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

S Zhang, D Metaxas - Medical Image Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
This article discusses the opportunities, applications and future directions of large-scale
pretrained models, ie, foundation models, which promise to significantly improve the …

Segment anything model for medical image segmentation: Current applications and future directions

Y Zhang, Z Shen, R Jiao - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the inherent flexibility of prompting, foundation models have emerged as the
predominant force in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. The …

Clip-driven universal model for organ segmentation and tumor detection

J Liu, Y Zhang, JN Chen, J Xiao, Y Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
An increasing number of public datasets have shown a marked impact on automated organ
segmentation and tumor detection. However, due to the small size and partially labeled …

Data-centric foundation models in computational healthcare: A survey

Y Zhang, J Gao, Z Tan, L Zhou, K Ding, M Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The advent of foundation models (FMs) as an emerging suite of AI techniques has struck a
wave of opportunities in computational healthcare. The interactive nature of these models …

Are Natural Domain Foundation Models Useful for Medical Image Classification?

JP Huix, AR Ganeshan, JF Haslum… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The deep learning field is converging towards the use of general foundation models that can
be easily adapted for diverse tasks. While this paradigm shift has become common practice …

Towards segment anything model (SAM) for medical image segmentation: a survey

Y Zhang, R Jiao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03678, 2023 - arxiv.org
Due to the flexibility of prompting, foundation models have become the dominant force in the
domains of natural language processing and image generation. With the recent introduction …

[HTML][HTML] Mining multi-center heterogeneous medical data with distributed synthetic learning

Q Chang, Z Yan, M Zhou, H Qu, X He, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Overcoming barriers on the use of multi-center data for medical analytics is challenging due
to privacy protection and data heterogeneity in the healthcare system. In this study, we …

Foundation model for advancing healthcare: Challenges, opportunities, and future directions

Y He, F Huang, X Jiang, Y Nie, M Wang, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …

Recommendations for designing conversational companion robots with older adults through foundation models

B Irfan, S Kuoppamäki, G Skantze - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Companion robots are aimed to mitigate loneliness and social isolation among older adults
by providing social and emotional support in their everyday lives. However, older adults' …

PneumoLLM: Harnessing the power of large language model for pneumoconiosis diagnosis

M Song, J Wang, Z Yu, J Wang, L Yang, Y Lu, B Li… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
The conventional pretraining-and-finetuning paradigm, while effective for common diseases
with ample data, faces challenges in diagnosing data-scarce occupational diseases like …