Doctor Sun: A Bilingual Multimodal Large Language Model for Biomedical AI

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Main Authors: Xue, Dong, Shao, Ziyao, Duan, Zhaoyang, Liu, Fangzhou, Li, Bing, Zhang, Zhongheng
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author Xue, Dong
Shao, Ziyao
Duan, Zhaoyang
Liu, Fangzhou
Li, Bing
Zhang, Zhongheng
author_facet Xue, Dong
Shao, Ziyao
Duan, Zhaoyang
Liu, Fangzhou
Li, Bing
Zhang, Zhongheng
contents Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated significant potential in providing innovative solutions for various biomedical tasks, including pathology analysis, radiology report generation, and biomedical assistance. However, the existing multimodal biomedical AI is typically based on foundation LLMs, thus hindering the understanding of intricate medical concepts with limited medical training data. Moreover, recent LLaVA-induced medical LMMs struggle to effectively capture the intricate relationship between the texts and the images. Therefore, we introduce Doctor Sun, a large multimodal generative model specialized in medicine, developed to encode, integrate, and interpret diverse biomedical data modalities such as text and images. In particular, Doctor Sun integrates a pre-trained vision encoder with a medical LLM and conducts two-stage training on various medical datasets, focusing on feature alignment and instruction tuning. Moreover, we release SunMed-VL, a wide-range bilingual medical multimodal dataset, along with all associated models, code, and resources, to freely support the advancement of biomedical multimodal research.
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spellingShingle Doctor Sun: A Bilingual Multimodal Large Language Model for Biomedical AI
Xue, Dong
Shao, Ziyao
Duan, Zhaoyang
Liu, Fangzhou
Li, Bing
Zhang, Zhongheng
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Multimedia
Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated significant potential in providing innovative solutions for various biomedical tasks, including pathology analysis, radiology report generation, and biomedical assistance. However, the existing multimodal biomedical AI is typically based on foundation LLMs, thus hindering the understanding of intricate medical concepts with limited medical training data. Moreover, recent LLaVA-induced medical LMMs struggle to effectively capture the intricate relationship between the texts and the images. Therefore, we introduce Doctor Sun, a large multimodal generative model specialized in medicine, developed to encode, integrate, and interpret diverse biomedical data modalities such as text and images. In particular, Doctor Sun integrates a pre-trained vision encoder with a medical LLM and conducts two-stage training on various medical datasets, focusing on feature alignment and instruction tuning. Moreover, we release SunMed-VL, a wide-range bilingual medical multimodal dataset, along with all associated models, code, and resources, to freely support the advancement of biomedical multimodal research.
title Doctor Sun: A Bilingual Multimodal Large Language Model for Biomedical AI
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08270