arXiv:2608. 13690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation is still largely treated as a vision-only problem, although clinical interpretation often relies on textual knowledge of anatomy, location, appearance, and surrounding context.
By Rafi Ibn Sultan, Hui Zhu, Chengyin Li, Dongxiao Zhu
arXiv:2608. 07340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Registration-based Few-shot medical image segmentation (RFMIS) aims to generate pseudo-labels for unlabeled images by warping a labeled image through registration.
By Jia Wang, Jiaming Cai, Zunying Hu, Zhanjie Wu, Jinyuan Liu, Hua Cheng, Yun Peng
Medical image segmentation relies on the ability of encoder-decoder architectures to translate rich feature representations into accurate pixel-level predictions under challenging conditions such as low contrast, structural ambiguity, and scale variability. While recent advances in large-scale pretraining and transformer-based encoders have substantially improved feature extraction, segmentation accuracy remains constrained by decoder design, particularly in terms of cross-scale alignment, contextual integration, and boundary preservation.
arXiv:2608. 10635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical Vision-Language Models (Med-VLMs) excel at verbalizing visual content, yet precise visual perception, segmentation, and grounding remain challenging.
By Yuan Wang, Hualiang Wang, Yixin Chen, Songtao Jiang, Shujian Gao, Jiaming Lin, Siming Fu, Jian Wu, Zuozhu Liu
arXiv:2607. 24743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold immense potential to revolutionize clinical practice, yet deploying them in the medical domain is fundamentally a vision-centric challenge: models must absorb knowledge from heterogeneous 2D and 3D medical images, and evaluation protocols must align with radiologists' clinical practice and provide an accurate, fine-grained and factualness-driven assessment.
By Hangjie Yuan, Yichen Qian, Zhiwei Tang, Xianzhe Xu, Lirong Wu, Sicheng Yang, Jinwang Wang, Pengju Wang, Zhitao Zeng, Yizeng Han, Yan Xing, Shengxuan Luo, Tao Feng, Qing Xie, Weigen Yao, Yi Yang, Zuozhu Liu, Jiasheng Tang, Shaocheng Wang, Jitao Wang, Jiahong Dong, Weihua Chen, Feng Xu, Fan Wang
arXiv:2607. 27154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: CT vision-language foundation models have demonstrated promising performance across downstream tasks, but are typically trained with whole-volume representations that dilute fine-grained anatomical signals.
By Roshan Kenia, Stephanie L McNamara, William Lotter
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold immense potential to revolutionize clinical practice, yet deploying them in the medical domain is fundamentally a vision-centric challenge: models must absorb knowledge from heterogeneous 2D and 3D medical images, and evaluation protocols must align with radiologists' clinical practice and provide an accurate, fine-grained and factualness-driven assessment. In this paper, we introduce ClinFusion, a vision-centric MLLM designed for holistic medical understanding that systematically addresses these limitations.
arXiv:2512. 21414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent tool-use frameworks powered by vision-language models (VLMs) improve image understanding by grounding model predictions with specialized tools.
By Christina Liu, Alan Q. Wang, Joy Hsu, Jiajun Wu, Ehsan Adeli
arXiv:2608. 04472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development of foundation models (FMs) is crucial for advancing endoscopic image analysis.
By Zhenyu Yi, Jianwei Xu, Yue Hu, Zhongwei Qiu, Sijing Li, Liang Huang, Bin Lv, Ling Zhang, Yingda Xia
arXiv:2607. 04344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate remarkable generic capabilities, their clinical reasoning in specialized domains like ocular surface diseases (OSDs) is severely hindered by a paucity of high-fidelity, multimodal instruction-tuning data.
By Hao Wei, Wenjin Qi, Dasen Dai, Minqing Zhang, Wu Yuan
arXiv:2608. 11335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical text can narrow down what to segment, but recent text-guided designs emphasize spatial alignment while overlooking frequency content that governs texture and boundaries.
By Md Maklachur Rahman, Tracy Hammond
arXiv:2605. 25402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised pre-training paradigm has gained increasing prominence for learning transferable representations in medical imaging, yet existing methods for ultrasound (US) images operate at the image or frame level, overlooking the anatomical context for clinical-aligned representation learning.
By Chunzheng Zhu, Yijun Wang, Jianxin Lin, Feng Wang, Hongwei Wang, Lei Zhao, Shengli Li, Kenli Li