Medical Image Understanding Improves Survival Prediction via Visual Instruction Tuning

ArXi:2604.18250v1 Announce Type: new Accurate prognostication and risk estimation are essential for guiding clinical decision-making and optimizing patient management. While radiologist-assessed features from CT scans provide valuable indicators of disease severity and outcomes, interpreting such images requires expert knowledge, and translating rich visual information into textual summaries inevitably leads to information loss.