DiagR1: A Vision-Language Model Trained via Reinforcement Learning for Digestive Pathology Diagnosis

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Main Authors: Ouyang, Minxi, Zhu, Lianghui, Bao, Yaqing, Huang, Qiang, Ouyang, Jingli, Guan, Tian, Ling, Xitong, Li, Jiawen, Duan, Song, Dai, Wenbin, Zheng, Li, Zhang, Xuemei, He, Yonghong
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author Ouyang, Minxi
Zhu, Lianghui
Bao, Yaqing
Huang, Qiang
Ouyang, Jingli
Guan, Tian
Ling, Xitong
Li, Jiawen
Duan, Song
Dai, Wenbin
Zheng, Li
Zhang, Xuemei
He, Yonghong
author_facet Ouyang, Minxi
Zhu, Lianghui
Bao, Yaqing
Huang, Qiang
Ouyang, Jingli
Guan, Tian
Ling, Xitong
Li, Jiawen
Duan, Song
Dai, Wenbin
Zheng, Li
Zhang, Xuemei
He, Yonghong
contents Multimodal large models have shown great potential in automating pathology image analysis. However, current multimodal models for gastrointestinal pathology are constrained by both data quality and reasoning transparency: pervasive noise and incomplete annotations in public datasets predispose vision language models to factual hallucinations when generating diagnostic text, while the absence of explicit intermediate reasoning chains renders the outputs difficult to audit and thus less trustworthy in clinical practice. To address these issues, we construct a large scale gastrointestinal pathology dataset containing both microscopic descriptions and diagnostic conclusions, and propose a prompt argumentation strategy that incorporates lesion classification and anatomical site information. This design guides the model to better capture image specific features and maintain semantic consistency in generation. Furthermore, we employ a post training pipeline that combines supervised fine tuning with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to improve reasoning quality and output structure. Experimental results on real world pathology report generation tasks demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state of the art open source and proprietary baselines in terms of generation quality, structural completeness, and clinical relevance. Our solution outperforms state of the art models with 18.7% higher clinical relevance, 32.4% improved structural completeness, and 41.2% fewer diagnostic errors, demonstrating superior accuracy and clinical utility compared to existing solutions.
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spellingShingle DiagR1: A Vision-Language Model Trained via Reinforcement Learning for Digestive Pathology Diagnosis
Ouyang, Minxi
Zhu, Lianghui
Bao, Yaqing
Huang, Qiang
Ouyang, Jingli
Guan, Tian
Ling, Xitong
Li, Jiawen
Duan, Song
Dai, Wenbin
Zheng, Li
Zhang, Xuemei
He, Yonghong
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimodal large models have shown great potential in automating pathology image analysis. However, current multimodal models for gastrointestinal pathology are constrained by both data quality and reasoning transparency: pervasive noise and incomplete annotations in public datasets predispose vision language models to factual hallucinations when generating diagnostic text, while the absence of explicit intermediate reasoning chains renders the outputs difficult to audit and thus less trustworthy in clinical practice. To address these issues, we construct a large scale gastrointestinal pathology dataset containing both microscopic descriptions and diagnostic conclusions, and propose a prompt argumentation strategy that incorporates lesion classification and anatomical site information. This design guides the model to better capture image specific features and maintain semantic consistency in generation. Furthermore, we employ a post training pipeline that combines supervised fine tuning with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to improve reasoning quality and output structure. Experimental results on real world pathology report generation tasks demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state of the art open source and proprietary baselines in terms of generation quality, structural completeness, and clinical relevance. Our solution outperforms state of the art models with 18.7% higher clinical relevance, 32.4% improved structural completeness, and 41.2% fewer diagnostic errors, demonstrating superior accuracy and clinical utility compared to existing solutions.
title DiagR1: A Vision-Language Model Trained via Reinforcement Learning for Digestive Pathology Diagnosis
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18433