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New benchmark enhances clinical interpretability in ophthalmic VQA

Researchers have developed FundusGround, a new benchmark for ophthalmic visual question answering (VQA) that emphasizes clinical interpretability and evidence grounding. The benchmark includes over 10,000 fundus images with meticulously annotated lesions, spatially localized using the ETDRS grid for clinical relevance. This dataset supports the generation of over 72,000 questions, and experiments show that incorporating lesion-level evidence improves both model accuracy and transparency in medical VQA systems. AI

IMPACT Introduces a new benchmark for training and evaluating medical AI, potentially improving diagnostic transparency and accuracy in ophthalmology.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiang Liu ·

    Towards Clinically Interpretable Ophthalmic VQA via Spatially-Grounded Lesion Evidence

    Visual Question Answering (VQA) holds great promise for clinical support, particularly in ophthalmology, where retinal fundus photography is essential for diagnosis. However, ophthalmic VQA benchmarks primarily emphasize answer accuracy, neglecting the explicit visual evidence ne…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Xingyue Wang, Bo Liu, Meng Wang, Zhixuan Zhang, Chengcheng Zhu, Huazhu Fu, Jiang Liu ·

    Towards Clinically Interpretable Ophthalmic VQA via Spatially-Grounded Lesion Evidence

    arXiv:2605.22414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Question Answering (VQA) holds great promise for clinical support, particularly in ophthalmology, where retinal fundus photography is essential for diagnosis. However, ophthalmic VQA benchmarks primarily emphasize answer accu…