VerbaNexAI at ClinicalSkillQA: From Visual Evidence to Procedural Order A Two-Stage Generative Vision-Language Framework for ClinSkillQA

2026-06-25 · Source: Paper Index on ACL Anthology · Field: Technology & Digital — Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Health & Medical Research · Depth: Expert, quick

Summary

VerbaNexAI is a two-stage generative vision-language framework designed for the temporal ordering of clinical frames within the Basic Life Support (BLS) subset of ClinSkillQA. The system utilizes Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct in a zero-shot configuration. Stage 1 independently processes each image to extract factual visual evidence, which is then converted into a structured representation using deterministic rules. In Stage 2, the ordering task is framed as an ordinal scoring problem over procedural stages, with ties resolved by applying PCA to multimodal embeddings. Evaluated against the official benchmark protocol using Task Accuracy, Pairwise Accuracy, and BERTScore, VerbaNexAI achieved a Task Accuracy of 0.17, Pairwise Micro Accuracy of 0.60, and BERT F1 of 0.71 in the test phase, demonstrating complete coverage for both predictions and rationales. The framework provides an interpretable and reproducible foundation, despite facing challenges in fine-grained temporal discrimination.

Key takeaway

For AI Scientists developing clinical procedural guidance systems, VerbaNexAI offers a reproducible two-stage vision-language approach. You should consider its method of extracting structured visual evidence and applying ordinal scoring for temporal ordering. While achieving 0.60 Pairwise Micro Accuracy, recognize the current limitations in fine-grained temporal discrimination. This framework provides a solid foundation for building interpretable systems, but further refinement is needed for high-precision sequencing.

Key insights

VerbaNexAI uses a two-stage vision-language framework for temporal ordering of clinical frames, achieving interpretability despite fine-grained challenges.

Principles

• Decompose complex tasks into stages.
• Use structured representations for visual evidence.
• Ordinal scoring can order procedural steps.

Method

A two-stage pipeline: Stage 1 extracts factual visual evidence from images and converts it to structured data. Stage 2 formulates ordering as ordinal scoring, using PCA on multimodal embeddings for tie-breaking.

In practice

• Apply Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct zero-shot.
• Structure visual evidence with deterministic rules.
• Evaluate ordering with Task/Pairwise Accuracy, BERTScore.

Topics

• Vision-Language Models
• Clinical Skill Assessment
• Temporal Ordering
• Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct
• Basic Life Support
• Multimodal Embeddings

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