. However, existing benchmarks largely focus...
MMTClinic is a new benchmark that tests large language models on complex reasoning and question‑answering tasks involving clinical time‑series data. It combines text, medical images, and multivariate physiological signals to create 30,000 QA pairs—including 15,000 multiple‑choice and 15,000 open‑ended questions—in five languages (English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Tamil). The benchmark covers mortality prediction, heart‑rate forecasting, and SOFA score estimation, and evaluates 13 state‑of‑the‑art LLMs across zero‑shot, few‑shot, and chain‑of‑thought settings, revealing significant performance gaps across tasks, languages, and modalities.
arXiv:2607. 25933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical diagnostic evaluation should not only assess whether models can provide correct diagnoses, but also reflect the realities of clinical practice, including progressive disclosure of multimodal information, dynamic updating of diagnostic hypotheses, and continuous refinement of clinical reasoning.
MedGEN-Bench is a new benchmark for open‑ended multimodal medical generation that addresses limitations in current medical visual benchmarks, such as query‑image misalignment, closed‑ended answer spaces, and text‑centric outputs. The dataset contains 6,422 image‑text pairs across six imaging modalities, 15 clinical tasks, and 27 subtasks, including VQA, image editing, and contextual multimodal generation pairs. Evaluation combines reference‑based fidelity metrics with a structured, checklist‑guided assessment by a medical VLM judge, and preliminary results show that image‑output tasks remain unsaturated while contextual augmentation improves image‑instruction similarity.
MultiViewDx is a physician‑validated multimodal instruction dataset that links medical imaging studies with patient context and normalizes heterogeneous reports into an evidence‑linked workflow (evidence → findings → differential discussion → diagnosis). The dataset covers a wide range of imaging modalities and uses a unified image‑text retriever to ensure that instruction synthesis is grounded in source‑supported evidence. Fine‑tuned models on MultiViewDx achieve the highest average accuracy on four MedVQA benchmarks and receive the strongest overall rating on JAMA Clinical Challenge cases, with ablations confirming the importance of case‑level multi‑view organization and evidence‑linked reasoning.
EmoMed is a multimodal medical consultation agent that tailors its responses to users' emotional states—such as anxiety, confusion, or urgency—while preserving clinical accuracy. It processes text and medical images, detects affect indicators, and adjusts tone, structure, and detail accordingly. The system ensures factual reliability through a dual retrieval mechanism that combines web-based fact‑checking with an API‑connected, continuously updated medical knowledge base, and it has been evaluated across seven state‑of‑the‑art language models using comprehensive metrics, showing that emotionally adaptive responses outperform neutral baselines without sacrificing accuracy.
arXiv:2607. 07673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medicine is inherently multimodal, requiring clinicians to synthesize information across diverse data streams.
arXiv:2606. 20164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world clinical decision support requires reasoning over heterogeneous and longitudinal patient information rather than answering isolated medical questions.
DocTalkBN is a large-scale multimodal dataset of authentic expert telemedicine conversations in Bengali, comprising 557.63 hours of paired audio and text, 1,515 multi-turn patient calls, and 10,274 host–doctor question–answer exchanges across 26 medical specialties. The dataset contains 1.7 million tokens and preserves the spontaneity and contextual richness of real medical interactions in a low-resource language. Three downstream tasks—medical triage classification, advice safety evaluation, and medical named entity recognition—are constructed to benchmark large language models and encoder-based baselines, demonstrating DocTalkBN’s practical usefulness for clinically grounded reasoning.
arXiv:2511.22232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly capable in medical imaging, yet most focus on single-image settings. Clinical inter...