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most citedVisionFM: a Multi-Modal Multi-Task Vision Foundation Model for Generalist Ophthalmic Artificial Intelligence

72 citations · 108 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

q-bio.QM2026

Prediction bias in biological ageing markers

Yiqun Lin, Ariel Yuhan Ong, Matthew Yu Heng Wong +52

Biological ageing markers have attracted growing interest, with models estimating age from organ imaging or blood biomarkers. An estimated age above chronological age or the age-sp…

cs.AI2026

A specialized reasoning large language model for accelerating rare disease diagnosis: a randomized AI physician assistance trial

Haichao Chen, Songchi Zhou, Zhengyun Zhao +28

Rare diseases affect millions of individuals worldwide, yet timely diagnosis remains a major public health challenge due to scarcity of specialized clinical expertise. While large…

cs.AI2026

Resolving the bias-precision paradox with stochastic causal representation learning for personalized medicine

Peisong Zhang, Manqiang Peng, Yuxuan Wu +21

Estimating individualized treatment effects from longitudinal observational data is central to data-driven medicine, yet existing methods face a fundamental limitation: reducing co…

cs.CV2026

VOLMO: Versatile and Open Large Models for Ophthalmology

Zhenyue Qin, Younjoon Chung, Elijah Lee +16

Vision impairment affects millions globally, and early detection is critical to preventing irreversible vision loss. Ophthalmology workflows require clinicians to integrate medical…

cs.CY2026

Deliberative multi-agent large language models improve clinical reasoning in ophthalmology

Ehsan Misaghi, Sean T Berkowitz, Bing Yu Chen +10

Large language models (LLMs) show potential for ophthalmic clinical reasoning, yet individual models risk introducing harm. We evaluated whether multi-agent LLM deliberative counci…

cs.CV2026

EyeWorld: A Generative World Model of Ocular State and Dynamics

Ziyu Gao, Xinyuan Wu, Xiaolan Chen +10

Ophthalmic decision-making depends on subtle lesion-scale cues interpreted across multimodal imaging and over time, yet most medical foundation models remain static and degrade und…

cs.CL2026

Toward Federated Large Language Models in Medicine: A Parameter-Efficient Framework for Privacy-Preserving, Multi-Institutional Adaptation

Anran Li, Yuanyuan Chen, Wenjun Long +16

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adapted for medical applications, but most are trained using data from a single institution because privacy and governance constraints…

cs.HC2025

EyeAgent: An Agentic AI System for Multimodal Clinical Decision Support in Ophthalmology

Danli Shi, Xiaolan Chen, Bingjie Yan +24

Artificial intelligence has shown promise in medical imaging, yet most existing systems lack flexibility, interpretability, and adaptability - challenges especially pronounced in o…

cs.CV2025

EVLF-FM: Explainable Vision Language Foundation Model for Medicine

Yang Bai, Haoran Cheng, Yang Zhou +40

Despite the promise of foundation models in medical AI, current systems remain limited - they are modality-specific and lack transparent reasoning processes, hindering clinical ado…

eess.IV2025★ 2 cited

Generalist versus Specialist Vision Foundation Models for Ocular Disease and Oculomics

Yukun Zhou, Paul Nderitu, Jocelyn Hui Lin Goh +20

Medical foundation models, pre-trained with large-scale clinical data, demonstrate strong performance in diverse clinically relevant applications. RETFound, trained on nearly one m…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

LMOD+: A Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in Ophthalmology

Zhenyue Qin, Yang Liu, Yu Yin +13

Vision-threatening eye diseases pose a major global health burden, with timely diagnosis limited by workforce shortages and restricted access to specialized care. While multimodal…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Memorization in Large Language Models in Medicine: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Implications

Anran Li, Lingfei Qian, Mengmeng Du +18

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in medicine, with many studies adapting them through continued pre-training or fine-tuning on medical data to e…

cs.CV2025

FusionFM: Fusing Eye-specific Foundational Models for Optimized Ophthalmic Diagnosis

Ke Zou, Jocelyn Hui Lin Goh, Yukun Zhou +11

Foundation models (FMs) have shown great promise in medical image analysis by improving generalization across diverse downstream tasks. In ophthalmology, several FMs have recently…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Performance of GPT-5 Frontier Models in Ophthalmology Question Answering

Fares Antaki, David Mikhail, Daniel Milad +11

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-5 integrate advanced reasoning capabilities that may improve performance on complex medical question-answering tasks. For this latest gener…

cs.CV2025

Human-like Content Analysis for Generative AI with Language-Grounded Sparse Encoders

Yiming Tang, Arash Lagzian, Srinivas Anumasa +9

The rapid development of generative AI has transformed content creation, communication, and human development. However, this technology raises profound concerns in high-stakes doma…

cs.CL2025★ 5 cited

EH-Benchmark Ophthalmic Hallucination Benchmark and Agent-Driven Top-Down Traceable Reasoning Workflow

Xiaoyu Pan, Yang Bai, Ke Zou +5

Medical Large Language Models (MLLMs) play a crucial role in ophthalmic diagnosis, holding significant potential to address vision-threatening diseases. However, their accuracy is…

eess.IV2025

An integrated language-vision foundation model for conversational diagnostics and triaging in primary eye care

Zhi Da Soh, Yang Bai, Kai Yu +28

Current deep learning models are mostly task specific and lack a user-friendly interface to operate. We present Meta-EyeFM, a multi-function foundation model that integrates a larg…

cs.CL2025

Benchmarking Next-Generation Reasoning-Focused Large Language Models in Ophthalmology: A Head-to-Head Evaluation on 5,888 Items

Minjie Zou, Sahana Srinivasan, Thaddaeus Wai Soon Lo +13

Recent advances in reasoning-focused large language models (LLMs) mark a shift from general LLMs toward models designed for complex decision-making, a crucial aspect in medicine. H…

cs.CV2025

Clinician-Friendly Foundation Models for Ophthalmic Image Diagnostics without Fine-Tuning or Technical Barriers

Meng Wang, Tian Lin, Qingshan Hou +69

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows remarkable potential in medical imaging diagnostics, yet most current models require retraining when applied across different clinical settings,…

eess.IV2025

Is an Ultra Large Natural Image-Based Foundation Model Superior to a Retina-Specific Model for Detecting Ocular and Systemic Diseases?

Qingshan Hou, Yukun Zhou, Jocelyn Hui Lin Goh +19

The advent of foundation models (FMs) is transforming medical domain. In ophthalmology, RETFound, a retina-specific FM pre-trained sequentially on 1.4 million natural images and 1.…

cs.CV2025

Are Traditional Deep Learning Model Approaches as Effective as a Retinal-Specific Foundation Model for Ocular and Systemic Disease Detection?

Samantha Min Er Yew, Xiaofeng Lei, Jocelyn Hui Lin Goh +26

Background: RETFound, a self-supervised, retina-specific foundation model (FM), showed potential in downstream applications. However, its comparative performance with traditional d…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Can OpenAI o1 Reason Well in Ophthalmology? A 6,990-Question Head-to-Head Evaluation Study

Sahana Srinivasan, Xuguang Ai, Minjie Zou +14

Question: What is the performance and reasoning ability of OpenAI o1 compared to other large language models in addressing ophthalmology-specific questions? Findings: This study ev…

eess.IV2024

Enhancing Community Vision Screening -- AI Driven Retinal Photography for Early Disease Detection and Patient Trust

Xiaofeng Lei, Yih-Chung Tham, Jocelyn Hui Lin Goh +7

Community vision screening plays a crucial role in identifying individuals with vision loss and preventing avoidable blindness, particularly in rural communities where access to ey…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

LEME: Open Large Language Models for Ophthalmology with Advanced Reasoning and Clinical Validation

Hyunjae Kim, Xuguang Ai, Sahana Srinivasan +27

The rising prevalence of eye diseases poses a growing public health burden. Large language models (LLMs) offer a promising path to reduce documentation workload and support clinica…