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Whole-transcriptome inference from label-free live-cell phase-contrast microscopy, predicting 18,085 genes without staining or lysing the cells.
University Health Network / University of Toronto / Stanford University
Released September 21, 2025
Micronuclei instance segmentation for fluorescence microscopy, using an anchor-tuned Mask R-CNN to detect micronuclei and link them to parent nuclei.
University Health Network / University of Toronto / Vector Institute
Released September 1, 2025
Image-to-image translation from label-free phase-contrast microscopy to H&E-like images, so pretrained histopathology models run on live cells.
Bowang Lab / University of Toronto / Vector Institute / University Health Network / Arc Institute / UCSF
Released May 29, 2025
DNA-LLM reasoning model fusing genome foundation model embeddings with an LLM to produce step-by-step pathway and variant effect explanations.
Bowang Lab / University Health Network / Vector Institute / University of Toronto / Harvard Medical School
Released April 4, 2025
Promptable 3D medical image and video segmentation foundation model fine-tuned from SAM 2.1, cutting lesion annotation time by up to 92%.
Chest X-ray encoder that detects CT-level abnormalities by aligning radiographs with 3D CT volumes and radiology reports in a shared embedding space.
Bowang Lab / University Health Network / University of Toronto / Vector Institute / Arc Institute / UCSF
Released February 8, 2025
Spatial transcriptomics foundation model continually pretrained on 30 million profiles, with a protocol-aware mixture-of-experts decoder.
Microsoft Research / Imperial College London / Vector Institute / University Health Network
Released February 5, 2025
Autoregressive genomic foundation models from 20M to 1B parameters that solve ten DNA tasks at once and map sequences to text and images.
University of Toronto / University Health Network / Vector Institute / Broad Institute / Structural Genomics Consortium
Released December 20, 2024
Latent diffusion model that paints high-resolution Cell Painting images of cells responding to a chemical compound or an over-expressed gene.
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard University / MIT / University Health Network / University of Toronto / Vector Institute / University of Edinburgh
Released November 3, 2024
DNA methylation foundation model over 49,156 array CpG sites. Imputes missing values, embeds samples, and predicts epigenetic age and disease risk.
Bowang Lab / University Health Network / University of Toronto / Vector Institute / Western University / New York University / Yale University
Released January 22, 2024
Promptable foundation model for universal medical image segmentation, fine-tuned from SAM on 1.57M image-mask pairs across 10 imaging modalities.