The paper introduces V-REX, a specialist vision‑language model (VLM) tailored for veterinary X‑ray interpretation. By redesigning the VLM pipeline—including text tokenisation, pre‑training, grounding, and inference—the authors demonstrate that a carefully engineered model can outperform larger generalist foundation models while using far fewer parameters, data, and compute. V-REX is the first VLM capable of generating diagnostic reports for veterinary radiographs, achieving significant gains over open foundation models on this task.
arXiv:2606. 19460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the first generative foundation model for chest radiograph synthesis trained from scratch at the billion-parameter scale.
By Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro, Emma A. M. Stanley, Charles Jones, Tian Xia, Dominic C. Marshall, Laurent Renard Trich\'e, Christopher V. Cosgriff, Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Ben Glocker
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)
arXiv:2608. 03890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A clinically useful chest X-ray system must go beyond fluent report generation: it should classify findings with tunable decision thresholds, localize them spatially, and derive the anatomical measurements upon which many diagnoses depend.
By Mercy Prasanna Ranjit, Anirban Porya, Sathvik Joel, Niharika Vadlamudi, Nikhilesh Chowdary Eathamukkala, Prasanth V V, Abhyuday Kumara Swamy, Pranay Narhari Umredkar, Pradeep Narayan, Vivek Rajagopal, Tanuja Ganu
arXiv:2608.30021v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Errors in radiology reports can adversely affect patient treatment, yet automated report quality assurance remains challenging because errors are oft...
By Hermione Warr, Harry Anthony, Lilli J Freischem, Yasin Ibrahim, Daniel R McGowan, Konstantinos Kamnitsas
arXiv:2610.08813v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: X-ray image-based Radiology Report Generation (RRG) constitutes a critical research direction within medical artificial intelligence, with great potent...
By Xiao Wang, Yuxiang Zhang, Dan Xu, Yuehang Li, Shiao Wang, Bo Jiang, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian, Jin Tang