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MedGround: Bridging the Evidence Gap in Medical Vision-Language Models with Verified Grounding Data

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 19

Scalable Training of Spatially Grounded 2D Vision-Language Models for Radiology

arXiv:2606. 20477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study how to train visually grounded vision-language models (VLMs) for radiology without manual spatial annotations.

By Yusuf Salcan (Computer Vision Group, University of Freiburg, Germany, CRIION-AI Lab, Freiburg, Germany), Simon Ging (Computer Vision Group, University of Freiburg, Germany, Adaptive & Agentic AI), Robin Schirrmeister (Department of Radiology, Medical Center -- University of Freiburg, Germany), Philipp Arnold (Department of Radiology, Medical Center -- University of Freiburg, Germany), Elmar Kotter (Department of Radiology, Medical Center -- University of Freiburg, Germany), Behzad Bozorgtabar (Adaptive & Agentic AI), Thomas Brox (Computer Vision Group, University of Freiburg, Germany)

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arXiv AI

Aug 28

From Reasoning to Pixels: Grounded Medical Multimodal LLMs for VQA and Segmentation

The paper introduces MedREAL, a unified framework that aligns linguistic reasoning with spatial grounding for medical visual question answering and segmentation. MedREAL employs Seg Anchored Reasoning Pooling (SARP) to extract semantic evidence from segmentation tokens and a Reasoning-to-Visual (R2V) fusion mechanism to integrate these features into a segmentation pipeline. Using the newly created MedRAVS-13K dataset, MedREAL achieves superior performance, reporting 68.49% gIoU and 70.47% cIoU, and generates evidence masks that consistently match textual diagnoses.

By Haowen Gu, Gensheng Pei, Junzhu Mao, Qiong Wang, Mingwu Ren, Yazhou Yao

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 1

Medical Image Spatial Grounding with Semantic Sampling

arXiv:2603. 14579v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision language models (VLMs) have shown significant promise in visual grounding for images as well as videos.

By Andrew Seohwan Yu, Mohsen Hariri, Kunio Nakamura, Mingrui Yang, Xiaojuan Li, Vipin Chaudhary

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arXiv Computer Vision

Sep 10

RAU: Reference-based Anatomical Understanding with Vision Language Models

arXiv:2509.22404v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Anatomical understanding, which is the ability to identify, localize, or segment anatomical structures, is critical in medical image analysis; howe...

By Yiwei Li, Yikang Liu, Jiaqi Guo, Lin Zhao, Zheyuan Zhang, Xiao Chen, Boris Mailhe, Ankush Mukherjee, Terrence Chen, Shanhui Sun

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arXiv Computation and Language

2d ago

MIS-VQA: An Annotation-Driven Surgical Vision-Language Dataset for Complex Surgical Understanding

arXiv:2610.34210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern surgical AI increasingly requires multimodal understanding rather than isolated perception, yet existing datasets remain largely limited to si...

By Mohamed Hamdy, Iheb Zouari, Fatmaelzahraa Ahmed, Muraam Abdel-Ghani, Muhammed Arsalan, Ponnuthurai Suganthan, Khalid Al-Jalham, Abdulaziz Al-Ali, Shidin Balakrishnan

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arXiv AI

Aug 11

MedPixel: A Unified Pixel-Language Model for Medical Reasoning and Segmentation

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

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