female radiologist analyzing an MRI image of the head

Project MAIRA

Multimodal AI for Radiology Applications

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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.

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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.

Research Focus: June 24, 2024
Microsoft Research Blog

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.

Microsoft Research Blog

AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.

EMNLP 2023 blog hero - female radiologist analyzing an MRI image of the head
Microsoft Research Blog

| Javier Alvarez-Valle and Matthew Lungren

This research paper is being presented at the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (opens in new tab) (EMNLP 2023), the premier conference on natural language processing and artificial intelligence. In recent years, AI has been increasingly…

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Microsoft Research Blog

| Ozan Oktay, Javier Alvarez-Valle, and Matthew Lungren

The use of self-supervision from image-text pairs has been a key enabler in the development of scalable and flexible vision-language AI models in not only general domains but also in biomedical domains such as radiology. The goal in the radiology…