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MED-VRAG: Iterative Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Question Answering
A new arXiv paper introduces MED-VRAG, a retrieval-augmented generation approach for medical question answering that works with full document pages rather than only extracted text chunks. Existing medical RAG pipelines typically discard tables, figures, and page layout, so the proposed method retains that visual information and applies retrieval iteratively. The authors argue this multimodal, multi-step design better serves medical QA tasks.