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  1. Geometry-Supervised Visual Representation Learning for Multi-Phenotype Lesion Interpretation in Medical VLMs

    Oct 7, 2026Hao Wang, Qiwei Zeng, Shuchang Ye +5Visual Representation LearningMedical Image Representation Learning

    The University of Sydney · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Northeastern University

  2. Anatomy-aware Fine-grained Multimodal Fusion for Laryngopharyngeal Cancer T-Staging Prediction Using CT and Radiology Report

    Oct 5, 2026Xingyue Zhao, Yanzhou Su, Fang Zhang +12Radiology VLMsMultimodal Classification

    DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · Department of Neurosurgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China · Hupan Laboratory, Hangzhou, China +6

  3. Unmentioned Checklist Findings Change How Reinforcement Learning Appears to Improve Chest Radiograph Report Checking

    Oct 4, 2026Ali Vosoughi, Akhil Kasturi, Chenliang Xu +1Radiology VLMsRadiology Report Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. · Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA. +1

  4. PLRS-IC: A Dual-Calibration Framework for Chest X-Ray Vision-Language Alignment

    Sep 30, 2026Qixing Zhao, Jinpeng LiRadiology VLMsVision-Language Alignment

    South China University of Technology

  5. SentZero: An Enhanced Sentence-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining for Multi-Task Zero-Shot Chest X-Ray Analysis

    Sep 28, 2026Hangyul Yoon, Hyungyung Lee, Edward Choi +1Contrastive LearningRadiology VLMs

    Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  6. Med-AR: Autoregressive Vision-Language Pretraining for Long-Tailed Chest X-Ray Classification and Uncertainty-Aware Evaluation

    Sep 24, 2026Janhavi Prabhu, Sahil, Akshay V +3Long-Tailed ClassificationChest X-Ray Classification

    Qure.ai, Bangalore, India

  7. NV-Reason-CT: 3D Visual Language Model for CT Analysis

    Sep 23, 2026Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Yucheng Tang +13Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA · NIH, Bethesda, MD · University of Oxford, Oxford, UK +4

  8. ModaLens: Measuring Image Sensitivity in Report-Conditioned Medical VLMs

    Sep 14, 2026Sebastián Andrés Cajas Ordóñez, Maximin Lange, Quang Bui +9VLM EvaluationRadiology VLMs

    MIT Critical Data, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · King’s College London · American International School Vienna +6

  9. A radiographic world model for clinical reasoning and evidence generation

    Sep 7, 2026Suyang Xi, Songtao Hu, Shansong Wang +8Chest X-Ray ClassificationRadiology VLMs

    Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. · Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. · Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. +2

  10. NeoRed: A Knowledge-Logic-Alignment Multimodal Large Language Model for Neonatal Respiratory Disease Diagnosis

    Sep 3, 2026Yinan Liu, Hongtai Xia, Haoran Xu +3Radiology Report GenerationChest X-Ray Classification

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University Shanghai, China

  11. Solving the Needle-in-a-Haystack Problem in Mammography Vision-Language Model with Differentiable Subset Sampling

    Sep 2, 2026Young Seok Jeon, Beatrice Brown-Mulry, Rohan Satya Isaac +5Radiology VLMsMedical Image Localization

    Department of Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

  12. CheXGround: Anatomical Region Tokens for Grounded Longitudinal Chest X-ray Interpretation

    Aug 31, 2026Adonay Demewez Gebremedhin, Wessam Shehieb, Sara Alansari +4Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Ajman University Ajman, United Arab Emirates · University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom · Khalifa University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates +1

  13. How Good are Foundation Models in Longitudinal MRI Disease Progression Reasoning?

    Aug 13, 2026Wafa Al Ghallabi, Ritesh Thawkar, Sara Ghaboura +6Radiology VLMsMedical Image Analysis

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Health Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Fatima College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi, UAE +1

  14. Resolution Meets Reduction: Efficient Visual Context for 3D Radiology Report Generation

    Aug 9, 2026Jonathan Suprijadi, Raphael Stock, Moritz Langenberg +10Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Division of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

  15. Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Yuta Kobayashi, Pradyun Ramesh, Muhammad Ahmed Chaudhry +5Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Columbia University · Stanford University · Emory University

  16. CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement

    Aug 4, 2026Mercy Prasanna Ranjit, Anirban Porya, Sathvik Joel +8Radiology Report GenerationChest X-Ray Classification

    Microsoft Research India · Medha AI, Narayana Health, India. · RTIICS, Narayana Health, India

  17. HarMoE: Multi-Source Chest Radiograph Pretraining with Dataset-Disentangled Experts

    Aug 3, 2026Haozhe Luo, Ziyu Zhou, Shelley Zixin Shu +1Multi-Source Domain AdaptationChest X-Ray Classification

    ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern · Kaiko.AI, Zurich, Switzerland · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  18. Learning to See Locally and Align Clinically with Pathology Semantics for Radiology Report Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Xuan Cuong NgoRadiology Report GenerationVLM Robustness

  19. RadPRISM: Schema-stratified radiology-report supervision for concept-disentangled image representations and visual grounding

    Jul 31, 2026Fabian Drexel, Marlene Fritzsche, Era Stambollxhiu +15Chest X-Ray ClassificationDisentangled Representation Learning

    Chair for AI in Healthcare and Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany · Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, TUM University Hospital, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Munich, Germany · Department of Radiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany +5

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. Forensic Reproducibility Audit of a Radiology Vision-Language Model Benchmark: From Intended Protocol to Released Artifact

    Jul 28, 2026Mateusz KozłowskiVLM EvaluationRadiology VLMs

    Independent Researcher, Kraków, Poland

  23. KANEx: Translating Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks' Interpretability to Medical Explainability

    Jul 27, 2026Krithi Shailya, Ananya Lakshmi Ravi, Venkatanathan K. V. +4Radiology VLMsKolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    Centre for Responsible AI, Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA

  24. RadSight: Towards Perceptually Reliable Multimodal Radiology Image Understanding

    Jul 24, 2026Jianqin Liu, Weiwei Cao, Wanxing Chang +7Radiology VLMsMedical Image Grounding

    1DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  25. DobicVLM: Aligning Chest X-Ray Report Generation with Clinically-Grounded Programmatic Rewards via Group Relative Policy Optimization

    Jul 21, 2026Thanni Adewuyi, Angelica Obayi, Andem Aniekan +10Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Dobic Health · HelpMum Africa · University of Ibadan

  26. Region-Grounded Vision-Language Learning for Detection-Guided Mammographic Lesion Classification

    Jul 17, 2026Zhengbo Zhou, Jiren Li, Dooman Arefan +2Radiology VLMsVision-Language Models

    Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Department of Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  27. When Can Test-Time Adaptation Help Zero-Shot CT Vision-Language Models?

    Jul 17, 2026Ailar Mahdizadeh, Puria Azadi Moghadam, Xiangteng He +1Zero-Shot LearningRadiology VLMs

    University of British Columbia · 2Vector Institute

  28. Learning Anatomy-Grounded CT Vision-Language Representations with Organ-Hierarchical Report Knowledge

    Jul 12, 2026Guoliang You, Hongming Li, Yuanwang Zhang +1Radiology VLMsMedical VLMs

    Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA · School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  29. REVA-PO: Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Chest X-ray Report Generation

    Jul 11, 2026Li Guo, Anas M. Tahir, Z. Jane WangRadiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  30. CT-CLIP Representations for Multimodal Lung Cancer Survival Prediction

    Jul 9, 2026Sofie Allgöwer, Mikael Johansson, Andreas Hallqvist +4Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsRadiology VLMs

    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden · Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden · Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden +1

  31. Harrison.Rad 1.5 Technical Report: A radiology foundation model that can draft reports from images, priors and clinical context

    Jul 7, 2026Suneeta Mall, Vladimir Nekrasov, Ashnil Kumar +5Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

  32. When Does Synthetic CT Transfer? A Label-Free Donor/Host Diagnostic for Medical Vision-Language Model Routing on Real Lung CT

    Jun 28, 2026Fakrul Islam TusharVLM EvaluationSynthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation

    Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Arizona

  33. Transition-Aware best-of-N sampling for Longitudinal Chest X-ray Reports

    Jun 23, 2026Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Max Van Puyvelde, Wim Van Criekinge +1Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA · Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics & Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  34. CheXpercept: A Benchmark for Evaluating Expert-Level Lesion Perception in Chest X-rays

    Jun 19, 2026Geon Choi, Hangyul Yoon, Nalee Kim +5VLM EvaluationMedical Imaging

    1KAIST · 2Samsung Medical Center · 3Konkuk University Medical Center

  35. Translating Inference-Time Control to Radiology Vision-Language Models: Activation Steering for Pneumonia Classification on Chest X-rays

    Jun 18, 2026Eduardo Moreno Judice de Mattos Farina, Mateus A. Esmeraldo, Felipe Akio Matsuoka +2Chest X-Ray ClassificationRadiology VLMs

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein São Paulo, Brazil · Department of Radiology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA, USA · Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) DASA São Paulo, Brazil +2

  36. Scalable Training of Spatially Grounded 2D Vision-Language Models for Radiology

    Jun 18, 2026Yusuf Salcan, Simon Ging, Robin Tibor Schirrmeister +4Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Computer Vision Group, University of Freiburg, Germany · CRIION-AI Lab, Freiburg, Germany · Adaptive & Agentic AI +3

  37. Learning Directional Semantic Transitions for Longitudinal Chest X-ray Analysis

    Jun 14, 2026Zhangfeng Hu, Zefan Yang, Ge Wang +4Radiology VLMsLongitudinal Medical Image Analysis

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

  38. XMedFusion: A Knowledge-Guided Multimodal Perception and Reasoning Framework for Autonomous Medical Systems

    Jun 8, 2026Hamza Riaz, Arham Haroon, Maha Baig +3Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan · University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE, United Kingdom

  39. CheXanatomy: Anatomy-Aware Vision-Language Modeling for Chest Radiographs

    Jun 7, 2026Sergios Gatidis, Curtis Langlotz, Christian BluethgenRadiology VLMsMedical Image Segmentation

    Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA · Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  40. A Vision-language Framework for Comparative Reasoning in Radiology

    Jun 4, 2026Tengfei Zhang, Ziheng Zhao, Xiaoman Zhang +5Radiology VLMsLongitudinal Medical Image Analysis

    University of Science and Technology of China · 3Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University +3

  41. Does Language Shift Break Medical Vision-Language Models? Indonesian Radiology Visual Question Answering Case Study

    Jun 2, 2026Pieter Christy Yan Yudhistira, Dzaki Rafif Malik, Novanto YudistiraVLM EvaluationVLM Robustness

    Intelligent System Laboratory, Faculty of Computer Science Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia

  42. GLINT: Sparsely Gated Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Radiology Representations

    Jun 2, 2026Jonggwon Park, Seongeun Lee, Junhyun Park +6Radiology VLMsMedical Image Segmentation

    DEEPNOID Inc., Seoul, South Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea

  43. CCS: Clinical Consensus Selection for Radiology Report Generation

    May 28, 2026Xi Zhang, Yingshu Li, Zaiqiao Meng +2Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sydney · Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge

  44. BioFact-MoE: Biologically Factorized Mixture of Experts for Vision-Language Prognostic Modeling in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    May 25, 2026Junlin Yang, Tian Yu, Nicha C. Dvornek +6Radiology VLMsCancer Survival Prediction

    Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA · Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA +1

  45. DDX-TRACE: A Benchmark for Medical Diagnostic Trajectories in VLMs

    May 22, 2026Jiazhen Pan, Weixiang Shen, Jun Li +7Medical ImagingRadiology VLMs

    Technical University of Munich (TUM) · TUM University Hospital · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) +3

  46. MedExpMem: Adapting Experience Memory for Differential Diagnosis

    May 20, 2026Qianhan Feng, Zhongzhen Huang, Yakun Zhu +4Radiology VLMsHealthcare

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institue

  47. Regulating Anatomy-Aware Rewards via Trajectory-Integral Feedback for Volumetric Computed Tomography Analysis

    May 19, 2026Tianwei Lin, Zhongwei Qiu, Jie Cao +7Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Zhejiang University · DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · Hupan Lab +1

  48. Medical Context Distorts Decisions in Clinical Vision Language Models

    May 17, 2026David Restrepo, Ira Ktena, Maria Vakalopoulou +2VLM EvaluationVLM Robustness

    1MICS, CentraleSup´elec - Universit´e Paris-Saclay, France · 2Cancer Data Science Unit, IHU PRISM, National Institute in Precision Oncology, University Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupelec, Gustave Roussy, INSERM, Gif-sur-Yvette · 3Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), Oxford, UK +1

  49. KEPIL: Knowledge-Enhanced Prompt-Image Learning for Prompt-Robust Disease Detection

    May 9, 2026Haozhe Luo, Shelley Zixin Shu, Ziyu Zhou +2VLM RobustnessRadiology VLMs

    ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern · Kaiko.AI, Zurich, Switzerland · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  50. iTRIALSPACE: Programmable Virtual Lesion Trials for Controlled Evaluation of Lung CT Models

    May 7, 2026Fakrul Islam Tushar, Umme Hafsa Momy, Joseph Y. Lo +1VLM EvaluationRadiology VLMs

    Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Arizona · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University · Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center

  51. RIHA: Report-Image Hierarchical Alignment for Radiology Report Generation

    Apr 30, 2026Yucheng Chen, Yang Yu, Yufei Shi +3Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    MedVisAI Lab, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and Centre of AI in Medicine, Singapore · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Machine Intellection, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research, (A*STAR), Singapore

  52. EXACT: an explainable anomaly-aware vision foundation model for analysis of 3D chest CT

    Apr 27, 2026Xuguang Bai, Mingxuan Liu, Tongxi Song +6Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsRadiology VLMs

    School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · Department of Radiology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang, China. · Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Tsinghua University, 30 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China, 100084

  53. CheXmix: Unified Generative Pretraining for Vision Language Models in Medical Imaging

    Apr 24, 2026Ashwin Kumar, Robbie Holland, Corey Barrett +8Radiology Report GenerationChest X-Ray Classification

    Stanford AIMI, Stanford University · Oracle Health AI · Department of Radiology, Stanford University

  54. CXRMate-2: Structured Multimodal Temporal Embeddings and Tractable Reinforcement Learning for Clinically Acceptable Chest X-ray Radiology Report Generation

    Apr 21, 2026Aaron Nicolson, Elizabeth J. Cooper, Hwan-Jin Yoon +7Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Brisbane & Melbourne, Australia · Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Health, Brisbane, Australia · Queensland Digital Health Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia +2

  55. Prototype-Based Knowledge Guidance for Fine-Grained Structured Radiology Reporting

    Mar 12, 2026Chantal Pellegrini, Adrian Delchev, Ege Özsoy +2Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    Computer Aided Medical Procedures, Technische Universität München, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Germany

  56. GreenRFM: Learning a resource-efficient radiology vision-language foundation model via supervision-centric pre-training

    Mar 6, 2026Yingtai Li, Shuai Ming, Qiuli Wang +13Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsRadiology VLMs

    School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China · Center for Medical Imaging, Robotics, Analytic Computing & Learning (MIRACLE), Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, USTC, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China · Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, USTC, Hefei, Anhui, 230001, China +7

  57. TotalFM: An Organ-Separated 3D-CT Foundation Model Leveraging Large-Scale Routine Clinical Radiology Data

    Jan 1, 2026Kohei Yamamoto, Tomohiro Kikuchi3D Foundation ModelsMedical Imaging Foundation Models

    Department of Radiology, Jichi Medical University · Data Science Center, Jichi Medical University

  58. Generalised Medical Phrase Grounding

    Nov 30, 2025Wenjun Zhang, Shekhar S. Chandra, Aaron NicolsonRadiology VLMsHealthcare

    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia · Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Australia

  59. Multimodal Large Language Model driven Radiology Report Generation with Clinical Knowledge Enhancement

    Mar 11, 2024Miaojing Shi, Tianyu Cen, Zijie Yue +3Radiology Report GenerationRadiology VLMs

    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China