Ling Zhang
Author directory2026
BreastGPT: A Multimodal Large Language Model for the Full Spectrum of Breast Cancer Clinical Routine
Yang Liu | Jiajin Zhang | Danyang Tu | Yaojun Hu | Jiao Qu | Jiuyu Zhang | Yu Shi | Wei Fang | Shi Gu | Ling Zhang | Yingda Xia
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yang Liu | Jiajin Zhang | Danyang Tu | Yaojun Hu | Jiao Qu | Jiuyu Zhang | Yu Shi | Wei Fang | Shi Gu | Ling Zhang | Yingda Xia
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Breast cancer care requires multimodal reasoning across a clinical workflow spanning screening, diagnosis, and treatment planning. However, existing medical MLLMs are typically limited to isolated modalities or narrow task settings, restricting their ability to support workflow-level clinical reasoning. To address this gap, we introduce BreastStage, a workflow-aligned breast imaging instruction corpus containing 1.86M instruction-following pairs from 17 sub-datasets, 5 imaging modalities, and 136 task templates, together with BreastStage-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating multimodal reasoning across the breast cancer care continuum. Built upon this corpus, we propose BreastGPT, a unified MLLM with a dual-branch visual encoder and concept-preserving token compression to bridge standard radiology and gigapixel pathology. On BreastStage-Bench, BreastGPT achieves 75.66% closed-ended accuracy and 89.92% open-ended score, outperforming both general-purpose and medical-specific MLLMs across clinical stages and task formats. Data, code, and model checkpoints are publicly released at https://anonymous.4open.science/w/BreastGPT_io/.
SeVeR: Selective Visual Exposure and Retrieval for 3D Medical Image Question Answering
Yaojun Hu | Danyang Tu | Yang Liu | Jiajin Zhang | Wei Fang | Zhiqiang Liu | Chunlai Dong | Yingda Xia | Haochao Ying | Jian Wu | Ling Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yaojun Hu | Danyang Tu | Yang Liu | Jiajin Zhang | Wei Fang | Zhiqiang Liu | Chunlai Dong | Yingda Xia | Haochao Ying | Jian Wu | Ling Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Volumetric medical VQA requires reasoning over long and redundant 3D visual token sequences, especially in multi-sequence MRI where complementary modalities provide diverse diagnostic cues but expose the decoder to many repeated anatomical regions. To investigate reasoning under multi-sequence visual redundancy, we first introduce BreMRIs-VQA, a clinically curated breast MRI benchmark with 1.19M QA pairs from 71.0K sequences and 12.9K patients, covering both free-text and multiple-choice questions. We further propose SeVeR, a selective visual exposure framework that compresses dense volumes into modality-wise prototypes and retrieves complementary multi-level evidence with change-aware gated attention during decoding, trained with a marginal-utility self-consistency objective that suppresses unhelpful retrieval. Experiments on BreMRIs-VQA and public benchmarks show that SeVeR improves both discriminative and generative performance while exposing substantially fewer visual tokens.
CT-FineBench: A Diagnostic Fidelity Benchmark for Fine-Grained Evaluation of CT Report Generation
Ruifeng Yuan | Wanxing Chang | Weiwei Cao | Bowen Shi | Zhongyu Wei | Ling Zhang | Jianpeng Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Ruifeng Yuan | Wanxing Chang | Weiwei Cao | Bowen Shi | Zhongyu Wei | Ling Zhang | Jianpeng Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
The evaluation of generated reports remains a critical challenge in Computed Tomography (CT) report generation, due to the large volume of text, the diversity and complexity of findings, and the presence of fine-grained, disease-oriented attributes. Conventional evaluation metrics offer only coarse measures of lexical overlap or entity matching and fail to reflect the granular diagnostic accuracy required for clinical use. To address this gap, we propose CT-FineBench, a benchmark built from CT-RATE and Merlin to evaluate the fine-grained factual consistency of CT reports, constructed from CT-RATE and Merlin. Our benchmark is constructed through a meticulous, Question-Answering (QA) based process: first, we identify and structure key, finding-specific clinical attributes (e.g., location, size, margin). Second, we systematically transform these attributes into a QA dataset, where questions probe for specific clinical details grounded in gold-standard reports. The evaluation protocol for CT-FineBench involves using this QA dataset to query a machine-generated report and scoring the correctness of the answers. This allows for a comprehensive, interpretable, and clinically-relevant assessment, moving beyond superficial lexical overlap to pinpoint specific clinical errors. Experiments show that CT-FineBench correlates better with expert clinical assessment and is substantially more sensitive to fine-grained factual errors than prior metrics.
2012
Zhou qiaoli: A divide-and-conquer strategy for semantic dependency parsing
Qiaoli Zhou | Ling Zhang | Fei Liu | Dongfeng Cai | Guiping Zhang
*SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012)
Qiaoli Zhou | Ling Zhang | Fei Liu | Dongfeng Cai | Guiping Zhang
*SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012)