arxivcs.CLcs.CV2026-07-16
Beyond the Leaderboard: Design Lessons for Trustworthy Multimodal VQA
Sushant Gautam, Vajira Thambawita, Michael A. Riegler, Pål Halvorsen, Steven A. Hicks
Healthcare multimodal AI must combine visual and textual evidence while remaining reliable and interpretable. Using MediaEval Medico 2025 as a retrospective GI endoscopy case study, we analyze design choices across nine documented systems for question answering and explanation qu…