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Main Authors: Luo, Lingxiao, Tang, Bingda, Chen, Xuanzhong, Han, Rong, Chen, Ting
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12694
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author Luo, Lingxiao
Tang, Bingda
Chen, Xuanzhong
Han, Rong
Chen, Ting
author_facet Luo, Lingxiao
Tang, Bingda
Chen, Xuanzhong
Han, Rong
Chen, Ting
contents Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable promise in generating visually grounded responses. However, their application in the medical domain is hindered by unique challenges. For instance, most VLMs rely on a single method of visual grounding, whereas complex medical tasks demand more versatile approaches. Additionally, while most VLMs process only 2D images, a large portion of medical images are 3D. The lack of medical data further compounds these obstacles. To address these challenges, we present VividMed, a vision language model with versatile visual grounding for medicine. Our model supports generating both semantic segmentation masks and instance-level bounding boxes, and accommodates various imaging modalities, including both 2D and 3D data. We design a three-stage training procedure and an automatic data synthesis pipeline based on open datasets and models. Besides visual grounding tasks, VividMed also excels in other common downstream tasks, including Visual Question Answering (VQA) and report generation. Ablation studies empirically show that the integration of visual grounding ability leads to improved performance on these tasks. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/function2-llx/MMMM.
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spellingShingle VividMed: Vision Language Model with Versatile Visual Grounding for Medicine
Luo, Lingxiao
Tang, Bingda
Chen, Xuanzhong
Han, Rong
Chen, Ting
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable promise in generating visually grounded responses. However, their application in the medical domain is hindered by unique challenges. For instance, most VLMs rely on a single method of visual grounding, whereas complex medical tasks demand more versatile approaches. Additionally, while most VLMs process only 2D images, a large portion of medical images are 3D. The lack of medical data further compounds these obstacles. To address these challenges, we present VividMed, a vision language model with versatile visual grounding for medicine. Our model supports generating both semantic segmentation masks and instance-level bounding boxes, and accommodates various imaging modalities, including both 2D and 3D data. We design a three-stage training procedure and an automatic data synthesis pipeline based on open datasets and models. Besides visual grounding tasks, VividMed also excels in other common downstream tasks, including Visual Question Answering (VQA) and report generation. Ablation studies empirically show that the integration of visual grounding ability leads to improved performance on these tasks. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/function2-llx/MMMM.
title VividMed: Vision Language Model with Versatile Visual Grounding for Medicine
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12694