Free Form Medical Visual Question Answering in Radiology

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Main Authors: Narayanan, Abhishek, Musthyala, Rushabh, Sankar, Rahul, Nistala, Anirudh Prasad, Singh, Pranav, Cirrone, Jacopo
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author Narayanan, Abhishek
Musthyala, Rushabh
Sankar, Rahul
Nistala, Anirudh Prasad
Singh, Pranav
Cirrone, Jacopo
author_facet Narayanan, Abhishek
Musthyala, Rushabh
Sankar, Rahul
Nistala, Anirudh Prasad
Singh, Pranav
Cirrone, Jacopo
contents Visual Question Answering (VQA) in the medical domain presents a unique, interdisciplinary challenge, combining fields such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Knowledge Representation. Despite its importance, research in medical VQA has been scant, only gaining momentum since 2018. Addressing this gap, our research delves into the effective representation of radiology images and the joint learning of multimodal representations, surpassing existing methods. We innovatively augment the SLAKE dataset, enabling our model to respond to a more diverse array of questions, not limited to the immediate content of radiology or pathology images. Our model achieves a top-1 accuracy of 79.55\% with a less complex architecture, demonstrating comparable performance to current state-of-the-art models. This research not only advances medical VQA but also opens avenues for practical applications in diagnostic settings.
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spellingShingle Free Form Medical Visual Question Answering in Radiology
Narayanan, Abhishek
Musthyala, Rushabh
Sankar, Rahul
Nistala, Anirudh Prasad
Singh, Pranav
Cirrone, Jacopo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Visual Question Answering (VQA) in the medical domain presents a unique, interdisciplinary challenge, combining fields such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Knowledge Representation. Despite its importance, research in medical VQA has been scant, only gaining momentum since 2018. Addressing this gap, our research delves into the effective representation of radiology images and the joint learning of multimodal representations, surpassing existing methods. We innovatively augment the SLAKE dataset, enabling our model to respond to a more diverse array of questions, not limited to the immediate content of radiology or pathology images. Our model achieves a top-1 accuracy of 79.55\% with a less complex architecture, demonstrating comparable performance to current state-of-the-art models. This research not only advances medical VQA but also opens avenues for practical applications in diagnostic settings.
title Free Form Medical Visual Question Answering in Radiology
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13081