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Medical, health, and genomics

Digital pathology helps decode tumor microenvironments for precision immunotherapy. GigaPath is a novel vision transformer that can scale to gigapixel whole-slide images by adapting dilated attention for digital pathology. In joint work with Providence and UW, we’re sharing Prov-GigaPath, the first whole-slide pathology foundation model pretrained on large-scale real-world data, for advancing clinical research and discovery.

GigaPath: Whole-Slide Foundation Model for Digital Pathology

Research Forum Ep2 | Panel | Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI

Research Forum 2 | Panel Discussion: Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI

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Scaling early detection of esophageal cancer with AI

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Microsoft Health Futures

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Vermeer: Autoregressive generative modeling of microscopy predicts protein localization

Subbarao Kambhampati, Eric Zimmermann, Emre Hayir, Kevin Kaichuang Yang, Fei Chen, Alex Lu

June 2026

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SmartKC: A Smartphone-based Corneal Topographer

We propose SmartKC, a low-cost, smartphone-based keratoconus diagnosis system comprising of a 3D-printed placido’s disc attachment, an LED light strip, and an intelligent smartphone app to capture the reflection of the placido rings on the…

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BYOeB: Build Your Own expert Bot

BYOeB (Build Your Own Expert Bot) is a platform designed to build expert-in-the-loop WhatsApp-based chatbots. It enables developers to build chatbots that leverages human expertise to verify and edit responses. It is particularly valuable in…

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Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality

Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh

PLOS One | May 2026

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InnerEye-HS: a disease-agnostic clinical tool for hippocampal segmentation

Anna Schroder, James Moggridge, Hamza A. Salhab, Caroline Micallef, Jiaming Wu, Melissa Bristow, Fernando Pérez-García, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Sjoerd B. Vos, Tarek A. Yousry, John S. Thornton, F. Barkhof, J. S. Duncan, Daniel C. Alexander, Matthew Grech‐Sollars

Brain Communications | May 2026

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DisaBench: A Participatory Evaluation Framework for Disability Harms in Language Models

Eugenia Kim, Ioana Tănase, Christina Mallon

May 2026

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CodeClinic: Evaluating Automation of Coding Skills for Clinical Reasoning Agents

Timothy Ossowski, Xinchi Liu, Danyal Maqbool, Vaibhav Dhanuka, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Majid Afshar, Tyler J. Bradshaw, Junjie Hu

May 2026

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Global AI Value Challenge

May 6, 2026 – August 31, 2026 | Global online

AI systems are increasingly used in science, technology, and everyday decision-making. But a harder problem is often overlooked: when an honesty conflicts with kindness, how should an AI system respond? In situations with limited or…

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Mitigating algorithmic unfairness arising from forgetfulness of medical records in clinical artificial intelligence

Yixuan Chen, A. Thakur, A. Soltan, Yifei Shen, Dongsheng Li, Mingzhi Dong, Li Shang, David A. Clifton, Yujiang Wang

Nature Communications | May 2026

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Centering the marginalized: AI-driven strategies for advancing health equity in rare disease care

Chaoyu Lei, Ying Zuo, C. Lopes, Jaimee Stuart, Benjamin Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Thomas Ploug, Zilong Wang, K. Dang, Kai Jin, Haoxuan Yu, H. Tatere, Fanyi Kong, Ningye Zhang, Lufa Zhang, Huifang Zhou

Patterns | May 2026

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