MMed-RAG: Versatile Multimodal RAG System for Medical Vision Language Models

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Autori principali: Xia, Peng, Zhu, Kangyu, Li, Haoran, Wang, Tianze, Shi, Weijia, Wang, Sheng, Zhang, Linjun, Zou, James, Yao, Huaxiu
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author Xia, Peng
Zhu, Kangyu
Li, Haoran
Wang, Tianze
Shi, Weijia
Wang, Sheng
Zhang, Linjun
Zou, James
Yao, Huaxiu
author_facet Xia, Peng
Zhu, Kangyu
Li, Haoran
Wang, Tianze
Shi, Weijia
Wang, Sheng
Zhang, Linjun
Zou, James
Yao, Huaxiu
contents Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant potential in healthcare, particularly in disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Recent progress in Medical Large Vision-Language Models (Med-LVLMs) has opened up new possibilities for interactive diagnostic tools. However, these models often suffer from factual hallucination, which can lead to incorrect diagnoses. Fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have emerged as methods to address these issues. However, the amount of high-quality data and distribution shifts between training data and deployment data limit the application of fine-tuning methods. Although RAG is lightweight and effective, existing RAG-based approaches are not sufficiently general to different medical domains and can potentially cause misalignment issues, both between modalities and between the model and the ground truth. In this paper, we propose a versatile multimodal RAG system, MMed-RAG, designed to enhance the factuality of Med-LVLMs. Our approach introduces a domain-aware retrieval mechanism, an adaptive retrieved contexts selection method, and a provable RAG-based preference fine-tuning strategy. These innovations make the RAG process sufficiently general and reliable, significantly improving alignment when introducing retrieved contexts. Experimental results across five medical datasets (involving radiology, ophthalmology, pathology) on medical VQA and report generation demonstrate that MMed-RAG can achieve an average improvement of 43.8% in the factual accuracy of Med-LVLMs. Our data and code are available in https://github.com/richard-peng-xia/MMed-RAG.
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spellingShingle MMed-RAG: Versatile Multimodal RAG System for Medical Vision Language Models
Xia, Peng
Zhu, Kangyu
Li, Haoran
Wang, Tianze
Shi, Weijia
Wang, Sheng
Zhang, Linjun
Zou, James
Yao, Huaxiu
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant potential in healthcare, particularly in disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Recent progress in Medical Large Vision-Language Models (Med-LVLMs) has opened up new possibilities for interactive diagnostic tools. However, these models often suffer from factual hallucination, which can lead to incorrect diagnoses. Fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have emerged as methods to address these issues. However, the amount of high-quality data and distribution shifts between training data and deployment data limit the application of fine-tuning methods. Although RAG is lightweight and effective, existing RAG-based approaches are not sufficiently general to different medical domains and can potentially cause misalignment issues, both between modalities and between the model and the ground truth. In this paper, we propose a versatile multimodal RAG system, MMed-RAG, designed to enhance the factuality of Med-LVLMs. Our approach introduces a domain-aware retrieval mechanism, an adaptive retrieved contexts selection method, and a provable RAG-based preference fine-tuning strategy. These innovations make the RAG process sufficiently general and reliable, significantly improving alignment when introducing retrieved contexts. Experimental results across five medical datasets (involving radiology, ophthalmology, pathology) on medical VQA and report generation demonstrate that MMed-RAG can achieve an average improvement of 43.8% in the factual accuracy of Med-LVLMs. Our data and code are available in https://github.com/richard-peng-xia/MMed-RAG.
title MMed-RAG: Versatile Multimodal RAG System for Medical Vision Language Models
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13085