arXiv AI By Zijie Meng, Yuncheng Zhang, Hualiang Wang, Yitian Tang, Xiaotang Gai, Chen Shen, Songtao Jiang, Shaosheng Cao, Jian Wu, Xian Wu, Zuozhu Liu

MedUAG: Unified Understanding and Generation for Medical Multimodal Models

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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.

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