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Foundation model, which is pre-trained on broad data and is able to adapt to a wide range of tasks, is advancing healthcare. It promotes the development of healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) models, breaking the contradiction between…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yuting He , Fuxiang Huang , Xinrui Jiang , Yuxiang Nie , Minghao Wang , Jiguang Wang , Hao Chen

Foundation models (FMs) trained on electronic health records (EHRs) have shown strong performance on a range of clinical prediction tasks. However, adapting these models to local health systems remains challenging due to limited data…

Foundation models hold promise for transforming AI in healthcare by providing modular components that are easily adaptable to downstream healthcare tasks, making AI development more scalable and cost-effective. Structured EHR foundation…

We propose a new class of waveform foundation models that departs from conventional sequence based representations by modeling physiological time series as realizations of latent event processes. Rather than treating signals as collections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Li Na , Yuanyun Zhang , Shi Li

Traditional foundation models are pre-trained on broad datasets to reduce the training resources (e.g., time, energy, labeled samples) needed for fine-tuning a wide range of downstream tasks. However, traditional foundation models struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Majid Farhadloo , Arun Sharma , Mingzhou Yang , Bharat Jayaprakash , William Northrop , Shashi Shekhar

Wireless foundation models (WFMs) have recently demonstrated promising capabilities, jointly performing multiple wireless functions and adapting effectively to new environments. However, while current WFMs process only one modality,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Ahmed Aboulfotouh , Hatem Abou-Zeid

Foundation models (FMs) promise to generalize medical imaging, but their effectiveness varies. It remains unclear how pre-training domain (medical vs. general), paradigm (e.g., text-guided), and architecture influence embedding quality,…

Vision foundation models (FMs) have become the predominant architecture in computer vision, providing highly transferable representations learned from large-scale, multimodal corpora. Nonetheless, they exhibit persistent limitations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Fatemeh Ziaeetabar

Tracking biosignals is crucial for monitoring wellness and preempting the development of severe medical conditions. Today, wearable devices can conveniently record various biosignals, creating the opportunity to monitor health status…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Salar Abbaspourazad , Oussama Elachqar , Andrew C. Miller , Saba Emrani , Udhyakumar Nallasamy , Ian Shapiro

Foundation models, large-scale, pre-trained deep-learning models adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks have gained significant interest lately in various deep-learning problems undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Bobby Azad , Reza Azad , Sania Eskandari , Afshin Bozorgpour , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Islem Rekik , Dorit Merhof

Foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated strong transferability across medical imaging tasks, yet their clinical utility depends critically on how pretrained representations are adapted to domain-specific data, supervision regimes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Karma Phuntsho , Abdullah , Kyungmi Lee , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

Cardiac biosignals, such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and photoplethysmograms (PPG), are of paramount importance for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of cardiovascular diseases, and have been extensively used in a variety of…

This paper introduces WavesFM, a novel Wireless Foundation Model (WFM) framework, capable of supporting a wide array of communication, sensing, and localization tasks. Our proposed architecture combines a shared Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Ahmed Aboulfotouh , Elsayed Mohammed , Hatem Abou-Zeid

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is widely used in healthcare applications, such as arrhythmia detection and sleep monitoring, making accurate ECG analysis critically essential. Traditional deep learning models for ECG are task-specific, with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yu Han , Vittorio Murino , Xiaofeng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Cheng Ding

Foundation models have recently gained significant attention because of their generalizability and adaptability across multiple tasks and data distributions. Although medical foundation models have emerged, solutions for cardiac imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Sekeun Kim , Pengfei Jin , Sifan Song , Cheng Chen , Yiwei Li , Hui Ren , Xiang Li , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li

Health foundation models (FMs) learn useful representations from wearable sensors, but interpreting what they encode and transferring that knowledge across modalities after training remains difficult. We present a post-training framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Gajendra Katuwal , Advait Koparkar , Salar Abbaspourazad , Anshuman Mishra , Sarvesh Kirthivasan

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 integrate imaging, pathology, clinical records, and genomics data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 Amgad Muneer , Kai Zhang , Ibraheem Hamdi , Rizwan Qureshi , Muhammad Waqas , Shereen Fouad , Hazrat Ali , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Jia Wu

As an effective approach to understanding the human-centric physical world, Wearable Artificial Intelligence (AI), which leverages multimodal wearable sensors to understand human physiology and behavior, has attracted increasing attention…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Yize Cai , Baoshen Guo , Guobin Shen , Zhiqing Hong

While reinforcement learning from scratch has shown impressive results in solving sequential decision-making tasks with efficient simulators, real-world applications with expensive interactions require more sample-efficient agents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Remo Sasso , Michelangelo Conserva , Dominik Jeurissen , Paulo Rauber

Humans understand the world through the integration of multiple sensory modalities, enabling them to perceive, reason about, and imagine dynamic physical processes. Inspired by this capability, multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xuehai He