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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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Reimagining healthcare delivery and public health with AI

August 7, 2025

Former Washington State Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah and Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia explore how healthcare leaders are approaching AI when it comes to public health, care delivery, the healthcare-research connection, and…

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AI-Enhanced Sensemaking: Exploring the Design of a Generative AI-Based Assistant to Support Genetic Professionals

Angela Mastrianni, Hope Twede, Aleksandra Sarcevic, Jeremiah Wander, C. Austin-Tse, Scott Saponas, Heidi L. Rehm, A. M. Conard, Amanda K. Hall

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems | August 2025

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Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study

Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha

PloS One | August 2025

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Navigating medical education in the era of generative AI

July 24, 2025

Next-generation physicians Morgan Cheatham and Daniel Chen discuss how generative AI is transforming medical education, exploring how students and attending physicians integrate new tools while navigating questions on trust, training, and responsibility.

AI Revolution | Illustrated headshots of Daniel Chen, Peter Lee, and Dr. Morgan Cheatham

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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

July 2025

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Insights into a radiology-specialised multimodal large language model with sparse autoencoders

Kenza Bouzid, Shruthi Bannur, Felix Meissen, Daniel Coelho de Castro, Anton Schwaighofer, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Stephanie Hyland

Actionable Interpretability Workshop – ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection

Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge

Radiology | July 2025

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Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with BioEmu

July 10, 2025 | Frank Noé

Following the sequence and structure revolutions, predicting functionally relevant protein structure changes at scale remains an outstanding challenge. Microsoft Research AI for Science introduces BioEmu, a deep learning system that emulates protein equilibrium ensembles by…

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How AI will accelerate biomedical research and discovery

July 10, 2025

Daphne Koller, Noubar Afeyan, and Dr. Eric Topol, leaders in AI-driven medicine, discuss how AI is changing biomedical research and discovery, from accelerating drug target identification and biotech R&D to helping pursue the “holy grail”…

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Hybridization-encoded DNA tags with paper-based readout for anti-forgery raw material tracking

Jiaming Li, Alex Crown, Peter Ney, Sergey Yekhanin, Aditi Partap, A. Shirole, Huiting Jiang, Sagan Russ, Max Gordon, Adaora Aroh, Jeff Nivala, Anirudh Badam, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Karin Strauss, Ranveer Chandra, Yuan-Jyue Chen

Nature Communications | July 2025, Vol 16

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