RadImageNet-VQA: A Large-Scale CT and MRI Dataset for Radiologic Visual Question Answering

Léo Butsanets, Charles Corbière, Julien Khlaut, Pierre Manceron, Corentin Dancette

Keywords: Medical Visual Question Answering, Vision-Language Models, Radiology.

TL;DR: We introduce a challenging large-scale radiologic VQA dataset designed for training and benchmarking Vision-Language Models on CT and MRI exams.

Abstract: In this work, we introduce RadImageNet-VQA, a large-scale dataset designed to advance radiologic visual question answering (VQA) on CT and MRI exams. While existing medical VQA datasets are limited in scale, dominated by X-ray imaging or biomedical illustrations, and prone to text-based shortcuts, RadImageNet-VQA is built from expert-curated annotations and provides 750K images paired with 7.5M QA samples. It covers three key tasks—abnormality detection, anatomy recognition, and pathology identification—spanning 8 anatomical regions and 97 pathology categories, and supports open-ended, closed-ended, and multiple-choice questions. Extensive experiments show that state-of-the-art vision-language models still struggle with fine-grained pathology identification, especially in open-ended settings and even after fine-tuning. Text-only analysis further reveals that model accuracies collapse to near-random without image inputs, confirming that RadImageNet-VQA is free from linguistic shortcuts. The full dataset and benchmark are publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/raidium/RadImageNet-VQA.

Primary Subject Area: Generative Models

Secondary Subject Area: Application: Radiology

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Submission Number: 280