Wei Gong
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2026
ELTLM: Evaluation of Longitudinal Temporal Large Multimodal Models in Clinical Scenarios
Gengyuan Hu | Haoxiang Liu | Chenhong Cao | Shilei Tan | Wei Gong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Gengyuan Hu | Haoxiang Liu | Chenhong Cao | Shilei Tan | Wei Gong
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated significant potential in the medical domain, achieving impressive performance on tasks ranging from report generation to visual question answering. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on static evaluation, assessing models on isolated data points. This approach neglects a critical aspect of clinical practice: longitudinal analysis, where physicians interpret patient data as a dynamic trajectory to track disease progression and treatment response. To address this gap, we introduce ELTLM, the first benchmark specifically tailored to assess the temporal perception and reasoning capabilities of medical LMMs. Constructed from temporal chest X-rays, ELTLM features a hierarchical task taxonomy comprising Temporal Perception QA and Temporal Reasoning QA, requiring models to detect fine-grained visual changes and infer high-level clinical trends. Our evaluation of state-of-the-art models reveals that while they excel in static scenarios, they struggle significantly with temporal grounding and consistency. ELTLM serves as a vital resource to identify these limitations and guide the development of future time-aware medical AI systems. Our data is available at [ELTLM](https://github.com/ChengFeng233/ELTLM-Bench).