SCALPEL: Semantic Cross-modal Alignment via LLM-Powered Encoder Learning for Medical Vision-Language Representation

Yunzhan Fu, Enyu Bao, Xiangyu Shen +4

The paper introduces SCALPEL, a framework that fine‑tunes a generative medical LLM into an isotropic encoder and uses an asymmetric, anatomy‑negation‑aware contrastive objective to…