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New VLM Framework Enhances Clinical Cancer Referral Processing

Researchers have developed RAPTOR+, a multimodal framework utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enhance the processing of clinical cancer referrals. This system aims to improve trust and auditability by directly linking extracted information to visual evidence within referral documents. Evaluations on colorectal cancer referrals demonstrated that fine-tuned models, specifically Qwen3-VL-8B, significantly outperformed zero-shot models like Gemini 2.5 Flash in both reading accuracy and verifiable evidence grounding, highlighting the necessity of task-specific fine-tuning for reliable clinical document understanding. AI

IMPACT Task-specific fine-tuning of VLMs is crucial for reliable clinical document understanding, improving accuracy and auditability in healthcare referrals.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Sofiat Abioye, Ufaq Khan, Shazad Ashraf, Anusha Jose, Benjamin Wallace, William Poulett, Adam Byfield, Lukman Akanbi, Muhammad Bilal ·

    RAPTOR+: A Visually Grounded Vision-Language Framework to Improve Clinical Trust and Auditability in Automated Cancer Referral Processing

    arXiv:2605.25956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urgent suspected colorectal cancer (CRC) referrals create operational bottlenecks because semi-structured clinical documents often require manual review and transcription. The original RAPTOR system used Large Language Models for st…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Muhammad Bilal ·

    RAPTOR+: A Visually Grounded Vision-Language Framework to Improve Clinical Trust and Auditability in Automated Cancer Referral Processing

    Urgent suspected colorectal cancer (CRC) referrals create operational bottlenecks because semi-structured clinical documents often require manual review and transcription. The original RAPTOR system used Large Language Models for structured extraction but relied on a separate OCR…