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most citedLanguage Models are Few-shot Learners for Prognostic Prediction

9 citations · 12 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2026

The Patient is not a Moving Document: A World Model Training Paradigm for Longitudinal EHR

Irsyad Adam, Zekai Chen, David Laprade +5

Large language models (LLMs) trained with next-word-prediction have achieved success as clinical foundation models. Representations from these language backbones yield strong linea…

cs.AI2025

Building the EHR Foundation Model via Next Event Prediction

Zekai Chen, Arda Pekis, Kevin Brown

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich temporal dynamics that conventional encoding approaches fail to adequately capture. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise fo…

q-bio.GN2025

GenVarFormer: Predicting gene expression from long-range mutations in cancer

David Laub, Ethan Armand, Arda Pekis +6

Distinguishing the rare "driver" mutations that fuel cancer progression from the vast background of "passenger" mutations in the non-coding genome is a fundamental challenge in can…

q-bio.QM2025

Patient-specific Biomolecular Instruction Tuning

Irsyad Adam, Zekai Chen, David Laub +3

Proteomics data is essential to pathogenic understanding of a disease phenotype. In cancer, analysis of molecular signatures enables precision medicine through the identification o…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Advancing High Resolution Vision-Language Models in Biomedicine

Zekai Chen, Arda Pekis, Kevin Brown

Multi-modal learning has significantly advanced generative AI, especially in vision-language modeling. Innovations like GPT-4V and open-source projects such as LLaVA have enabled r…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

Language Models are Few-shot Learners for Prognostic Prediction

Zekai Chen, Mariann Micsinai Balan, Kevin Brown

Clinical prediction is an essential task in the healthcare industry. However, the recent success of transformers, on which large language models are built, has not been extended to…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Masked Image Modeling Advances 3D Medical Image Analysis

Zekai Chen, Devansh Agarwal, Kshitij Aggarwal +5

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM) has gained considerable attention due to its capacity to learn from vast amounts of unlabeled data and has been demonstrated to be effective o…