医学多模态模型能精准定位图像像素,支持自由标记与问答。
Towards a Multimodal Large Language Model with Pixel-Level Insight for Biomedicine
- 采用分阶段MoE训练策略,实现视觉-语言与像素定位双专家协同。
- 在像素定位任务上零样本测试中,小模型和大模型分别领先19.7和15.6点mDice。
- 首个支持点、框、自由形状等像素级指令的医学多模态模型,适合临床辅助研究。
近年来,多模态大语言模型(MLLM)取得显著进展,展示了构建智能医学助手的可行性。然而,现有医学MLLM主要聚焦图像级理解,交互仅限于文本命令,限制了其能力边界与使用灵活性。本文提出一种新型端到端医学多模态大语言模型MedPLIB,具备像素级理解能力。该模型支持视觉问答(VQA)、任意像素级提示(点、边界框、自由形状)及像素级定位。我们设计了一种新的混合专家(MoE)多阶段训练策略,将MoE分为视觉-语言专家与像素定位专家的独立训练阶段,再通过MoE微调。该策略有效协调多任务学习,推理时计算开销等同单个专家模型。为推动医学MLLM研究,我们构建了包含8种模态的医学复杂视觉问答数据集MeCoVQA,用于复杂医学影像问答与区域理解。实验表明,MedPLIB在多个医学视觉语言任务中达到最先进性能。尤其在像素定位任务的零样本评估中,小模型与大模型的mDice指标分别领先19.7和15.6点。代码、数据与模型检查点将公开于https://github.com/ShawnHuang497/MedPLIB。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In recent years, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) have achieved notable advancements, demonstrating the feasibility of developing an intelligent biomedical assistant. However, current biomedical MLLMs predominantly focus on image-level understanding and restrict interactions to textual commands, thus limiting their capability boundaries and the flexibility of usage. In this paper, we introduce a novel end-to-end multimodal large language model for the biomedical domain, named MedPLIB, which possesses pixel-level understanding. Excitingly, it supports visual question answering (VQA), arbitrary pixel-level prompts (points, bounding boxes, and free-form shapes), and pixel-level grounding. We propose a novel Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) multi-stage training strategy, which divides MoE into separate training phases for a visual-language expert model and a pixel-grounding expert model, followed by fine-tuning using MoE. This strategy effectively coordinates multitask learning while maintaining the computational cost at inference equivalent to that of a single expert model. To advance the research of biomedical MLLMs, we introduce the Medical Complex Vision Question Answering Dataset (MeCoVQA), which comprises an array of 8 modalities for complex medical imaging question answering and image region understanding. Experimental results indicate that MedPLIB has achieved state-of-the-art outcomes across multiple medical visual language tasks. More importantly, in zero-shot evaluations for the pixel grounding task, MedPLIB leads the best small and large models by margins of 19.7 and 15.6 respectively on the mDice metric. The codes, data, and model checkpoints will be made publicly available at https://github.com/ShawnHuang497/MedPLIB.
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