GMAI-VL & GMAI-VL-5.5M: A Large Vision-Language Model and A
  Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset Towards General Medical AI
Authors: name: Tianbin Li, name: Yanzhou Su, name: Wei Li, name: Bin Fu, name: Zhe Chen, name: Ziyan Huang, name: Guoan Wang, name: Chenglong Ma, name: Ying Chen, name: Ming Hu, name: Yanjun Li, name: Pengcheng Chen, name: Xiaowei Hu, name: Zhongying Deng, name: Yuanfeng Ji, name: Jin Ye, name: Yu Qiao, name: Junjun He

Despite significant advancements in general artificial intelligence, such as
GPT-4, their effectiveness in the medical domain (general medical AI, GMAI)
remains constrained due to the absence of specialized medical knowledge. To
address this challenge, we present GMAI-VL-5.5M, a comprehensive multimodal
medical dataset created by converting hundreds of specialized medical datasets
into meticulously constructed image-text pairs. This dataset features
comprehensive task coverage, diverse modalities, and high-quality image-text
data. Building upon this multimodal dataset, we propose GMAI-VL, a general
medical vision-language model with a progressively three-stage training
strategy. This approach significantly enhances the model's ability by
integrating visual and textual information, thereby improving its ability to
process multimodal data and support accurate diagnosis and clinical
decision-making. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that GMAI-VL achieves
state-of-the-art results across a wide range of multimodal medical tasks, such
as visual question answering and medical image diagnosis. Our contributions
include the development of the GMAI-VL-5.5M dataset, the introduction of the
GMAI-VL model, and the establishment of new benchmarks in multiple medical
domains. Code and dataset will be released at
https://github.com/uni-medical/GMAI-VL.