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5 papers

q-bio.QM2026

Foundation Models in Biomedical Imaging: Turning Hype into Reality

Amgad Muneer, Kai Zhang, Ibraheem Hamdi +6

Foundation models (FMs) are driving a prominent shift in biomedical imaging from task-specific models to unified backbone models for diverse tasks. This opens an avenue to integrat…

eess.IV2026

Projection Guided Personalized Federated Learning for Low Dose CT Denoising

Anas Zafar, Muhammad Waqas, Amgad Muneer +2

Low-dose CT (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but introduces protocol-dependent noise and artifacts that vary across institutions. While federated learning enables collaborative tr…

q-bio.QM2025

From Classical Machine Learning to Emerging Foundation Models: Review on Multimodal Data Integration for Cancer Research

Amgad Muneer, Muhammad Waqas, Maliazurina B Saad +16

Cancer research is increasingly driven by the integration of diverse data modalities, spanning from genomics and proteomics to imaging and clinical factors. However, extracting act…

cs.CV2025

MorphGen: Morphology-Guided Representation Learning for Robust Single-Domain Generalization in Histopathological Cancer Classification

Hikmat Khan, Syed Farhan Alam Zaidi, Pir Masoom Shah +4

Domain generalization in computational histopathology is hindered by heterogeneity in whole slide images (WSIs), caused by variations in tissue preparation, staining, and imaging c…

q-bio.QM2025

The Next Layer: Augmenting Foundation Models with Structure-Preserving and Attention-Guided Learning for Local Patches to Global Context Awareness in Computational Pathology

Muhammad Waqas, Rukhmini Bandyopadhyay, Eman Showkatian +12

Foundation models have recently emerged as powerful feature extractors in computational pathology, yet they typically omit mechanisms for leveraging the global spatial structure of…