EAGLE: Expert-Guided Self-Enhancement for Preference Alignment in Pathology Large Vision-Language Model (2025.acl-long)
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Meidan Ding, Jipeng Zhang, Wenxuan Wang, Haiqin Zhong, Xiaoqin Wang, Xinheng Lyu, Wenting Chen, Linlin Shen
| Challenge: | Recent advances in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) show promise for pathological diagnosis, yet their application in clinical settings faces critical challenges of multimodal hallucination and biased responses. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates medical expertise into preference alignment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing pathological LVLMs while maintaining pathological accuracy. |
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