Table 7 Comparison of clinically relevant pathology terms recognition and expert-perceived alignment (scale 1-5)

From: PlaqueCap: lesion-centered captioning of atherosclerotic plaques in intravascular ultrasound using vision-language models and prompt injection

Model

Pathology-term F1 ↑

Expert alignment score ↑

BLIP-2

0.721

3.9

GIT

0.689

3.8

PathoCap

0.651

3.7

PMC-VQA

0.632

3.6

PlaqueCap (Ours)

0.781

4.4

  1. Our approach significantly improves lesion-specific terminology coverage and expert interpretability.
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