10 papers
On the Robustness of Temporal Vision-Language Models for Surgical Endoscopy Videos
Darakshan Rashid, Raza Imam, Ufaq Khan +9
Temporal vision-language models (TVLMs) offer a reusable, prompt-based interface for surgical video understanding, yet, their robustness under clinically realistic acquisition arti…
PathWISE: Multi-Agent Cancer Pathway Triaging Ontology Learning from Clinical Flowcharts
Sofiat Abioye, Ufaq Khan, Shazad Ashraf +6
Clinical pathways are disseminated as visual flowcharts where spatial topology, arrow direction, colour coding, and font weight encode critical triage logic that remains inaccessib…
RAPTOR+: A Visually Grounded Vision-Language Framework to Improve Clinical Trust and Auditability in Automated Cancer Referral Processing
Sofiat Abioye, Ufaq Khan, Shazad Ashraf +4
Urgent suspected colorectal cancer (CRC) referrals create operational bottlenecks because semi-structured clinical documents often require manual review and transcription. The orig…
Same Patient, Different Words, Different Diagnosis? Evaluating Semantic Stability in Clinical LLMs
Mahdi Alkaeed, Adnan Qayyum, Nabeel Abo Kashreef +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in clinical applications. However, their behavior remains highly sensitive to subtle linguistic variations, such as rephrasing or…
MLLM-HWSI: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Hierarchical Whole Slide Image Understanding
Basit Alawode, Arif Mahmood, Muaz Khalifa Al-Radi +6
Whole Slide Images (WSIs) exhibit hierarchical structure, where diagnostic information emerges from cellular morphology, regional tissue organization, and global context. Existing…
MedObvious: Exposing the Medical Moravec's Paradox in VLMs via Clinical Triage
Ufaq Khan, Umair Nawaz, L D M S S Teja +5
Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used for tasks like medical report generation and visual question answering. However, fluent diagnostic text does not guarantee safe…