arXiv:2609.32352v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown increasing potential for medical image understanding, yet their capabilities in ophthalmic imaging r...
By Gujie Shao, Zixun Xie, Xuechun Xing, Ruixiang Wang, Ziyun Lan, Yanlin Qi, Gangyi Zhang, Yuxin Yang, Dawei Li, Haiming Tang
arXiv:2607. 07673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medicine is inherently multimodal, requiring clinicians to synthesize information across diverse data streams.
By Hyunjae Kim, Dain Kim, Pan Xiao, Serina S. Applebaum, Younjoon Chung, Xuguang Ai, Yu Yin, Roy Jiang, Yuexi Du, Yawen Wei, Yiming Kong, Tuo Guo, Zhiyuan Cao, Mengmeng Du, Yuelei Fu, Yan Hu, Rui Shi, Gui Yang, Kevin W. Jin, Yuntian Liu, Yuxuan Tian, Jonathan Marquez, Zhen Chen, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Hua Xu, Jaewoo Kang, Qingyu Chen
As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to medical AI, existing benchmarks mainly focus on evaluating their diagnosis ability over given medical images and texts, implicitly assuming that standardized medical images, texts or question-answer pairs are already prepared. However, this assumption does not hold when we apply VLMs in real clinical practice, where medical data is often raw, heterogeneous, and fragmented across different sources.
The paper introduces the Medical Data Standardization Benchmark (MDS‑Bench), which evaluates vision‑language models (VLMs) on their ability to process raw, heterogeneous medical data. Models must identify source formats, convert raw images into VLM‑compatible inputs, extract relevant text, and organize the results into structured image‑text pairs. Experiments show that even the top VLM, Gemini 3 Flash, achieves only a 48.6% end‑to‑end success rate, underscoring the challenge of raw data standardization in clinical settings.
By Xin Chen, Dongliang Xu, Cunhao Zhu, Xudong Luo, Haoyang Lyu, Xiaoxiao Sun, Serena Yeung-Levy, Yue Yao
arXiv:2606. 12169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-stakes clinical use of large vision-language models (LVLMs) requires reasoning that is grounded in visual evidence and clinical knowledge, not just correct final answers.
By Negin Baghbanzadeh, Pritam Sarkar, Michael Colacci, Abeer Badawi, Adibvafa Fallahpour, Arash Afkanpour, Leonid Sigal, Ali Etemad, Elham Dolatabadi
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.