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DNA sequences encode critical genetic information, yet their variable length and discrete nature impede direct utilization in deep learning models. Existing DNA representation schemes convert sequences into numerical vectors but fail to…

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Vision-language foundation models have shown great promise in computational pathology but remain primarily data-driven, lacking explicit integration of medical knowledge. We introduce KEEP (KnowledgE-Enhanced Pathology), a foundation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Xiao Zhou , Luoyi Sun , Dexuan He , Wenbin Guan , Ge Wang , Ruifen Wang , Lifeng Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Sun , Ya Zhang , Kun Sun , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

We present two deep generative models based on Variational Autoencoders to improve the accuracy of drug response prediction. Our models, Perturbation Variational Autoencoder and its semi-supervised extension, Drug Response Variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-07 Ladislav Rampasek , Daniel Hidru , Petr Smirnov , Benjamin Haibe-Kains , Anna Goldenberg

Protein Language Models (PLMs) have emerged as performant and scalable tools for predicting the functional impact and clinical significance of protein-coding variants, but they still lag experimental accuracy. Here, we present a novel…

Here we present a versatile foundation model that can perform a range of clinically-relevant image analysis tasks, including segmentation, landmark localisation, diagnosis, and prognostication. A multi-view convolution-transformer masked…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yunguan Fu , Wenjia Bai , Weixi Yi , Charlotte Manisty , Anish N Bhuva , Thomas A Treibel , James C Moon , Matthew J Clarkson , Rhodri Huw Davies , Yipeng Hu

Designing an end-to-end deep learning network to match the biometric features with limited training samples is an extremely challenging task. To address this problem, we propose a new way to design an end-to-end deep CNN framework i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Daksh Thapar , Gaurav Jaswal , Aditya Nigam , Vivek Kanhangad

Medical vision foundation models remain limited in downstream tasks, particularly volumetric medical image segmentation. While fine-tuning on labeled target-domain data improves performance, existing approaches typically rely on randomly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jin Yang , Daniel S. Marcus , Aristeidis Sotiras

Negation is a fundamental linguistic operation in clinical reporting, yet vision-language models (VLMs) frequently fail to distinguish affirmative from negated medical statements. To systematically characterize this limitation, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ali Abbasi , Mehdi Taghipour , Rahmatollah Beheshti

Although DNA foundation models have advanced the understanding of genomes, they still face significant challenges in the limited scale and diversity of genomic data. This limitation starkly contrasts with the success of natural language…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-14 Huixin Zhan , Ying Nian Wu , Zijun Zhang

Deep learning algorithms have become the golden standard for segmentation of medical imaging data. In most works, the variability and heterogeneity of real clinical data is acknowledged to still be a problem. One way to automatically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Gerry Lowe , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

Recent advances in applying deep learning in genomics include DNA-language and single-cell foundation models. However, these models take only one data type as input. We introduce dynamic token adaptation and demonstrate how it combines…

Deep learning has shown remarkable performance in medical image segmentation. However, despite its promise, deep learning has many challenges in practice due to its inability to effectively transition to unseen domains, caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Dewei Hu , Hao Li , Han Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Xing Yao , Daiwei Lu , Ipek Oguz

Self-supervised learning in healthcare has largely relied on invariance-based objectives, which maximize similarity between different views of the same patient. While effective for static anatomy, this paradigm is fundamentally misaligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jose Geraldo Fernandes , Luiz Facury , Pedro Robles Dutenhefner , Wagner Meira

A primary goal of computational phenotype research is to conduct medical diagnosis. In hospital, physicians rely on massive clinical data to make diagnosis decisions, among which laboratory tests are one of the most important resources.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Shiyue Zhang , Pengtao Xie , Dong Wang , Eric P. Xing

Modeling disease progression through multiple stages is critical for clinical decision-making for chronic diseases, e.g., cancer, diabetes, chronic kidney diseases, and so on. Existing approaches often model the disease progression as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoyu Yang , Sanjoy Dey , Pablo Meyer

In many classification problems, we want a classifier that is robust to a range of non-semantic transformations. For example, a human can identify a dog in a picture regardless of the orientation and pose in which it appears. There is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Scott Mahan , Tim Doster , Henry Kvinge

This paper presents a method for building patient-based networks that we call Precision disease networks, and its uses for predicting medical outcomes. Our methodology consists of building networks, one for each patient or case, that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-01 J. Cabrera , D. Amaratunga , W. Kostis , J Kostis

Identifying genes associated with complex human diseases is one of the main challenges of human genetics and computational medicine. To answer this question, millions of genetic variants get screened to identify a few of importance. To…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-01 Aziz M. Mezlini , Fabio Fuligni , Adam Shlien , Anna Goldenberg

Recent advancements in multimodal foundation models have showcased impressive capabilities in understanding and reasoning with visual and textual information. Adapting these foundation models trained for general usage to specialized domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hejie Cui , Lingjun Mao , Xin Liang , Jieyu Zhang , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Carl Yang

As natural image understanding moves towards the pretrain-finetune era, research in pathology imaging is concurrently evolving. Despite the predominant focus on pretraining pathological foundation models, how to adapt foundation models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiaxuan Lu , Fang Yan , Xiaofan Zhang , Yue Gao , Shaoting Zhang