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CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement

A clinically useful chest X-ray system must go beyond fluent report generation: it should classify findings with tunable decision thresholds, localize them spatially, and derive the anatomical measurements upon which many diagnoses depend. Today's Vision-Language Models (VLMs) treat these as separate problems, if they address them at all, leaving a gap between what radiologists need and what gener...

Aug 4 2026 2608.03890v1

Localize, Don't Beautify: Client-Side Control of Image-Editing APIs for Cosmetic Surgery Previews

Ask a commercial image editor to preview a cosmetic procedure and it will often change more of the face than the request names: a nose edit can also smooth skin or alter lighting. Existing methods for confining an edit to one region require access to the model's internals, which a public editing API does not expose. We ask how much control is possible from the client side alone. In a pilot benchma...

Aug 3 2026 2608.02841v1
Learning Where to Look and How to Judge: Resolution-agnostic Image Quality Assessment with Quality-aware Saliency

No-reference image quality assessment (NR IQA) has recently benefited from deep and multimodal models, yet many SOTA systems still violate at least on...

Aug 3 2026 2608.01730v1
Learning Not to Optimize: Physics-Informed Action-Space Reshaping for Intent-Based Network Control

Modern network policy control maps intent to sequential placement-control decisions. Bellman-style policy optimization primarily asks which action to ...

Aug 2 2026 2608.00908v1
Automating clinical trial outcome identification and misreporting detection using RegCheck

Objective To evaluate the accuracy and cost of RegCheck, an automated large language model (LLM)-based workflow, for identifying clinical trial outcom...

CBCT-IQ: A Publicly Available Annotated Cone-Beam CT Dataset for Image Quality Assessment and Benchmarking

Medical image quality plays a critical role in diagnostic accuracy, especially in X-ray-based imaging modalities such as cone-beam computed tomography...

Jul 31 2026 2607.29253v1
Smartphone Imaging for Remote Monitoring of Inflammatory Arthritis in a Real-World Cohort: Longitudinal Evaluation of a Machine Learning-Based Finger Fold Biomarker

Background: Smartphone enabled remote patient monitoring has the potential to complement conventional follow-up in inflammatory arthritis. We previous...

SpatialQ: Understanding 3D Gaussian Splatting Scene Quality via Visual-based MLLM

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an effective representation for novel view synthesis and 3D scene reconstruction, creating an increasing d...

Jul 29 2026 2607.26595v1
Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Coherent Emergency Department Forecasting

Emergency Departments (EDs) are critical access points in healthcare systems, yet they face persistent pressure from unpredictable patient demand, sea...

Jul 29 2026 2607.27106v1
Cost-Sensitive Conformal Prediction and Human-in-the-Loop Abstention for Imbalanced High-Stakes Decision Support: A Multi-Domain Benchmark

High-stakes decision systems in credit scoring, fraud detection, healthcare, and industrial safety require reliable uncertainty quantification under s...

Jul 29 2026 2607.27143v1
Anatomy Contextualized Adaption of CT Foundation Models

CT vision-language foundation models have demonstrated promising performance across downstream tasks, but are typically trained with whole-volume repr...

Jul 29 2026 2607.27154v1
What it takes to implement AI in Africa: health-system lessons from developing an ML-enabled maternal risk stratification algorithm in Tanzania

Background Machine learning (ML) has growing potential to support early identification of high-risk pregnancies in resource-constrained settings. Howe...

Agentic Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyst for Administrative Modernization: The Beginning of the End for Traditional Fax Workflows in Healthcare

Background: Healthcare has witnessed administrative staffing roles balloon to twice the number of employed clinicians, resulting in $950 billion per y...

Safety-Aware Cascaded Inference for Crop Damage Assessment with Controlled Error Trade-offs

In picture-based agricultural insurance for smallholder farmers, missed damage detections carry substantially higher cost than false alarms: a farmer ...

Jul 28 2026 2607.25468v1
OPERA: Offline Policy-guided Expert Routing and Adaptation for Universal Biomedical Image Analysis

Biomedical image analysis spans diverse modalities and tasks, yet real-world deployment is hindered by severe distribution shifts across scanners, pro...

Jul 27 2026 2607.25108v1
A Multi-Schedule Machine Learning Pipeline for Medicare Reimbursement Change Prediction and Operational Risk Stratification

FeePredict is a three-stage random forest machine learning framework to simul-taneously predict whether Medicare reimbursement rates for specific proc...

Cross-Domain Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning for Contextual Bandits

Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning (OPE/L) in contextual bandits is rapidly gaining popularity in real systems because new policies can be evaluated a...

Jul 24 2026 2607.22012v1
GLI-AL: A Multi-Modal Glioma MRI Label Resource with Unified Anatomy-Lesion Labels

Existing BraTS-GLI datasets provide a widely used benchmark for adult glioma MRI segmentation, but their task definition focuses on tumor subregions a...

Jul 24 2026 2607.22135v1
KroQuant: Kronecker-Structured Block Transforms for Efficient Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Transformers

Post-training quantization (PTQ) of diffusion transformers (DiTs) to W4A4 severely degrades output quality, because activations entering each linear l...

Jul 23 2026 2607.21446v1
Visual Contrastive Self-Distillation

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is promising as it removes the external teacher required by on-policy distillation (OPD), yet it still needs asymme...

Jul 23 2026 2607.21556v1
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