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Attention Without Grounding: Causal Evaluation of Visual Explanations in Medical VLMs
arXiv:2607.18577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention and saliency heatmaps are widely used to explain medical Vision-Language Model (VLM) outputs on chest X-rays, yet whether they truly highlight the image evidence driving predictions has not been causally tested. We audit faithfulness via overlap with radiologist