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  1. HeiCo-FOCUS: A Clinically Grounded Dataset for Long-Context Video Understanding

    Oct 7, 2026Leon Mayer, Lucas Luttner, Patrick Godau +42Long-Video UnderstandingSurgical Video Understanding

  2. A doctrine-grounded visual question answering dataset for Tactical Combat Casualty Care

    Oct 5, 2026Junseob Kim, Jade Chng, Ayman Ali +5Medical VQAVideo QA

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA · Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA +3

  3. MedPrune: Topology-Efficient Multimodal Multi-Agent Communication Evolution for Medical VQA Tasks

    Oct 5, 2026Jiuheng Wan, Runze Li, Chen Chen +5Medical VQAMulti-Agent Collaboration

    School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology · Nanjing University · Guangdong University of Finance and Economics +2

  4. BrainTRACE: Tracing Longitudinal, Multimodal, and Volumetric Evidence in Brain MRI Clinical Reasoning

    Oct 5, 2026Qizhen Lan, Mengchen Fan, Hang Zhang +5VLM Evaluation3D Medical Imaging

    University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · University of Alabama at Birmingham · University of Pittsburgh +3

  5. CineMR: Tool-Integrated Vision-Language Reasoning for Quantitative Cardiac MRI Assessment

    Oct 1, 2026Kunyang Li, Hai Nguyen, Joshua Lowe +6Tool Use in VLMsMedical VQA

    Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Central Florida · Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida · Nemours Cardiac Center, Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida +1

  6. Learning Where to Look: Anatomical Grounding and Guided Attention for Cardiac MRI Vision-Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Bangwei Guo, Xiao Chen, Boris Mailhe +8Medical VQAMedical Image Grounding

    Rutgers University, NJ, USA · United Imaging Intelligence, Boston, MA, USA · University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX, USA +1

  7. CRAFT: Causal Responsibility and Failure Tracing in Medical Vision Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Chunzheng Zhu, Jiaqi Zeng, Hongbo Zhao +3Vision-Language ModelsMedical VQA

    Hunan University · University of Hong Kong

  8. See, Measure, and Reason: Learning Visually Grounded Reasoning in Pathology

    Sep 28, 2026Chengyang Zhang, Wenchuan Zhang, Bo Li +8Computational PathologyMedical VQA

    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 +1

  9. EyeVQA: Benchmarking Ophthalmic Vision-Language Models from Recognition to Spatial Grounding

    Sep 26, 2026Gujie Shao, Zixun Xie, Xuechun Xing +7VLM EvaluationMedical VQA

  10. Representation-guided in-context learning for medical image interpretation with multimodal large language models

    Sep 21, 2026Minda Zhao, Fangyu Hu, Yan Luo +8Medical Image AnalysisMultimodal Large Language Models

    Harvard AI and Robotics Lab, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA · Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA · Department of Ophthalmology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan +6

  11. A Unified Vision-Language Model for PSMA PET/CT Report Generation, Visual Question Answering, and Lesion Segmentation

    Sep 14, 2026Yang Xing, Jiong Wu, Savas Ozdemir +11Radiology Report GenerationMedical VQA

    1J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA · Department of Radiology, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA · Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA +3

  12. Option-Aware Retrieval and Task-Specific VLM Adaptation for Medical VQA

    Sep 14, 2026Tristan Kirscher, Niklas C. Koser, Soren PirkVLM AdaptationMultiple-Choice Question Answering

    ICube, Institut Strauss · ICube Laboratory, CNRS UMR 7357, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France · CLCC Institut Strauss, Strasbourg, France +2

  13. STSG-VQA: Evidence-Grounded Temporal Question Answering from Surgical Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs

    Sep 8, 2026Jing Li, Duygu SarikayaMedical VQAQuestion Answering

    School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, UK

  14. A visual large language foundational model for medical image recognition using clinician-contributed online resources

    Sep 7, 2026Lingxuan Hou, Yuhua Xie, Yue Hu +14Medical VQAMedical VLMs

    College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China · School of Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand · Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China +2

  15. MedQA-MM: Shortcuts Behind Medical Visual Reasoning

    Sep 3, 2026Benlu Wang, Yifan Zhang, Jiaqing Yu +7Medical VQAShortcut Learning

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · 4Yale University · University of Massachusetts Lowell +6

  16. Candidate-Expanding Routing with Permutation-Stabilized Experts for Mixed-Format Medical VQA

    Sep 1, 2026Hai-Dang Nguyen, Huy-Hieu PhamMemory-Augmented VLMsVisual Question Answering

    College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam · VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam · Center for Innovations in Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam

  17. SlideBank: A Persistent Hierarchical Evidence Bank for Consistent Whole-Slide Reasoning

    Aug 31, 2026Beidi Zhao, Gexin Huang, Ciro Zhang +6Memory-Augmented VLMsMedical VQA

    University of British Columbia · Vector Institute · Harvard University +3

  18. Source-Dependent Deference in Medical Imaging Agents Under Falsified Findings: A Pilot Audit

    Aug 30, 2026Ridam Roy, Md Shahriar Rashid, Md. Rajib MiaTool-Use EvaluationMedical VQA

    Daffodil International University Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh · Boise State University Boise, Idaho, USA

  19. Polish Medical Visual Question Answering: Vision-Language Models Underutilize Visual Evidence

    Aug 13, 2026Jakub Pokrywka, Łukasz Grzybowski, Antoni Lasik +3Medical VQAMultilingual VLM Evaluation

    Adam Mickiewicz University · ARAAI Poland · NASK National Research Institute +2

  20. CARE: Confidence-Aware Reasoning for Reliable Medical VQA

    Aug 11, 2026Yuetian Du, Yucheng Wang, Zhenyuan Chen +9Medical VQAMedical VLMs

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group · University of Michigan +1

  21. Agentic Visual Reasoning in Whole-Slide Pathology Images via Active Perception

    Aug 9, 2026Jingyun Chen, Fengchun Liu, Linghan Cai +5Active PerceptionMedical VQA

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong

  22. Frequency-Domain Dual-Branch Fusion for Medical Visual Question Answering

    Aug 8, 2026Yusra Tariq, Rakesh Chandra JoshiMedical VQAMultimodal Fusion

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Amity University, Noida, India

  23. Beyond Relevance: Bayesian Evidence Acquisition for Agentic Whole-Slide Image Reasoning

    Aug 6, 2026Bryan Wong, Xun Xu, Huazhu Fu +2Visual Question AnsweringComputational Pathology

    1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) · Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), A*STAR · Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), A*STAR

  24. CARVE: Cross-Slice Anisotropic Reallocation of Visual Evidence for Efficient 3D Medical Volume Understanding

    Aug 5, 2026Zhenyu Yi, Qiang Hu, Zhenhao Li +33D Medical ImagingMedical VQA

    School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  25. SPARC-Rad: A Multimodal Benchmark Dataset and Evaluation Pipeline for Spatial and Anatomical Reasoning in Radiology Vision-Language Models

    Jul 30, 2026Satvik Tripathi, Mustafa Ege Seker, Kristian Quevada +8Radiology VLMsMedical Image Analysis

    Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA · Department of Radiology, Cooper University Hospital, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey, USA +5

  26. PathView-Bench: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Achieve Fine-grained Multiscale Understanding of Pathology Images?

    Jul 30, 2026Zongyi Chen, Yu Liang, Jie Lin +1Computational PathologyMedical VQA

    National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University · Institute of Artificial Intelligence Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · Department of Computer Science School of Informatics Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

  27. 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

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

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

    Yale University

  29. Inference-Time Agentic Decision Rules Beat Longer Evolving Search for Multi-Image Medical Reasoning

    Jul 30, 2026Site Li, Jianyi Hao, Xiaofeng LiuMedical VQAVLM Reasoning

    Yale University

  30. 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