A guide to artificial intelligence for cancer researchers

R Perez-Lopez, N Ghaffari Laleh, F Mahmood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been commoditized. It has evolved from a specialty resource to
a readily accessible tool for cancer researchers. AI-based tools can boost research …

On the challenges and perspectives of foundation models for medical image analysis

S Zhang, D Metaxas - Medical image analysis, 2024 - Elsevier
This article discusses the opportunities, applications and future directions of large-scale
pretrained models, ie, foundation models, which promise to significantly improve the …

A whole-slide foundation model for digital pathology from real-world data

H Xu, N Usuyama, J Bagga, S Zhang, R Rao… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Digital pathology poses unique computational challenges, as a standard gigapixel slide may
comprise tens of thousands of image tiles,–. Prior models have often resorted to …

A deep learning system for predicting time to progression of diabetic retinopathy

L Dai, B Sheng, T Chen, Q Wu, R Liu, C Cai, L Wu… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. The risk
of DR progression is highly variable among different individuals, making it difficult to predict …

A pathology foundation model for cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction

X Wang, J Zhao, E Marostica, W Yuan, J **, J Zhang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Histopathology image evaluation is indispensable for cancer diagnoses and subtype
classification. Standard artificial intelligence methods for histopathology image analyses …

Vision–language foundation model for echocardiogram interpretation

M Christensen, M Vukadinovic, N Yuan, D Ouyang - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The development of robust artificial intelligence models for echocardiography has been
limited by the availability of annotated clinical data. Here, to address this challenge and …

Foundation model for cancer imaging biomarkers

S Pai, D Bontempi, I Hadzic, V Prudente… - Nature machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Foundation models in deep learning are characterized by a single large-scale model trained
on vast amounts of data serving as the foundation for various downstream tasks. Foundation …

Ma-sam: Modality-agnostic sam adaptation for 3d medical image segmentation

C Chen, J Miao, D Wu, A Zhong, Z Yan, S Kim… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general image
segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across numerous …

Transformers in single-cell omics: a review and new perspectives

A Szałata, K Hrovatin, S Becker, A Tejada-Lapuerta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent efforts to construct reference maps of cellular phenotypes have expanded the
volume and diversity of single-cell omics data, providing an unprecedented resource for …

MedLSAM: Localize and segment anything model for 3D CT images

W Lei, W Xu, K Li, X Zhang, S Zhang - Medical Image Analysis, 2025 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in foundation models have shown significant potential in medical
image analysis. However, there is still a gap in models specifically designed for medical …