Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models


Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning Effects on Out-of-Distribution Detection in Dermatology with Vision Foundation Models
Ignazio Gallo,
Leonardo Sgroi,
Mattia Gatti,
Silvia Corchs
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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Gallo_2026_CVPR, author = {Gallo, Ignazio and Sgroi, Leonardo and Gatti, Mattia and Corchs, Silvia}, title = {Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning Effects on Out-of-Distribution Detection in Dermatology with Vision Foundation Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6932-6941} }

When the Right Answer Is Missing: Probing Hallucination in Medical Reasoning Models via NOTA Evaluation
Alperen Demirci,
Ezel Bayraktar,
Bora Dere,
Erkut Erdem,
Aykut Erdem
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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Demirci_2026_CVPR, author = {Demirci, Alperen and Bayraktar, Ezel and Dere, Bora and Erdem, Erkut and Erdem, Aykut}, title = {When the Right Answer Is Missing: Probing Hallucination in Medical Reasoning Models via NOTA Evaluation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6912-6921} }

Parameter-efficient Prompt Tuning and Hierarchical Textual Guidance for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification
Jayanie Bogahawatte,
Sachith Seneviratne,
Saman Halgamuge
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Bogahawatte_2026_CVPR, author = {Bogahawatte, Jayanie and Seneviratne, Sachith and Halgamuge, Saman}, title = {Parameter-efficient Prompt Tuning and Hierarchical Textual Guidance for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6893-6902} }

BSMAD:Bridging Semantic and Structural Manifolds for Robust Cross-Modality Medical Anomaly Detection
Shih-Chih Lin,
Jenq-Neng Hwang,
Shang-Hong Lai
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@InProceedings{Lin_2026_CVPR, author = {Lin, Shih-Chih and Hwang, Jenq-Neng and Lai, Shang-Hong}, title = {BSMAD:Bridging Semantic and Structural Manifolds for Robust Cross-Modality Medical Anomaly Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6952-6960} }

To Agree or To Be Right? The Grounding-Sycophancy Tradeoff in Medical Vision-Language Models
OFM Riaz Rahman Aranya,
Kevin Desai
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Aranya_2026_CVPR, author = {Aranya, OFM Riaz Rahman and Desai, Kevin}, title = {To Agree or To Be Right? The Grounding-Sycophancy Tradeoff in Medical Vision-Language Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6874-6882} }

MOSAIC: Multimodal OA Staging with Adaptive Interpretable Clinical Constraints for Evidence-Grounded Knee MRI Grading
Basit Ali,
Sheheryar Khan,
Rizwan Qureshi,
Muhammad Asim,
Mehmood Nawaz,
Basim Azam
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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ali_2026_CVPR, author = {Ali, Basit and Khan, Sheheryar and Qureshi, Rizwan and Asim, Muhammad and Nawaz, Mehmood and Azam, Basim}, title = {MOSAIC: Multimodal OA Staging with Adaptive Interpretable Clinical Constraints for Evidence-Grounded Knee MRI Grading}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6866-6873} }

Guideline2Graph: Profile-Aware Multimodal Parsing for Executable Clinical Decision Graphs
Onur Selim Kilic,
Yeti Z. Gurbuz,
Cem O. Yaldiz,
Afra Nawar,
Etrit Haxholli,
Oğul Can,
Eli Waxman
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kilic_2026_CVPR, author = {Kilic, Onur Selim and Gurbuz, Yeti Z. and Yaldiz, Cem O. and Nawar, Afra and Haxholli, Etrit and Can, O\u{g}ul and Waxman, Eli}, title = {Guideline2Graph: Profile-Aware Multimodal Parsing for Executable Clinical Decision Graphs}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6942-6951} }

BiomedAP: A Vision-Informed Dual-Anchor Framework with Gated Cross-Modal Fusion for Robust Medical Vision-Language Adaptation
Huanyang Tong,
Kai Liu,
Fangjun Kuang,
Huiling Chen
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Tong_2026_CVPR, author = {Tong, Huanyang and Liu, Kai and Kuang, Fangjun and Chen, Huiling}, title = {BiomedAP: A Vision-Informed Dual-Anchor Framework with Gated Cross-Modal Fusion for Robust Medical Vision-Language Adaptation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6969-6977} }

GIV-CXR: Densely Grounded, Visually Interpretable Chest X-ray Question Answering Dataset
Sreevaatsav Bavana,
Adit Rushil Potta,
Sai Amrit Patnaik,
Nidhi Goyal
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Bavana_2026_CVPR, author = {Bavana, Sreevaatsav and Potta, Adit Rushil and Patnaik, Sai Amrit and Goyal, Nidhi}, title = {GIV-CXR: Densely Grounded, Visually Interpretable Chest X-ray Question Answering Dataset}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6883-6892} }

Consistent but Dangerous: Per-Sample Safety Classification Reveals False Reliability in Medical Vision-Language Models
Binesh Sadanandan,
Vahid Behzadan
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Sadanandan_2026_CVPR, author = {Sadanandan, Binesh and Behzadan, Vahid}, title = {Consistent but Dangerous: Per-Sample Safety Classification Reveals False Reliability in Medical Vision-Language Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6961-6968} }

From Perception to Reasoning: Image-Grounded Knowledge Graphs for Topology-Aware Medical Analysis in Abdominal CT
Udiptaman Das,
Krishnasai Atmakuri,
Duy Ho,
Yugyung Lee
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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Das_2026_CVPR, author = {Das, Udiptaman and Atmakuri, Krishnasai and Ho, Duy and Lee, Yugyung}, title = {From Perception to Reasoning: Image-Grounded Knowledge Graphs for Topology-Aware Medical Analysis in Abdominal CT}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6903-6911} }

Leveraging Image Editing Foundation Models for Data-Efficient Ct Metal Artifact Reduction
Ahmet Rasim Emirdagi,
Suleyman Aslan,
Misra Yavuz,
Gorkay Aydemir,
Yunus Bilge Kurt,
Nasrin Rahimi,
Burak Can Biner,
Mustafa Akin Yilmaz
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Emirdagi_2026_CVPR, author = {Emirdagi, Ahmet Rasim and Aslan, Suleyman and Yavuz, Misra and Aydemir, Gorkay and Kurt, Yunus Bilge and Rahimi, Nasrin and Biner, Burak Can and Yilmaz, Mustafa Akin}, title = {Leveraging Image Editing Foundation Models for Data-Efficient Ct Metal Artifact Reduction}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {6922-6931} }