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. 04515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Slice-based MLLMs leverage mature 2D encoders by representing 3D volumes as sequences of 2D slices.
By Zhenyu Yi, Qiang Hu, Zhenhao Li, Jiaxuan Zhao, Yusong Sun, Lichi Zhang
arXiv:2606. 03879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As foundation models scale toward fusing more heterogeneous visual streams, understanding how diverse encoders interact under joint training becomes a prerequisite for principled design.
By Wei Ding, Yudong Zhang, Ruobing Xie, Xingwu Sun, Jiansheng Chen, Yu Wang
arXiv:2607. 20993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models are becoming increasingly dominant in 3D medical image interpretation, but we rarely know which internal units encode clinical findings or where that information lives in the representation.
By Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Lea Bogensperger, Christian Bluethgen, Michael Krauthammer
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
arXiv:2607. 09438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) reliably improves reasoning in large language models, but whether it transfers to small open vision-language models remains unclear.
By Spiros Baxevanakis, Peng-Jian Yang