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  1. ReMoE: Report-Guided Mixture-of-Experts for Multimodal OCT/OCTA Anomaly Detection

    Jul 31, 2026Zihan Nie, Qincheng Qiao, Muhao Xu +4Mixture of ExpertsOptical Coherence Tomography

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China · 2Key Laboratory of High Efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture, Shandong University, Ministry of Education, Jinan, China · 6Airdoc-Monash Research, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia +3

  2. A report-grounded vision-language foundation model for colonoscopy from 280000 routine reports

    Jul 30, 2026Jia Yu, Yan Zhu, Yili He +12EndoscopyMedical VLMs

    Digital Medical Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. · Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Endoscopy, Shanghai, China. · Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University, Shanghai, China. +5

  3. Mitigating Class-Tail Undercoverage in Medical Vision-Language Models under Clinical Shift

    Jul 30, 2026Mushir Akhtar, M. TanveerGroup-Conditional Conformal PredictionConformal Prediction

    Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India

  4. LoMeVQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Longitudinal Medical VQA

    Jul 30, 2026Zhilin Wu, Zhangkai Ni, Chengmei Yang +4Longitudinal Medical Image AnalysisMedical VQA

    Tongji University Shanghai, China · East China Normal University Shanghai, China

  5. DS@GT ARC at ImageCLEFmedical 2026: Architectural Diversity for Concept Detection and Foundation-Model Scaling for Caption Prediction in Medical Image Analysis

    Jul 30, 2026Bowen Wang, Youwen Zhang, Ritesh MehtaMedical Image AnalysisMedical VLMs

    Georgia Institute of Technology, North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

  6. Objective-Aligned Direct Answer SFT for Robust Multi-Frame Medical VQA

    Jul 30, 2026Site Li, Jianyi Hao, Xiaofeng LiuSupervised Fine-TuningVLM Robustness

    Yale University

  7. PanDent: Toward Comprehensive Tooth-Level Structure-Language Consistency in Dental Radiology

    Jul 29, 2026Xiaohan Li, Xinyu Liu, Chang Liu +4Radiology Report GenerationMedical Imaging

    Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom · University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China +2

  8. Position, Not Provenance: Separating Reasoning Mediation from Sycophancy in Medical Vision-Language Models

    Jul 29, 2026Supratik Bhowal, Subhrajyoti Basu, Aritra Gir Mahanta +1Medical VQAMedical VLMs

    Department of Computer Science (AIML) IEM Kolkata, School of UEMK Kolkata, India · Department of Computer Science and Business System Heritage Institute of Technology Kolkata, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani Kalyani, India

  9. Towards Grounded GI Endoscopy VQA via Multi-Task Learning on Small VLMs

    Jul 29, 2026Itbaan Safwan, Ramail Khan, Muhammad Annas Shaikh +1EndoscopyMedical VQA

    Institute of Business and Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

  10. Hearsay: Vision-Language Medical Diagnoses Without an Image

    Jul 29, 2026Siddharth VohraVLM EvaluationMedical Image Analysis

    Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Amazon Web Services AI Native Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  11. SCALPEL: Semantic Cross-modal Alignment via LLM-Powered Encoder Learning for Medical Vision-Language Representation

    Jul 29, 2026Yunzhan Fu, Enyu Bao, Xiangyu Shen +4Radiology VLMsMedical VLMs

    School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

  12. MedARC: Training-Free Adaptive Redundancy Compression of Visual Tokens for 3D Medical Vision-Language Models

    Jul 29, 2026Yitao Zhu, Mengjun Liu, Yingji Fu +2Efficient VLM InferenceMedical VLMs

    Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong · School of Integrated Circuits and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China · 3Mental Health Research Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong +1

  13. Rethinking Clinical Relevance in Chest X-ray Machine Learning: How Evaluation References Define Performance

    Jul 28, 2026Panagiotis Fytas, Ian Selby, Clemens Karner +14Chest X-Ray ClassificationMedical VLMs

    Language Technology Lab (LTL), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom · Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom · Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria +3

  14. Evaluating Multi-Turn Multimodal Diagnostic Reasoning on Challenging Real-World Clinical Cases

    Jul 28, 2026Rui Yang, Weihao Xuan, Yi Lin +23Medical VLMsMulti-Turn Dialogue Evaluation

    Center for Biomedical Data Science, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore · Duke-NUS AI + Medical Sciences Initiative, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore · Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA +24

  15. Towards Reliable Stain Transfer: An Iterative Data-Model Co-Optimization Framework Based on Multimodal Expert-Guided Assessment

    Jul 28, 2026Siyuan Xu, Yan Wang, Haofei Song +7Computational PathologyImage Style Transfer

    East China Normal University Shanghai, China · Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Shanghai, China · Hangzhou Hyperspectral Imaging Technology Co., Ltd. Hangzhou, China +1

  16. ClinFusion: A Vision-Centric Multimodal LLM System for Holistic Medical Understanding

    Jul 27, 2026Hangjie Yuan, Yichen Qian, Zhiwei Tang +21Medical Report GenerationMedical VQA

    1DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China · 3Hupan Laboratory, Hangzhou, China · 2DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group, Beijing, China +7

  17. PathSelect: Sequential Token Selection for Whole Slide Pathology

    Jul 26, 2026Jingzhi Chen, Landi He, Zehong Chen +2Efficient VLM InferenceMedical VLMs

    Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

  18. Explaining BiomedCLIP with Weighted Banzhaf Interactions Supported by Tree-Gram Parsing

    Jul 25, 2026Jakub Rymarski, Adam Rempała, Bartłomiej Sobieski +1VLM InterpretabilityShapley Value Attribution

    University of Warsaw, Poland · Centre for Credible AI, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

  19. Medical-Checklist: Assessing the Comprehension of Medical Images by Multimodal Models

    Jul 24, 2026Bannapol Limanond, Masanori Suganuma, Takayuki OkataniMedical VLMsMultimodal Model Evaluation

  20. TextSLIP: Text Self-Supervised CLIP for Medical Report Generation

    Jul 24, 2026Haoyu Jiang, Ziping CongRadiology Report GenerationSelf-Supervised Learning

    Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) · Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation · Chinese Academy of Sciences

  21. Cheap Probes Predict Expensive Training in 3D-CT Vision--Language Models

    Jul 24, 2026Renjie LiangVLM EvaluationMedical VLMs

    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

  22. Do Pathology Vision-Language Models Truly See Pathology?

    Jul 23, 2026Chengyang Zhang, Wenchuan Zhang, Bo Li +10VLM EvaluationComputational Pathology

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University · Department of Pathology and Institute of Clinical Pathology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University · Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore +2

  23. Sparse Concept Channels in Frozen 3D CT Vision Encoders

    Jul 23, 2026Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Lea Bogensperger, Christian Bluethgen +1Radiology Report Generation3D Medical Imaging

    Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland · Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, Stanford University, USA

  24. Latent-Action-Guided Video-Language Feature Learning for Surgical Instrument-Tissue Interaction Recognition

    Jul 22, 2026Jiajun Cheng, Sainan Liu, Subarna Tripathi +2Latent Action LearningSurgical Video Understanding

    Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA · Intel Corporation, USA · University of California, Merced, CA, USA

  25. PathAgentBench: Benchmarking Evidence-Seeking Vision-Language Models on Whole-Slide Pathology Image

    Jul 21, 2026Dankai Liao, Tianyi Zhang, Yufeng Wu +6VLM EvaluationMedical VLMs

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117417, Singapore

  26. Attention Without Grounding: Causal Evaluation of Visual Explanations in Medical VLMs

    Jul 20, 2026Binesh Sadanandan, Vahid BehzadanVLM EvaluationVLM Interpretability

    SAIL Lab, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA

  27. Can Experts Adapt Without Training? On Test-Time Modality Generalization in MVLMs

    Jul 18, 2026Raza Imam, Darakshan Rashid, Yutong Xie +3VLM RobustnessVLM Adaptation

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India · Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  28. Model Merging for Medical LVLMs: A Benchmark and a Winner-Take-All Approach

    Jul 17, 2026Lichao Mou, Shilan Zhang, Chunlei Li +7Low-Rank AdaptationMedical VLMs

    MedAI Technology (Wuxi) Co. Ltd. · Wuhan University of Technology · Technical University of Munich +1

  29. Cura 1T: Healthcare Foundation Model via Recursive Self-Improvement

    Jul 15, 2026Haolin Chen, Leon Qi, Steve Brown +7Medical VLMsLLM Agent Training

    actAVA AI Team

  30. Fine-Grained Vision-Language Pretraining with Organ-Conditioned Pattern Tokens for CT Understanding

    Jul 15, 2026Guoliang You, Xiaomeng ChuMedical Image ClassificationMedical VLMs

    University of Pennsylvania · Yale University