Microsoft Introduces CARE-X for Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs
Microsoft Research introduced CARE-X, a framework for radiology vision-language models (VLMs) that combines auxiliary supervision, reward-aligned learning, and tool-augmented measurement to improve chest X-ray interpretation. It aims to move beyond report generation toward flexible reasoning and calibrated predictions.
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