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

    Jul 24, 2026Renjie LiangFrozen EncoderMedical Vision-Language Models

  2. 3D-Aware VLMs with Implicit and Explicit Geometries

    Jul 23, 2026Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian +43D Spatial Reasoning3D Object Detection

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

    Jul 23, 2026Chengyang Zhang, Wenchuan Zhang, Bo Li +10Medical Vision-Language ModelsPathology

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

    Jul 23, 2026Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Lea Bogensperger, Christian Bluethgen +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsFrozen Encoder

  5. 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 +10Medical Vision-Language ModelsChest Radiography

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

    Jul 20, 2026Binesh Sadanandan, Vahid BehzadanMedical Vision-Language ModelsSaliency

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

    Jul 18, 2026Raza Imam, Darakshan Rashid, Yutong Xie +3Medical Vision-Language ModelsExperts

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

    Jul 17, 2026Lichao Mou, Shilan Zhang, Chunlei Li +7Medical Vision-Language ModelsModel Merging

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

    Jul 17, 2026Zhengbo Zhou, Jiren Li, Dooman Arefan +2MammographyMedical Vision-Language Models

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

    Jul 17, 2026Ailar Mahdizadeh, Puria Azadi Moghadam, Xiangteng He +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsComputed Tomography Dataset

  11. Multi-LLM Collaborative MRI Report Generation for Visual Instruction Tuning in Brain Oncology

    Jul 16, 2026Sinyoung Ra, Jonghun Kim, Hyunjin ParkMedical Vision-Language ModelsMagnetic Resonance Imaging

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

    Jul 15, 2026Guoliang You, Xiaomeng ChuComputed Tomography DatasetMedical Vision-Language Models

  13. Towards Enhancing 3D Spatial Reasoning in Medical Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 15, 2026Zhuoyuan Fu, Zeshang Li, Yiqiong Zhang +53D Spatial ReasoningMedical Vision-Language Models

  14. Decouple and Reason: Anatomically Guided Two-Stage Voxel-Level Grounding of Free-Text Findings in 3D Chest CT

    Jul 14, 2026Kwang-Hyun Uhm, Inhwa Son, Sung-Jea KoComputed Tomography Dataset3D Visual Grounding

  15. An Empirical Analysis of Continual Learning for Heterogeneous Medical Visual Question Answering

    Jul 13, 2026Mai A. Shaaban, Tausifa Jan Saleem, Alaa Mohamed +3Medical Visual Question AnsweringEfficient Continual Learning

  16. LaGuadia: Language-Guided Adaptive Distillation from Pathology Foundation Models

    Jul 13, 2026Gangsu Kim, Won-Ki JeongPathology Foundation ModelsMedical Vision-Language Models

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

    Jul 12, 2026Guoliang You, Hongming Li, Yuanwang Zhang +1Radiology Report GenerationMedical Vision-Language Models

  18. Benchmarking the Robustness of Foundation Models for Mammography under Domain Shift

    Jul 11, 2026Giang Nguyen, Raghav Mehta, Emma A. M. Stanley +4MammographyFoundation Model

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

    Jul 11, 2026Li Guo, Anas M. Tahir, Z. Jane WangChest RadiographyMedical Vision-Language Models

  20. TCLA: Training-Free Class-wise Logit Adaptation for Medical Vision-Language Models

    Jul 10, 2026Tianyou Jiang, Ziyu ZhouVision-Language Model AdaptationMedical Vision-Language Models

  21. Super-Generalist: Towards Comprehensive and Accurate Medical Image Understanding via Generalist-Specialist Synergy

    Jul 10, 2026Shaoteng Zhang, Weiwei Cao, Wanxing Chang +9Medical Vision-Language ModelsLesion Segmentation

  22. Evaluating and Understanding Model Editing for Medical Vision Language Models

    Jul 6, 2026Guli Zhu, Chenwei Wu, Liyue ShenMedical Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Benchmarks

  23. Do Medical Vision Language Models Actually See? A Counterfactual Grounding Framework and Hard-Negative Contrastive Training for Visually-Reliant Medical VLMs

    Jul 4, 2026Anas Zafar, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +2Medical Visual Question AnsweringMedical Vision-Language Models

  24. Towards Real-World Ultrasound Understanding: Large Vision-Language Models from Multi-Image Examinations with Long-Form Reports

    Jul 2, 2026Bingcong Yan, Chunlei Li, Jingliang Hu +3UltrasoundMedical Vision-Language Models

  25. Dual-Adaptive SAM3: Hierarchical Routing over Low-Rank Expert Layers for Parameter-Efficient Medical Image Segmentation

    Jun 30, 2026Ying Chen, Jinyue Li, Kun Wang +2Few-Shot Medical Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

  26. HyperVLP: Enhancing Hierarchical Surgical Video-Language Pre-training in Hyperbolic Space

    Jun 30, 2026Yaojun Hu, Kun Yuan, Nassir Navab +3Surgical VideosMedical Vision-Language Models

  27. SHOVIR: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision Shortcut Learning in Radiology Report Generation

    Jun 29, 2026Filippo Ruffini, Marco Salmé, Rosa Sicilia +2Radiology Report GenerationMedical Vision-Language Models

  28. 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 TusharMedical Vision-Language ModelsLabel-Free

  29. Detecting Clinical Hallucinations in LVLMs via Counterfactual Visual Grounding Uncertainty

    Jun 26, 2026Xiao Song, Haonan Qin, Zhaoxu Zhang +3Robust Hallucination DetectionMedical Vision-Language Models

  30. Aloe-Vision: Robust Vision-Language Models for Healthcare

    Jun 25, 2026Jaume Guasch-Martí, Enrique Lopez-Cuena, Martín Suárez-Fernández +3Medical Vision-Language ModelsLarge Vision Language Models

  31. CORTEX: A Structured Reasoning Benchmark for Trustworthy 3D Chest CT MLLMs

    Jun 25, 2026Hashmat Shadab Malik, Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi, Numan Saeed +3Radiology Report GenerationClinical Reasoning

  32. TAVR-VLM: Risk-Conditioned Causal Grounding for Hallucination-Resistant Report Generation

    Jun 25, 2026Zhixiang Lu, Xiwei Liu, Sifan Song +5Large Language Model HallucinationMedical Vision-Language Models

  33. Enhancing Brain MRI Anomaly Detection and Reasoning with ROI Rethink and Synthetic Data

    Jun 24, 2026Shangkun Li, Jie Xu, Yi Guo +2Medical Vision-Language ModelsBrain

  34. Disease-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining with Hybrid Visual Encoding for 3D Computed Tomography

    Jun 24, 2026Bowen Shi, Weiwei Cao, Ruifeng Yuan +5Medical Vision-Language ModelsRadiology Report Generation

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

    Jun 23, 2026Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Max Van Puyvelde, Wim Van Criekinge +1Chest X-RayRadiology Report Generation

  36. BioMedVR: Confusion-Aware Mixture-of-Prompt Experts for Biomedical Visual Reprogramming

    Jun 23, 2026Jiaxiang Liu, Tianxiang Hu, Juwei Guan +5Medical Vision-Language ModelsFew-Shot Learning

  37. Jolia: Concept-Level Vision-Language Alignment for 3D CT Contrastive Learning

    Jun 23, 2026Julien Khlaut, Charles Corbière, Baptiste Callard +9Medical Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Alignment

  38. A Benchmark for Hallucination Detection in VLMs for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

    Jun 23, 2026Aminu Lawal, Niyoj Oli, Sachin Acharya +3Robust Hallucination DetectionHallucination Detection

  39. E-MRL: Cross-view Aligned Evidence-driven Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Reliable 3D Tumor Analysis

    Jun 22, 2026Sijing Li, Zhongwei Qiu, Zhuoya Wang +6Medical Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Clinical Data

  40. Brain-Adapter: A Dual-Stream Vision-Language MIL Framework for Comprehensive 3D CT Diagnosis of Acute Intracranial Pathologies

    Jun 22, 2026Zhenyu Yi, Zhiyun Song, Yusong Sun +6Medical Vision-Language ModelsComputed Tomography Dataset

  41. CADRE: Stable, Parameter Efficient Adaptation of Medical Vision Language Models with Bounded Forgetting and Prior Drift

    Jun 22, 2026Amrita Singh, Rishabh JhaVision-Language Model AdaptationMedical Vision-Language Models

  42. Large Language Model-Assisted Cleaning of Report-Derived Labels in a Large-Scale Chest CT Dataset

    Jun 21, 2026Yosuke Yamagishi, Atsushi Takamatsu, Mototsugu Sato +4Medical Imaging DatasetsMedical Vision-Language Models

  43. OphthaDT: Generative Digital Twins for Forecasting Visual Acuity Trajectories in Ophthalmology

    Jun 20, 2026Pietro Belligoli, Nikita Makarov, Sayedali Shetab Boushehri +3OphthalmologyDigital Twins

  44. Precision Recall Controllable Radiology Report Generation via Hybrid Natural Language and Clinical Reward Learning

    Jun 19, 2026Ling Chen, Ruinan Jin, Jun Luo +6Radiology Report GenerationReport

  45. MEDLAYXPLAIN: Benchmarking the Expert-Lay Gap in Medical Vision-Language Models

    Jun 19, 2026Han Jang, Junhyeok Lee, Songsoo Kim +4Medical Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Benchmarks

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

    Jun 19, 2026Geon Choi, Hangyul Yoon, Nalee Kim +5Chest X-RayMedical Vision-Language Models

  47. PROTON: Prototype-Based Test-Time Online OOD Detection for Medical VLMs

    Jun 18, 2026Abhijit Das, Nichula Wasalathilaka, Yifan Lu +4Out-Of-Distribution DetectionMedical Vision-Language Models

  48. 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 +2Medical Vision-Language ModelsMedical Image Classification

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

    Jun 18, 2026Yusuf Salcan, Simon Ging, Robin Tibor Schirrmeister +4Medical Vision-Language ModelsLarge Vision Language Models

  50. Occ-VLM: Occupancy Grounded Vision Language Model for Indoor Scene Understanding

    Jun 18, 2026Jianing Li, Zhou Fang, Yijiang Liu +13D Scene UnderstandingLarge Vision Language Models

  51. Hallucination Detection and Correction in Medical VLMs via Counter-Evidence Verification

    Jun 17, 2026Nan Zhou, Ke Zou, Meng Liu +5Robust Hallucination DetectionHallucination Detection

  52. Evaluation of Medical Vision Language Models HuluMed and MedGemma, and general purpose chatbots Gemma 3, ChatGPT Plus, and Claude Pro on real previously unseen wound images

    Jun 16, 2026Yunzhe Xue, Mohammed Saim Ahmed Quadri, Neal Panse +2Multimodal Wound AnalysisMedical Vision-Language Models

  53. Domain Generalizable Adaptation of 3D Vision-Language Models via Regularized Fine-Tuning

    Jun 16, 2026Sneha Paul, Zachary Patterson, Nizar BouguilaMultimodal Domain GeneralizationVision-Language Model Adaptation

  54. Vision-language models for chest radiography do not always need the image

    Jun 16, 2026Mahshad Lotfinia, Sebastian Ziegelmayer, Lisa Adams +3Chest RadiographyMedical Vision-Language Models

  55. Revisiting LLM Adaptation for 3D CT Report Generation: A Study of Scaling and Diagnostic Priors

    Jun 15, 2026Vanshali Sharma, Andrea M. Bejar, Halil Ertugrul Aktas +4Medical Vision-Language ModelsLarge Language Model Adaptation

  56. LLM-Based Visual Explanation Evaluation Framework for Assessing the Explainability of Facial Skin Disease Classification Models

    Jun 15, 2026Gyuyeon NaSkin Lesion ClassificationExplainability

  57. Vision-Language Models as Zero-Annotation Oracles in Histopathology

    Jun 15, 2026Vishal Jain, Giorgio Buzzanca, Sarah Cechnicka +6Computational PathologyLesion Segmentation

  58. Trusting Right Predictions for Wrong Reasons: A LIME Based Analysis of Deep Learning Interpretability in Lung Cancer Diagnosis

    Jun 14, 2026Samarpan Poudel, Vladislav D VekslerNon-Small Cell Lung CancerModel Interpretability

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

    Jun 14, 2026Zhangfeng Hu, Zefan Yang, Ge Wang +4Chest X-RayMedical Vision-Language Models

  60. Calibrated Triage, Not Autonomy: Confidence Estimation for Medical Vision-Language Models

    Jun 14, 2026Reza Khanmohammadi, Kundan Thind, Mohammad M. GhassemiMedical Vision-Language ModelsMedical Visual Question Answering