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most citedNurViD: A Large Expert-Level Video Database for Nursing Procedure Activity Understanding

4 citations · 9 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2026

The Missing Coefficients: Bayesian Pairwise Merging for Model Personalization

Yaling Shen, Tongtong Wu, Siyuan Yan +1

How can we personalize a shared expert library from a user's pairwise choices? Prior work can realize different reward trade-offs by merging reward-specialized experts, given a vec…

cs.CV2026

Latent Ordinal Evidence, Misaligned Outputs: Inference-Time Ordinal Lens Alignment for Multimodal LLMs

Haiming Li, Yingsheng Liu, Jingmin Zhu +5

Multimodal LLMs apply the language model interface to visual inputs, where ordinal regression tasks such as age estimation, image quality assessment, and disease grading require au…

cs.CV2026

NeRD: Neuro-Symbolic Rule Distillation for Efficient Ontology-Grounded Chain-of-Thought in Medical Image Diagnosis

Hongxi Yang, Yiwen Jiang, Siyuan Yan +8

Interpretability is essential for trustworthy medical image diagnosis. However, existing concept-driven interpretable methods have key limitations: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs)…

cs.CV2026

DermAgent: A Self-Reflective Agentic System for Dermatological Image Analysis with Multi-Tool Reasoning and Traceable Decision-Making

Yize Liu, Siyuan Yan, Ming Hu +5

Dermatological diagnosis requires integrating fine-grained visual perception with expert clinical knowledge. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) facilitate interactiv…

cs.CV2026

A Vision-Language Foundation Model for Zero-shot Clinical Collaboration and Automated Concept Discovery in Dermatology

Siyuan Yan, Xieji Li, Dan Mo +28

Medical foundation models have shown promise in controlled benchmarks, yet widespread deployment remains hindered by reliance on task-specific fine-tuning. Here, we introduce DermF…

cs.CL2026

DermoGPT: Open Weights and Open Data for Morphology-Grounded Dermatological Reasoning MLLMs

Jinghan Ru, Siyuan Yan, Yuguo Yin +2

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promise for medical applications, yet progress in dermatology lags due to limited training data, narrow task coverage, and lack of cli…

cs.CV2025

Multi-Aspect Knowledge-Enhanced Medical Vision-Language Pretraining with Multi-Agent Data Generation

Xieji Li, Siyuan Yan, Yingsheng Liu +4

Vision-language pretraining (VLP) has emerged as a powerful paradigm in medical image analysis, enabling representation learning from large-scale image-text pairs without relying o…

cs.CV2025

Trustworthy and Fair SkinGPT-R1 for Democratizing Dermatological Reasoning across Diverse Ethnicities

Yuhao Shen, Zhangtianyi Chen, Yuanhao He +14

The clinical translation of dermatological AI is hindered by opaque reasoning and systematic performance disparities across skin tones. Here we present SkinGPT-R1, a multimodal lar…

cs.CV2025

ReactDiff: Fundamental Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Diffusion Model

Luo Cheng, Song Siyang, Yan Siyuan +2

The automatic generation of diverse and human-like facial reactions in dyadic dialogue remains a critical challenge for human-computer interaction systems. Existing methods fail to…

cs.CV2025

WISE: Weak-Supervision-Guided Step-by-Step Explanations for Multimodal LLMs in Image Classification

Yiwen Jiang, Deval Mehta, Siyuan Yan +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in visual-textual reasoning, with Multimodal Chain-of-Thought (MCoT) prompting significantly enhancing interpretability.…

cs.CV2025

Controllable Skin Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Vector Autoregression Model

Jiajun Sun, Zhen Yu, Siyuan Yan +3

Skin images from real-world clinical practice are often limited, resulting in a shortage of training data for deep-learning models. While many studies have explored skin image synt…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

A Survey of Scientific Large Language Models: From Data Foundations to Agent Frontiers

Ming Hu, Chenglong Ma, Wei Li +117

Scientific Large Language Models (Sci-LLMs) are transforming how knowledge is represented, integrated, and applied in scientific research, yet their progress is shaped by the compl…

cs.CV2025

MAKE: Multi-Aspect Knowledge-Enhanced Vision-Language Pretraining for Zero-shot Dermatological Assessment

Siyuan Yan, Xieji Li, Ming Hu +3

Dermatological diagnosis represents a complex multimodal challenge that requires integrating visual features with specialized clinical knowledge. While vision-language pretraining…

cs.CV2025

Derm1M: A Million-scale Vision-Language Dataset Aligned with Clinical Ontology Knowledge for Dermatology

Siyuan Yan, Ming Hu, Yiwen Jiang +5

The emergence of vision-language models has transformed medical AI, enabling unprecedented advances in diagnostic capability and clinical applications. However, progress in dermato…

cs.CV2024

OphCLIP: Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Learning for Ophthalmic Surgical Video-Language Pretraining

Ming Hu, Kun Yuan, Yaling Shen +17

Surgical practice involves complex visual interpretation, procedural skills, and advanced medical knowledge, making surgical vision-language pretraining (VLP) particularly challeng…

eess.IV2024

MONICA: Benchmarking on Long-tailed Medical Image Classification

Lie Ju, Siyuan Yan, Yukun Zhou +4

Long-tailed learning is considered to be an extremely challenging problem in data imbalance learning. It aims to train well-generalized models from a large number of images that fo…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

A Multimodal Vision Foundation Model for Clinical Dermatology

Siyuan Yan, Zhen Yu, Clare Primiero +22

Diagnosing and treating skin diseases require advanced visual skills across domains and the ability to synthesize information from multiple imaging modalities. While current deep l…

cs.CV2024

OphNet: A Large-Scale Video Benchmark for Ophthalmic Surgical Workflow Understanding

Ming Hu, Peng Xia, Lin Wang +11

Surgical scene perception via videos is critical for advancing robotic surgery, telesurgery, and AI-assisted surgery, particularly in ophthalmology. However, the scarcity of divers…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Diffusion Model Driven Test-Time Image Adaptation for Robust Skin Lesion Classification

Ming Hu, Siyuan Yan, Peng Xia +5

Deep learning-based diagnostic systems have demonstrated potential in skin disease diagnosis. However, their performance can easily degrade on test domains due to distribution shif…

cs.CV2024

Enhancing Vision-Language Models Generalization via Diversity-Driven Novel Feature Synthesis

Siyuan Yan, Cheng Luo, Zhen Yu +1

Vision-language foundation models like CLIP have shown impressive zero-shot generalization, but finetuning on downstream datasets can cause overfitting and loss of its generalizati…

eess.IV2024★ 2 cited

Prompt-driven Latent Domain Generalization for Medical Image Classification

Siyuan Yan, Chi Liu, Zhen Yu +7

Deep learning models for medical image analysis easily suffer from distribution shifts caused by dataset artifacts bias, camera variations, differences in the imaging station, etc.…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

NurViD: A Large Expert-Level Video Database for Nursing Procedure Activity Understanding

Ming Hu, Lin Wang, Siyuan Yan +7

The application of deep learning to nursing procedure activity understanding has the potential to greatly enhance the quality and safety of nurse-patient interactions. By utilizing…