Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsMedFusion: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Visual Question Answering and Explainable Medical RecommendationSatyajit Mahapatra, Jibitesh Mishra, Kumar Janardan Patra et al.In clinical decision-making, the ability to ask visual questions about medical images and receive accurate, personalized, and interpretable recommendations can significantly enhance practitioner support systems. This paper presents MedFusion, a unified multimodal framework that integrates Visual Question Answering (VQA), personalized medical recommendation, and explainability within a single architecture. The proposed model employs co-attention–based visual–textual fusion augmented with retrieval-enhanced reasoning to … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 22, Issue 5 · 20 May 2026 · 1,360 accessesView PDFCite