MedThink: A Rationale-Guided Framework for Explaining Medical Visual Question Answering (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for medical visual question answering are limited in their interpretation and interpretation . a semi-automated annotation process is used to streamline data preparation and build new benchmark datasets . |
| Approach: | They propose a semi-automated annotation process to streamline data preparation and build new benchmark Med-VQA datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves an accuracy of 83.5% on R-RAD, 86.3% on RSLAKE and 87.2% on RPath. |
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