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| Hoifung Poon, Theodore Zhao, Aiden Gu, Mu Wei, and Sheng Wang

BiomedParse reimagines medical image analysis, integrating advanced AI to capture complex insights across imaging types—a step forward for diagnostics and precision medicine.

In the news | AAMC

Microsoft exec and Learn Serve Lead 2024 speaker James Weinstein, DO, says the technology could eventually expand access and quality, but privacy concerns remain. While artificial intelligence (AI) tools are drawing attention for their potential to improve doctor-patient dynamics —…

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| Max Ilse, Daniel Coelho de Castro, and Javier Alvarez-Valle

RadEdit stress-tests biomedical vision models by simulating dataset shifts through precise image editing. It uses diffusion models to create realistic, synthetic datasets, helping to identify model weaknesses and evaluate robustness.

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Explore multimodal & small language models, plus advanced benchmarks for AI evaluation. Microsoft researchers are working on breakthroughs in weather prediction, materials design, even a new kind of computer for AI inference and hard optimization problems.

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| Kristen Severson and Philip Rosenfield

Microsoft researchers collaborated to release new pathology foundation models. Their report shows models benefit from diverse data, increased model size, and specialized algorithms to enhance the accuracy and applicability of cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Research Focus: June 24, 2024
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In this issue: RENC makes 5G vRAN servers more energy efficient; CoExplorer uses AI to keep video meetings on track; Automatic bug detection in LLM-powered text-based games; MAIRA-2: Grounded radiology report generation.

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.
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| Hoifung Poon and Naoto Usuyama

Digital pathology helps decode tumor microenvironments for precision immunotherapy. In joint work with Providence and UW, we’re sharing Prov-GigaPath, the first whole-slide pathology foundation model, for advancing clinical research.

In the news | Forbes

Microsoft is delving even deeper into clinical medicine, evident by the announcement today highlighting the company’s development of a foundation model for pathology in partnership with Providence and the University of Washington. Specifically, the company has leveraged its significant work…

In the news | GeekWire

Researchers at Microsoft, Providence Health System and the University of Washington say they’ve developed a new artificial intelligence model for diagnosing cancer, based on an analysis of more than a billion images of tissue samples from more than 30,000 patients.…