Detecting and Evaluating Medical Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10185v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:14:22 GMT
• Title: Detecting and Evaluating Medical Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models
• Authors: Jiawei Chen, Dingkang Yang, Tong Wu, Yue Jiang, Xiaolu Hou, Mingcheng Li, Shunli Wang, Dongling Xiao, Ke Li, Lihua Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly integral to healthcare applications. LVLMs inherit susceptibility to hallucinations-a significant concern in high-stakes medical contexts. We introduce Med-HallMark, the first benchmark specifically designed for hallucination detection and evaluation. We also present MediHallDetector, a novel Medical LVLM engineered for precise hallucination detection.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly integral to healthcare applications, including medical visual question answering and imaging report generation. While these models inherit the robust capabilities of foundational Large Language Models (LLMs), they also inherit susceptibility to hallucinations-a significant concern in high-stakes medical contexts where the margin for error is minimal. However, currently, there are no dedicated methods or benchmarks for hallucination detection and evaluation in the medical field. To bridge this gap, we introduce Med-HallMark, the first benchmark specifically designed for hallucination detection and evaluation within the medical multimodal domain. This benchmark provides multi-tasking hallucination support, multifaceted hallucination data, and hierarchical hallucination categorization. Furthermore, we propose the MediHall Score, a new medical evaluative metric designed to assess LVLMs' hallucinations through a hierarchical scoring system that considers the severity and type of hallucination, thereby enabling a granular assessment of potential clinical impacts. We also present MediHallDetector, a novel Medical LVLM engineered for precise hallucination detection, which employs multitask training for hallucination detection. Through extensive experimental evaluations, we establish baselines for popular LVLMs using our benchmark. The findings indicate that MediHall Score provides a more nuanced understanding of hallucination impacts compared to traditional metrics and demonstrate the enhanced performance of MediHallDetector. We hope this work can significantly improve the reliability of LVLMs in medical applications. All resources of this work will be released soon.

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