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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Pretext Matters: An Empirical Study of SSL Methods in Medical Imaging

Vedrana Ivezić, Mara Pleasure, Ashwath Radhachandran +7

Though self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated incredible ability to learn robust representations from unlabeled data, the choice of optimal SSL strategy can lead to vastly…

cs.CV2026

US-JEPA: A Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Medical Ultrasound

Ashwath Radhachandran, Vedrana Ivezić, Shreeram Athreya +3

Ultrasound (US) imaging poses unique challenges for representation learning due to its inherently noisy acquisition process. The low signal-to-noise ratio and stochastic speckle pa…

q-bio.QM2026

Computational Mapping of Reactive Stroma in Prostate Cancer Yields Interpretable, Prognostic Biomarkers

Mara Pleasure, Ekaterina Redekop, Dhakshina Ilango +9

Current histopathological grading of prostate cancer relies primarily on glandular architecture, largely overlooking the tumor microenvironment. Here, we present PROTAS, a deep lea…

cs.CV2025

SPADE: Spatial Transcriptomics and Pathology Alignment Using a Mixture of Data Experts for an Expressive Latent Space

Ekaterina Redekop, Mara Pleasure, Zichen Wang +4

The rapid growth of digital pathology and advances in self-supervised deep learning have enabled the development of foundational models for various pathology tasks across diverse d…

cs.LG2025

Zero-shot Medical Event Prediction Using a Generative Pre-trained Transformer on Electronic Health Records

Ekaterina Redekop, Zichen Wang, Rushikesh Kulkarni +7

Longitudinal data in electronic health records (EHRs) represent an individual`s clinical history through a sequence of codified concepts, including diagnoses, procedures, medicatio…