arXiv Computation and Language August 21, 2026 By Yunseo Lee, Hyun Jun Kim, Heeseung Shin, Changwon Lim

Towards Clinically Faithful Medical Image Captioning via Enhanced Vision-Language Alignment

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arXiv:2608. 19825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image captioning is a technique that accelerates early-stage diagnostic workflows and enhances the interpretability of medical diagnostic AI systems.

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