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Towards Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Visual Question Answering

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A novel multimodal RAG framework tailored for MedVQA is proposed, which leverages multimodal data, including medical images, reports, and generated captions, to provide more accurate clinical answers, and introduces a training paradigm that uses captions as auxiliary supervision, enhancing cross-modal alignment via contrastive learning.

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