Overview of the MEDIQA-WV 2025 Shared Task on Woundcare Visual Question Answering

Wen-wai Yim, Asma Ben Abacha, Meliha Yetisgen, Fei Xia


Abstract
Electronic messaging through patient portals facilitates remote care, connecting patients with doctors through asynchronous communication. While convenient, this new modality places an additional burden on physicians, requiring them to provide remote care as well as to see patients in clinic. Technology that can automatically draft responses for physician review is a promising way to improve clinical efficiency. Here, building on the 2024 MEDIQA Multilingual Multi-modal Medical Answer Generation (MEDIQA-M3G) challenge on dermatology, we present the 2025 MEDIQA Woundcare Visual Question Answering (MEDIQA-WV) shared task focusing on generating clinical responses to patient text and image queries. Three teams participated and submitted a total of fourteen systems. In this paper, we describe the task, datasets, as well as the participating systems and their results. We hope that this work can inspire future research on wound care visual question answering.
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2025.clinicalnlp-1.3
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Proceedings of the 7th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
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October
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2025
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Virtual
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Asma Ben Abacha, Steven Bethard, Danielle Bitterman, Tristan Naumann, Kirk Roberts
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Wen-wai Yim, Asma Ben Abacha, Meliha Yetisgen, and Fei Xia. 2025. Overview of the MEDIQA-WV 2025 Shared Task on Woundcare Visual Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 7th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 17–21, Virtual. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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