arXiv:2509. 25594v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation is fundamental to clinical decision-making, yet existing models remain fragmented.
By Bangwei Guo, Yunhe Gao, Meng Ye, Difei Gu, Yang Zhou, Leon Axel, Dimitris Metaxas
The paper introduces MedUAG, a unified medical multimodal model that supports both understanding and generation tasks. It presents MedUAGCorpus, the largest dataset of over 6 million instances across 14 imaging modalities, and MedUAGBench, a benchmark covering 12 diverse generation tasks with standardized protocols. Experiments show that MedUAG performs strongly across many medical understanding and generation tasks, setting a competitive baseline for future medical multimodal systems.
By Zijie Meng, Yuncheng Zhang, Hualiang Wang, Yitian Tang, Xiaotang Gai, Chen Shen, Songtao Jiang, Shaosheng Cao, Jian Wu, Xian Wu, Zuozhu Liu
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:2607.12896v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Medical image segmentation foundation models are expected to generalize across diverse clinical scenarios, yet existing universal methods remain fr...
By Yunzhou Li, Jiesi Hu, Yanwu Yang, Hanyang Peng, Chenfei Ye, Jianfeng Cao, Yixuan Yuan, Ting Ma
arXiv:2607. 14116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Free-form radiology reports contain rich clinical descriptions, yet converting them for reliable segmentation remains challenging due to the inherent variability of natural language.
By Anghong Du, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Colin Watts, Alejandro F. Frangi, Le Zhang
arXiv:2606. 04705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation in medical imaging is a critical yet challenging task due to data scarcity and high variability across modalities.
By Amirhossein Movahedisefat, Amirreza Fateh, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi
arXiv:2606. 17958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-supervised medical image segmentation has emerged as a dominant research problem in medical image analysis, mitigating annotation scarcity by leveraging consistency regularization on unlabeled data.
By Yuming Chen, Yuxin Xie, Tao Zhou, Yi Zhou
SEG-SAM is a unified medical image segmentation model that builds on the Segment Anything Model (SAM) by integrating semantic medical knowledge. It introduces a semantic‑aware decoder separate from SAM’s original decoder to handle both semantic segmentation of prompted objects and classification of unprompted objects. The model also incorporates key medical category characteristics from large language models via a text‑to‑vision semantic module and uses a cross‑mask spatial alignment strategy to improve overlap between predictions, achieving superior performance over existing SAM‑based and task‑specific methods.
By Shuangping Huang, Hao Liang, Qingfeng Wang, Chulong Zhong, Zijian Zhou, Miaojing Shi
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
Textual descriptions can reduce ambiguity in medical image segmentation by specifying the finding and location to be delineated. Existing text-guided methods mainly improve where image and language fe...
The paper introduces CORAL, a multimodal framework that combines spatial grounding and concept-level supervision for medical report generation. CORAL uses a prompt-driven segmentation model to localize lesions and a Concept Bottleneck module to predict multi-class clinical attributes, feeding these textual concept tokens and mask-modulated visual features into a multimodal large language model. Experiments on BUS-CoT and IU X-ray datasets show that CORAL improves diagnostic accuracy, concept consistency, and report quality compared to existing general-purpose and medical MLLMs.
By Xinyue Xu, Hongbin Lin, Juangui Xu, Hualiang Wang, Lehan Wang, Lijie Hu, Weiyang Liu, Adrian Weller, Xiaomeng Li
arXiv:2601.09879v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent progress in medical vision-language models (VLMs) has achieved strong performance on image-level text-centric tasks such as report gen...
By Yang Xing, Jiong Wu, Savas Ozdemir, Ying Zhang, Yang Yang, Wei Shao, Kuang Gong