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MedVision: Benchmarking Quantitative Medical Image Analysis

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EyeVQA: Benchmarking Ophthalmic Vision-Language Models from Recognition to Spatial Grounding

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Pathology vision-language models (VLMs) have recently progressed rapidly and are commonly evaluated by answer accuracy on pathology VQA benchmarks. However, we dig into current evaluations and identify three overlooked issues: 1) Visual evidence is not always necessary.

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arXiv AI

Jun 6

EasyLens: A Training-Free Plug-and-Play Subtle-Lesion Representation Amplifier for Medical Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 06379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical vision-language models (VLMs) have shown increasing potential for clinical image interpretation, including lesion detection and report generation.

By Qiwei Zeng, Hao Wang, Jinghao Lin, Shuchang Ye, Yuezhe Yang, Yige Peng, Haoyuan Che, Jinman Kim, Lei Bi

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OpenMedReason: Scientific Reasoning Supervision for Medical Vision-Language Models

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Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Automated Pathology Diagnosis and Report Generation

arXiv:2609.00866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has accelerated progress in computational pathology; however, whole-slide image (WSI)-based pa...

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