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New VLM framework automates cardiac MRI quality assessment for ablation planning

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Researchers have developed a novel two-stage vision language model (VLM) framework to automate the assessment of clinical quality and usability for LGE-MR images used in cardiac ablation planning. The first stage employs a fine-tuned VLM to generate radiology-style reports on criteria like noise, motion artifacts, and boundary accuracy. The second stage uses a GPT-based module to map these reports to structured quality scores and a binary decision on clinical usability. In benchmarking, InternVL2 showed high accuracy in criterion-level assessment, while DeepSeek achieved perfect agreement on clinical usability. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more consistent and scalable quality assessment of medical imaging, improving the safety and outcomes of cardiac ablation procedures.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Bipasha Kundu, Abhishek Chaturvedi, Axel W. E. Wismueller, Richard Simon, Cristian A. Linte ·

    Toward Vision Language Model-based Assessment of Clinical Quality and Usability of LGE-MR Images for Cardiac Ablation Planning

    arXiv:2608.21180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LGE cardiac MRI is widely used for left atrial fibrosis assessment and ablation planning in atrial fibrillation patients as knowledge of fibrotic tissue regions identified from LGE-MRI is critical for catheter ablation. Often, poo…

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