PubMedCLIP in Medical Visual Question Answering

This repository includes PubMedCLIP, the fine-tuned version of CLIP with ROCO image--caption pairs. We also provide the pipelines for encorporating PubMedCLIP as the alternative pre-trained visual encoder in MEVF and QCR medical visual question answering pipelines. Our experiments illustrate that PubMedCLIP results in up tp 3% improvement in the medical visual question answering.

Citation

If you use this work in academic publication, please cite the arXiv paper by Sedigheh Eslami, Gerard de Melo, and Christoph Meinel:

Sedigheh Eslami, Gerard de Melo, Christoph Meinel (2021). 
Does CLIP Benefit Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain as Much as it Does in the General Domain?
arXiv e-prints 2112.13906, 2021.

BibTeX entry:

@article{EslamiDeMeloMeinel2021CLIPMedical,
  author = {{Eslami}, Sedigheh and {de Melo}, Gerard and {Meinel}, Christoph},
   title = {Does {CLIP} Benefit Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain as Much as it Does in the General Domain?},
  journal = {arXiv e-prints},
  keywords = {Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Machine Learning},
  year = 2021,
  month = dec,
  eid = {arXiv:2112.13906},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2112.13906},
  primaryClass = {cs.CV},
}