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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

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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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Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019

Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks

International Journal of Public Health | February 2025

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National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot

Microsoft is delighted to contribute as a lead supporter of the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot. (opens in new tab) The mission of the NAIRR pilot aligns with our commitment to broaden AI research…

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Beyond Hospital Walls: Transforming Healthcare with In-Home Monitoring

The rise of chronic diseases and the growing demand for personalized treatments drive our exploration of continuous monitoring systems. Our wireless and wearable sensing technologies are designed to continuously track vital signs and body movement…

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AI in the Era of GPT: Transforming the Future of Work and Discovery

Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Charles K Crawford, Steven P Rowe

Journal of the American College of Radiology | February 2025

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Boosting GPT Models for Genomics Analysis: Generating Trusted Genetic Variant Annotations and Interpretations through RAG and fine-tuning

Shuangjia Lu, Erdal Cosgun

Bioinformatics Advances | February 2025

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January 31, 2025

In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.

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LLaVA-Rad MIMIC-CXR Annotations

Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves (juanza), Shih-Cheng Huang, Yanbo Xu, Hanwen Xu, Naoto Usuyama (naotous), Sheng Zhang, Fei Wang, Yujia Xie, Mahmoud Khademi, Ziyi Yang, Hany Awadalla, Julia Gong, Houdong Hu, Jianwei Yang, Chunyuan Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yu Gu, Cliff Wong, Mu-Hsin Wei, Tristan Naumann, Muhao Chen, Matthew P Lungren, Akshay Chaudhari, Serena Yeung, Curtis Langlotz, Sheng Wang, Hoifung Poon

January 2025

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A generative model for inorganic materials design

Claudio Zeni, Robert Pinsler, Daniel Zügner, Andrew Fowler, Matthew Horton, Xiang Fu, Zilong Wang, Aliaksandra Shysheya, Jonathan Crabbé, Shoko Ueda, Roberto Sordillo, Lixin Sun, Jake Smith, Bichlien Nguyen, Hannes Schulz, Sarah Lewis, Chin-Wei Huang, Ziheng Lu, Yichi Zhou, Han Yang, Hongxia Hao, Jielan Li, Chunlei Yang, Wenjie Li, Ryota Tomioka, Tian Xie

Nature | January 2025

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Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models

Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute

Ophthalmology Science | January 2025

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Exploring Scalable Medical Image Encoders Beyond Text Supervision

Fernando Pérez-García, Harshita Sharma, Sam Bond-Taylor, Kenza Bouzid, Valentina Salvatelli, Maximilian Ilse, Shruthi Bannur, Daniel Coelho de Castro, Anton Schwaighofer, Matthew P Lungren, Noel Codella, Stephanie Hyland, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Ozan Oktay

Nature Machine Intelligence | January 2025, Vol 7: pp. 119-130

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