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Computer-aided diagnosis for lung cancer screening

Posted by Atilla Kiraly, Software Engineer, and Rory Pilgrim, Product Manager, Google Research Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally with 1. 8 million deaths reported in 2020.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Foundation Models vs. Radiomics for Lung Computed Tomography: A Benchmark of Feature Extractors, Classification Heads, and Segmentation Choices

arXiv:2607. 01001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiomics is the established approach for CT-based lung cancer phenotyping, yet comparisons with foundation models rarely isolate contributions of feature extractor, classification head, and segmentation choice, or test cross-cohort robustness.

By Nils Neukirch, Martin Maurer, Nils Strodthoff
arXiv AI
2d ago

FZ-VLM: A Two Stage Florence-Zephyr Vision Language Model Framework for Pulmonary Nodule Characterization and Clinical Decision Making

arXiv:2608. 15004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, and Computed Tomography (CT) is a primary imaging tool for screening and followup assessment.

By Pramit Dutta, Jenita Manokaran, Richa Mittal, Ryan Appleby, Eranga Ukwatta
Google AI Blog
Mar 13, 2024

Health-specific embedding tools for dermatology and pathology

Posted by Dave Steiner, Clinical Research Scientist, Google Health, and Rory Pilgrim, Product Manager, Google Research There’s a worldwide shortage of access to medical imaging expert interpretation across specialties including radiology , dermatology and pathology . Machine learning (ML) technology can help ease this burden by powering tools that enable doctors to interpret these images more accurately and efficiently.

By Google AI
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Multimodality Stacking with Blockwise missing values and application to the PIONeeR biomarkers study for prediction of resistance to immunotherapy

arXiv:2605. 25050v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Integrating multimodal datasets in clinical oncology is frequently hindered by high dimensionality and blockwise missingness, where entire data sources are unavailable for specific patient subsets.

By Mohamed Boussena, Florence Monville, Jacques Fieschi-Meric, Frederic Vely, Pierre Milpied, Julien Mazieres, Maurice Perol, Eric Vivier, Laurent Greillier, Fabrice Barlesi, Sebastien Benzekry
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

RESPClinBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Clinical Decision-Making and Longitudinal Disease Management in Respiratory Specialty Care

Background: Respiratory specialty care requires multimodal interpretation, longitudinal risk assessment, guideline-concordant intervention, and whole-course management, which are poorly represented by examination-oriented medical benchmarks. Objective: To develop RESPClinBench, a real-world scenario-based benchmark for respiratory clinical decision-making, and evaluate seven contemporary large language models across AECOPD-PIM and PNBIM.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Seeing Below the Limit of Detection: A Censored-Poisson Bayesian Latent-Growth Change-Point Detector (the Span Detector) for Serial ctDNA in HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer

arXiv:2606. 11876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Circulating-tumour DNA (ctDNA) carries evidence of drug resistance months before imaging shows it, but the earliest evidence lives below the assay's limit of detection (LoD): a nascent subclone is detected only intermittently, producing a flickering sequence of faint detects and non-detects.

By Aarchi Singh Thakur, Abhijoy Sarkar
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Mitosis Detection in the Wild: Multi-Tumor and Context-Aware Generalization in the MIDOG 2025 Challenge

arXiv:2606. 07368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated mitosis detection is a well-established task in computational pathology.

By Marc Aubreville, Jonas Ammeling, Sweta Banerjee, Viktoria Weiss, Taryn A. Donovan, Robert Klopfleisch, Jiaqi Lv, Shan E Ahmed Raza, Rapha\"el Bourgade, Thomas Walter, Yasemin Topuz, Song\"ul Varl{\i}, Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete, Zhuoyan Shen, Navya Sri Kelam, Nitin Singhal, Christian Marzahl, Brian Napora, Tengyou Xu, Hongyan Gu, Mario Vento, Gennaro Percannella, Norbert Ropiak, Izabela Wasiak, Jie Xiao, Shaojun Liu, Seungho Choe, April Khademi, Vidushi Walia, Sujatha Kotte, Andrew Broad, Alex Wright, Guillaume Balezo, Esha Sadia Nasir, Mostafa Jahanifar, Yosuke Yamagishi, Shouhei Hanaoka, Mattia Sarno, Francesco Tortorella, Biwen Meng, Jingxin Liu, Sara Krauss, Daniel Hieber, Lavish Ramchandani, Dev Kumar Das, Mieko Ochi, Yuan Bae, Piotr Giedziun, Mateusz Maniewski, Vangala Govindakrishnan Saipradeep, Naveen Sivadasan, Leire Benito-Del-Valle, Adrian Galdran, Kaustubh Atey, Sameer Anand Jha, Adinath Dukre, Imran Razzak, Maxime W. Lafarge, Viktor H. Koelzer, Nils Porsche, Nikolas Stathonikos, Mitko Veta, Dominik Hirling, Zsanett Zs\'ofia Iv\'an, Peter Horvath, Katharina Breininger, Christof A. Bertram