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arxiv: 2606.24570 · v2 · pith:GDYO7NRHnew · submitted 2026-06-23 · 💻 cs.CV

Jolia: Concept-Level Vision-Language Alignment for 3D CT Contrastive Learning

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keywords 3D CTvision-language modelscontrastive learningconcept querieslocalized alignmentmedical foundation modelsradiological reportscross-attention
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The pith

Adding localized concept alignments to contrastive pretraining improves 3D CT vision-language models over global CLIP baselines.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Vision-language contrastive pretraining for 3D medical images typically encodes each scan and report as a single global token, which risks losing details across multiple organs and the structured sections of long radiological reports. The paper augments this global alignment with independent localized alignments, one per concept such as an anatomical region, by splitting reports into concept-specific sections and learning cross-attention queries that pool matching image features. These queries require no segmentation masks or spatial labels. The resulting Jolia model, trained on chest and abdominal CT, outperforms a CLIP baseline on findings classification, report generation, and cross-center transfer while reaching new state-of-the-art results on public benchmarks. A sympathetic reader would care because finer-grained alignments could preserve clinically relevant details that global encodings discard.

Core claim

The paper claims that augmenting CLIP-style global alignment with a set of localized alignments—one per concept—where reports are split into concept-specific sections and cross-attention queries learn to pool matching image features independently for each concept, produces 3D CT foundation models like Jolia that consistently outperform global-only baselines on findings classification, report generation, and cross-center transfer, while incidentally generating attention maps focused on each concept for built-in spatial interpretability.

What carries the argument

ConQuer (Concept Queries): a set of cross-attention queries that perform independent localized alignments between image features and concept-specific sections of the radiological report.

If this is right

  • Jolia outperforms a CLIP baseline on findings classification tasks.
  • The model improves performance on radiological report generation.
  • Cross-center transfer learning results improve over the global baseline.
  • New state-of-the-art results are achieved across multiple public 3D CT benchmarks.
  • Each learned query produces attention maps focused on its corresponding anatomical concept.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same splitting-and-query approach could be tested on other 3D modalities such as MRI without requiring new spatial annotations.
  • Attention maps from the queries might be used directly for clinical verification of model attention on specific organs.
  • Extending the method to finer concepts like lesions or pathologies would require only report sectioning rather than new labels.
  • The pattern of replacing one global alignment with multiple semantic alignments may apply to contrastive learning on other structured multimodal data.

Load-bearing premise

That splitting radiological reports into concept-specific sections and training independent cross-attention queries without any spatial supervision will produce meaningful localized alignments that improve downstream performance.

What would settle it

Training an otherwise identical model without the concept queries and finding no gain or a loss in accuracy on findings classification, report generation metrics, or cross-center transfer would falsify the claimed benefit of the localized alignments.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.24570 by Amaury Prat, Antoine Saporta, Baptiste Callard, Charles Corbi\`ere, Corentin Dancette, Julien Khlaut, Korentin Le Floch, Leo Butsanets, Leo Machado, Pierre Manceron, Th\'eo Danielou, Tom Boeken.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of ConQuer. We decompose both the image (via learnable cross-attention queries) and the report (via concept-specific sections produced by an LLM) into a set of concept-level representations, and apply contrastive alignment independently for each concept in addition to the standard global LCLIP(z[CLS], t). A fundamental limitation of standard CLIP-style alignment, however, is that both the image an… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Evaluation protocol for findings classification (linear probing and zero-shot): we concatenate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Zero-shot evaluation results. (a) Per-template and aggregate zero-shot AUROC on the test set. Each cell reports the macro-AUROC obtained with a single prompt template pair (columns 1–8) or their aggregate (rightmost column), evaluated on CT-RATE (top) and Stanford Abd CT (bottom). (b) Ablation study on the number of prompt templates (r) in long-form zero-shot evaluation. 4.4 Radiology Report Generation We … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Organ-level attention maps. Cross-attention maps for different organ queries show that Jolia models learn to attend to anatomically meaningful regions without explicit supervision. 5 Conclusion We introduced ConQuer (Concept Queries), an image–text contrastive pretraining method that augments global CLIP alignment with localized, concept-level alignments learned from concept￾specific report sections via cr… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Example of the LLM-based report-splitting pipeline. A raw chest CT Findings report (left, paraphrased from a public CT-RATE study) is decomposed into atomic, single-sentence obser￾vations, each tagged with a finding_category (in grey, in brackets) and an organ drawn from our taxonomy. Sentences sharing an anatomical entry are concatenated into one organ section (right) before being embedded by the frozen t… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Aggregation converges to a stable zero-shot estimate. Test macro-AUC against the number of aggregated templates p on CT-RATE (left) and Merlin-Abd-CT (right). Solid lines show the aggregation protocol; dashed and dotted lines show the val-best and val-worst single-template AUCs, with the shaded tube denoting their envelope. Curves stabilise by p ≈ 4–5 on both datasets and no model collapses at p = 1, suppo… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison of report generation on two held-out Merlin-Abd-CT abdomi￾nal CT studies: a mostly-normal study (a) and a complex post-pelvic-exenteration study (b). Green marks findings supported by the radiologist ground truth; red marks hallucinations; plain text is filler / normal phrasing. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Principal Component Analysis Visualization. First three non-trivial PCA components of the high-resolution feature maps of the same volume mapped to RGB channels. Jolia models produce the most spatially structured and anatomically coherent representations across all views. Pancreas Spleen Axial Coronal Sagittal [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Failure cases in organ-level attention. Cross-attention maps for the pancreas and spleen demonstrate lower localization precision compared to other organs. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗
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Vision-language contrastive pretraining has become the dominant recipe for 3D medical foundation models, leveraging the large volumes of paired scans and reports produced in clinical practice. However, medical images usually span dozens of organs, and radiological reports are much longer than typical natural image captions and are composed of multiple structured sections. CLIP-style pretraining compresses this structure by encoding each modality into a single global token, at the risk of losing important details. We introduce ConQuer (Concept Queries), an image-text pretraining method that augments CLIP's global alignment with a set of localized alignments, one per concept. ConQuer splits the report into concept-specific sections and learns cross-attention queries that pool the matching image features without using any segmentation mask or spatial supervision. Contrastive learning is then applied independently for each concept. Concepts can be any unit of semantic localization; here, they are anatomical regions, one query per organ or gross body region. As a byproduct, each query learns attention maps focused on its concept, providing built-in spatial interpretability. We use ConQuer to train Jolia, a 3D CT foundation model on chest and abdominal CT. Jolia consistently outperforms a CLIP baseline on findings classification, report generation, and cross-center transfer, and sets a new state of the art across multiple public benchmarks. Jolia's weights are available at https://huggingface.co/raidium/Jolia

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces Jolia, a 3D CT vision-language foundation model trained with ConQuer (Concept Queries). ConQuer augments standard global CLIP alignment by splitting radiological reports into concept-specific sections (anatomical regions), learning one cross-attention query per concept to pool matching image features, and applying independent per-concept contrastive losses. No segmentation masks or spatial supervision are used. The resulting model is claimed to outperform a CLIP baseline on findings classification, report generation, and cross-center transfer while setting new state-of-the-art results across multiple public benchmarks.

Significance. If the per-concept queries successfully induce localized alignments that drive the reported gains, the approach would address a key limitation of global encodings when handling multi-organ 3D CT scans and structured multi-section reports, while also providing built-in spatial interpretability via attention maps. This could represent a meaningful advance for medical foundation models by enabling more structured contrastive pretraining without additional annotations.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that Jolia 'consistently outperforms a CLIP baseline' and 'sets a new state of the art' is unsupported by any quantitative results, ablation details, or experimental setup. This is load-bearing because the soundness of the outperformance (and thus the value of ConQuer) cannot be evaluated from the given information.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (ConQuer description): the method asserts that independent cross-attention queries will produce meaningful localized alignments for each anatomical concept, yet supplies no mechanism (e.g., orthogonality, attention regularization, reconstruction loss, or spatial term) to prevent collapse to global or shared representations. This directly affects the weakest assumption underlying the claimed gains over CLIP, as performance differences could instead arise from extra parameters or report preprocessing.
minor comments (1)
  1. The Hugging Face weight link is mentioned only in the abstract; ensure it receives a formal citation and is referenced in the main text and reproducibility section.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments on the abstract below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate quantitative support and methodological clarifications.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that Jolia 'consistently outperforms a CLIP baseline' and 'sets a new state of the art' is unsupported by any quantitative results, ablation details, or experimental setup. This is load-bearing because the soundness of the outperformance (and thus the value of ConQuer) cannot be evaluated from the given information.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should provide more concrete support. In the revised manuscript we will add key quantitative results (e.g., AUC gains on multi-label classification, BLEU/ROUGE improvements on report generation, and transfer performance deltas) together with a one-sentence description of the evaluation protocol. This keeps the abstract concise while making the claims evaluable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (ConQuer description): the method asserts that independent cross-attention queries will produce meaningful localized alignments for each anatomical concept, yet supplies no mechanism (e.g., orthogonality, attention regularization, reconstruction loss, or spatial term) to prevent collapse to global or shared representations. This directly affects the weakest assumption underlying the claimed gains over CLIP, as performance differences could instead arise from extra parameters or report preprocessing.

    Authors: The abstract is intentionally high-level. The full paper contains attention-map visualizations and controlled ablations showing that the per-concept queries produce distinct, organ-focused alignments rather than collapsing, even without explicit regularization. We will revise the abstract to note this empirical outcome. We maintain that the gains are not explained by parameter count alone, as our ablations match capacity; however, we accept the need to clarify the assumption in the abstract and will do so. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: method defined independently; gains are empirical, not forced by construction.

full rationale

The paper defines ConQuer by splitting reports into concept sections, introducing per-concept cross-attention queries, and applying independent contrastive losses without spatial labels. These choices are explicit design decisions, not derived from or equivalent to the target performance metrics. Downstream improvements on classification, generation, and transfer are reported as experimental outcomes on public benchmarks, not as quantities that reduce to the training inputs by construction. No self-citation chains, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or ansatzes smuggled via prior work appear in the provided text. The derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks.

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  • ConQuer no independent evidence
    purpose: Augment CLIP with per-concept localized alignments
    New method name and procedure introduced in the work

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