TR2024-175

GPT Sonograpy: Hand Gesture Decoding from Forearm Ultrasound Images via VLM


Abstract:

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer
4-omni (GPT-4o), are emerging multi-modal foundation models which have great potential as powerful artificial-intelligence (AI) assistance tools for a myriad of applications, including healthcare, industrial, and academic sectors. Although such foundation models perform well in a wide range of general tasks, their ca- pability without fine-tuning is often limited in specialized tasks. However, full fine-tuning of large foundation models is challenging due to enormous computa- tion/memory/dataset requirements. We show that GPT-4o can decode hand gestures from forearm ultrasound data even with no fine-tuning, and improves with few-shot, retrieval-augmented in-context learning.