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MedUAG: Unified Understanding and Generation for Medical Multimodal Models

arXiv cs.CL Medical/Healthcare AI Zijie Meng, Yuncheng Zhang, Hualiang Wang, Yitian Tang, Xiaotang Gai, Chen Shen, Songtao Jiang, Shaosheng Cao, Jian Wu, Xian Wu, Zuozhu Liu 2026-08-19
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TL;DR - MedUAG is a unified medical multimodal model designed to handle both image understanding and generation. It is paired with a 6-million-instance training corpus and a standardized 12-task benchmark, providing a foundation for developing and evaluating unified medical AI systems.

  • MedUAGCorpus spans more than 6 million instances across 14 medical imaging modalities.
  • MedUAGBench evaluates medical generation across 12 diverse tasks under standardized protocols.
  • MedUAG is trained end to end for both multimodal understanding and generation.
  • Experiments report strong performance across varied tasks, establishing a competitive baseline for future medical multimodal research.

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