Anatomy-VLM: A Fine-grained Vision-Language Model for Medical Interpretation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08402v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:57:26 GMT
• Title: Anatomy-VLM: A Fine-grained Vision-Language Model for Medical Interpretation
• Authors: Difei Gu, Yunhe Gao, Mu Zhou, Dimitris Metaxas,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Anatomy-VLM, a vision-language model that incorporates multi-scale information.<n>First, we design a model encoder to localize key anatomical features from entire medical images.<n>Second, these regions are enriched with structured knowledge for contextually-aware interpretation.<n>Third, the model encoder aligns multi-scale medical information to generate clinically-interpretable disease prediction.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate disease interpretation from radiology remains challenging due to imaging heterogeneity. Achieving expert-level diagnostic decisions requires integration of subtle image features with clinical knowledge. Yet major vision-language models (VLMs) treat images as holistic entities and overlook fine-grained image details that are vital for disease diagnosis. Clinicians analyze images by utilizing their prior medical knowledge and identify anatomical structures as important region of interests (ROIs). Inspired from this human-centric workflow, we introduce Anatomy-VLM, a fine-grained, vision-language model that incorporates multi-scale information. First, we design a model encoder to localize key anatomical features from entire medical images. Second, these regions are enriched with structured knowledge for contextually-aware interpretation. Finally, the model encoder aligns multi-scale medical information to generate clinically-interpretable disease prediction. Anatomy-VLM achieves outstanding performance on both in- and out-of-distribution datasets. We also validate the performance of Anatomy-VLM on downstream image segmentation tasks, suggesting that its fine-grained alignment captures anatomical and pathology-related knowledge. Furthermore, the Anatomy-VLM's encoder facilitates zero-shot anatomy-wise interpretation, providing its strong expert-level clinical interpretation capabilities.

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