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GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Efficient Pathology Foundation Models for Whole-Slide and Tumor Microenvironment Analysis
Naoto Usuyama, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Sicong Yao +27
Foundation models have emerged as a driving force in computational pathology, with the potential to transform cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment selection by learning trans…
HealthAgentBench: A Unified Benchmark Suite of Realistic Agentic Healthcare Environments for Challenging Frontier AI Agents
Qianchu Liu, Sheng Zhang, Guanghui Qin +16
As AI agents become increasingly capable of complex, long-horizon reasoning, rigorous and holistic evaluation is essential for measuring progress toward real-world healthcare appli…
The Illusion of Readiness in Health AI
Yu Gu, Jingjing Fu, Xiaodong Liu +29
Large language models have demonstrated remarkable performance in a wide range of medical benchmarks. Yet underneath the seemingly promising results lie salient growth areas, espec…
CancerGUIDE: Cancer Guideline Understanding via Internal Disagreement Estimation
Alyssa Unell, Noel C. F. Codella, Sam Preston +13
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) provides evidence-based guidelines for cancer treatment. Translating complex patient presentations into guideline-compliant treatme…
Generative Medical Event Models Improve with Scale
Shane Waxler, Paul Blazek, Davis White +16
Realizing personalized medicine at scale calls for methods that distill insights from longitudinal patient journeys, which can be viewed as a sequence of medical events. Foundation…
Exploring Scaling Laws for EHR Foundation Models
Sheng Zhang, Qin Liu, Naoto Usuyama +3
The emergence of scaling laws has profoundly shaped the development of large language models (LLMs), enabling predictable performance gains through systematic increases in model si…
Universal Abstraction: Harnessing Frontier Models to Structure Real-World Data at Scale
Cliff Wong, Sam Preston, Qianchu Liu +22
A significant fraction of real-world patient information resides in unstructured clinical text. Medical abstraction extracts and normalizes key structured attributes from free-text…
Towards a clinically accessible radiology foundation model: open-access and lightweight, with automated evaluation
Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, Shih-Cheng Huang, Yanbo Xu +24
The scaling laws and extraordinary performance of large foundation models motivate the development and utilization of such models in biomedicine. However, despite early promising r…
Foundation Models for Biomedical Image Segmentation: A Survey
Ho Hin Lee, Yu Gu, Theodore Zhao +9
Recent advancements in biomedical image analysis have been significantly driven by the Segment Anything Model (SAM). This transformative technology, originally developed for genera…
DocLens: Multi-aspect Fine-grained Evaluation for Medical Text Generation
Yiqing Xie, Sheng Zhang, Hao Cheng +6
Medical text generation aims to assist with administrative work and highlight salient information to support decision-making. To reflect the specific requirements of medical text,…
TRIALSCOPE: A Unifying Causal Framework for Scaling Real-World Evidence Generation with Biomedical Language Models
Javier González, Risa Ueno, Cliff Wong +12
The rapid digitization of real-world data presents an unprecedented opportunity to optimize healthcare delivery and accelerate biomedical discovery. However, these data are often f…
Scaling Clinical Trial Matching Using Large Language Models: A Case Study in Oncology
Cliff Wong, Sheng Zhang, Yu Gu +8
Clinical trial matching is a key process in health delivery and discovery. In practice, it is plagued by overwhelming unstructured data and unscalable manual processing. In this pa…
Distilling Large Language Models for Biomedical Knowledge Extraction: A Case Study on Adverse Drug Events
Yu Gu, Sheng Zhang, Naoto Usuyama +8
Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, including health applications. In this paper, we study how LLMs…
LLaVA-Med: Training a Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Biomedicine in One Day
Chunyuan Li, Cliff Wong, Sheng Zhang +6
Conversational generative AI has demonstrated remarkable promise for empowering biomedical practitioners, but current investigations focus on unimodal text. Multimodal conversation…
BiomedCLIP: a multimodal biomedical foundation model pretrained from fifteen million scientific image-text pairs
Sheng Zhang, Yanbo Xu, Naoto Usuyama +21
Biomedical data is inherently multimodal, comprising physical measurements and natural language narratives. A generalist biomedical AI model needs to simultaneously process differe…
Knowledge-Rich Self-Supervision for Biomedical Entity Linking
Sheng Zhang, Hao Cheng, Shikhar Vashishth +6
Entity linking faces significant challenges such as prolific variations and prevalent ambiguities, especially in high-value domains with myriad entities. Standard classification ap…
Modular Self-Supervision for Document-Level Relation Extraction
Sheng Zhang, Cliff Wong, Naoto Usuyama +3
Extracting relations across large text spans has been relatively underexplored in NLP, but it is particularly important for high-value domains such as biomedicine, where obtaining…
Domain-Specific Pretraining for Vertical Search: Case Study on Biomedical Literature
Yu Wang, Jinchao Li, Tristan Naumann +12
Information overload is a prevalent challenge in many high-value domains. A prominent case in point is the explosion of the biomedical literature on COVID-19, which swelled to hund…
Document-Level -ary Relation Extraction with Multiscale Representation Learning
Robin Jia, Cliff Wong, Hoifung Poon
Most information extraction methods focus on binary relations expressed within single sentences. In high-value domains, however, -ary relations are of great demand (e.g., drug-g…