Sushvin Marimuthu


2024

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LTRC-IIITH at MEDIQA-M3G 2024: Medical Visual Question Answering with Vision-Language Models
Jerrin Thomas | Sushvin Marimuthu | Parameswari Krishnamurthy
Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop

In this paper, we present our work to the MEDIQA-M3G 2024 shared task, which tackles multilingual and multimodal medical answer generation. Our system consists of a lightweight Vision-and-Language Transformer (ViLT) model which is fine-tuned for the clinical dermatology visual question-answering task. In the official leaderboard for the task, our system ranks 6th. After the challenge, we experiment with training the ViLT model on more data. We also explore the capabilities of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as Gemini and LLaVA.