On Large Visual Language Models for Medical Imaging Analysis: An Empirical Study

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have taken the spotlight in natural language processing. Further, integrating LLMs with vision enables the users to explore emergent abilities with multimodal data. Visual language models (VLMs), such as LLaVA, Flamingo, or CLIP, have demonstrated impressive pe...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (Online) S. 172 - 176
Hauptverfasser: Van, Minh-Hao, Verma, Prateek, Wu, Xintao
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 19.06.2024
Schlagworte:
Analytical models
Biological system modeling
Brain modeling
Magnetic resonance imaging
medical imaging analysis
Microscopy
Robustness
visual language model
Visualization
zero-shot learning
ISSN:2832-2975
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Zusammenfassung:Recently, large language models (LLMs) have taken the spotlight in natural language processing. Further, integrating LLMs with vision enables the users to explore emergent abilities with multimodal data. Visual language models (VLMs), such as LLaVA, Flamingo, or CLIP, have demonstrated impressive performance on various visio-linguistic tasks. Consequently, there are enormous applications of large models that could be potentially used in the biomedical imaging field. Along that direction, there is a lack of related work to show the ability of large models to diagnose the diseases. In this work, we study the zero-shot and few-shot robustness of VLMs on the medical imaging analysis tasks. Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of VLMs in analyzing biomedical images such as brain MRIs, microscopic images of blood cells, and chest X- rays. While VLMs can not outperform classic vision models like CNN or ResNet, it is worth noting that VLMs can serve as chat assistants to provide pre-diagnosis before making decisions without the need for retraining or finetuning stages.
ISSN:2832-2975
DOI:10.1109/CHASE60773.2024.00029