arXiv:2601.15891v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-language pretraining has driven progress in medical image representation learning, but it depends on paired image-text data and can inherit...
By Anas Anwarul Haq Khan, Mariam Husain, Pratik Jalan, Kshitij Jadhav
arXiv:2609.39266v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Fine-grained vision-language alignment in chest radiography enables zero-shot classification, grounding, and segmentation without task-specific annotat...
By Qixing Zhao, Jinpeng Li
Med-AR introduces two autoregressive vision‑language models, Med‑AR‑8B and Med‑AR‑2B, pretrained on structured radiology reports, abnormality‑focused text, and region annotations to address long‑tailed chest X‑ray classification. The models outperform existing contrastive, self‑supervised, and supervised encoders—including Med‑CLIP, CheXFound, EVA‑Base, ARK, and BioViL‑T—across PadChest, MIMIC‑CXR, and CheXpert, achieving higher mean AUROC and AUPRC for head, medium, and tail findings and lower excess area under the risk‑coverage curve. Med‑AR also demonstrates improved selective‑prediction performance, with Med‑AR‑8B raising tail‑label mean AUPRC on MIMIC‑CXR from 0.1033 to 0.1441 and Med‑AR‑2B delivering the strongest discrimination on PadChest.
By Janhavi Prabhu, Sahil, Akshay V, Shivam Shukla, Manoj Tadepalli, Preetham Putha
arXiv:2608.24281v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reducing annotation requirements remains a key challenge in developing robust medical object detectors. To address this, Vision-Language (VL) object de...
By Sheethal Bhat, Bogdan Georgescu, Awais Mansoor, Mathias Zinnen, Pranjal Sahu, Florin C. Ghesu, Sasa Grbic, Andreas Maier
The paper introduces SCCL-DT, a method that improves zero‑shot chest X‑ray diagnosis by addressing semantic conflicts in contrastive vision‑language pre‑training. It uses adaptive thresholds derived from exponential‑moving‑average statistics to hard‑mask conflicting pairs, and combines two teachers—an inclusive and a consensus rule—through distillation into a single student model. On five public chest X‑ray benchmarks, SCCL‑DT achieves a mean zero‑shot AUC of 0.850, outperforming the best baseline at 0.837.
By Ting Liu, Haoran Lai, HaobinChen, Ming Liu, S Kevin Zhou
arXiv:2510. 15042v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the 3D medical image domain, vision-language pre-training is used to create vision-language encoders (VLEs) that can support radiologists by retrieving patients with similar abnormalities, predicting likelihoods of abnormality, or, with downstream adaptation, generating radiological reports.
By Tassilo Wald, Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci, Yuan Gao, Sam Bond-Taylor, Harshita Sharma, Maximilian Ilse, Cynthia Lo, Olesya Melnichenko, Anton Schwaighofer, Noel C. F. Codella, Maria Teodora Wetscherek, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Panagiotis Korfiatis, Valentina Salvatelli, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Fernando P\'erez-Garc\'ia