MiniGPT-Med: Large Language Model as a General Interface for Radiology Diagnosis

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Abstract: Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have precipitated significant breakthroughs in healthcare, particularly in the refinement of diagnostic procedures. However, previous studies have often been limited to limited functionalities. This study introduces MiniGPT-Med, a vision-language model derived from large-scale language models and tailored for medical applications. MiniGPT-Med demonstrates remarkable versatility across various imaging modalities, including X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs, enhancing its utility. The model is capable of performing tasks such as medical report generation, visual question answering (VQA), and disease identification within medical imagery. Its integrated processing of both image and textual clinical data markedly improves diagnostic accuracy. Our empirical assessments confirm the superior performance of MiniGPT-Med in disease detection, medical report generation, and VQA benchmarks, representing a significant step towards reducing the gap in assisting radiology practice. Furthermore, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on medical report generation, higher than the previous best model by 19\% accuracy. MiniGPT-Med promises to become a general interface for radiology diagnoses, enhancing diagnostic efficiency across a wide range of medical imaging applications.

Submission Length: Regular submission (no more than 12 pages of main content)

Assigned Action Editor: ~Jan-Willem_van_de_Meent1

Submission Number: 5475