Publications — AIM for Dermatology

2026

Kahler, Sam, Siyuan Yan, Adam Mothershaw, Francesco Leo, Chantal Rutjes, Zhen Yu, Dilki Jayasinghe et al. "Automated classification of site-specific cutaneous photodamage using a convolutional neural network and three-dimensional total body photography." British Journal of Dermatology 194, no. 4 (2026): 737-746. Journal
Jinghan Ru, Siyuan Yan, Yuguo Yin, Yuexian Zou, and Zongyuan Ge. "DermoGPT: Open Weights and Open Data for Morphology-Grounded Dermatological Reasoning MLLMs." arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01868 (2026). Preprint
Siyuan Yan, Xieji Li, Dan Mo, Philipp Tschandl, Yiwen Jiang, Zhonghua Wang, Ming Hu et al. "A Vision-Language Foundation Model for Zero-shot Clinical Collaboration and Automated Concept Discovery in Dermatology." arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.10624 (2026). Preprint

2025

Siyuan Yan, Zhen Yu, Clare Primiero, Cristina Vico-Alonso, Zhonghua Wang, Litao Yang, Philipp Tschandl et al. "A multimodal vision foundation model for clinical dermatology." Nature Medicine 31, no. 8 (2025): 2691-2702. Journal
Kurtansky, Nicholas R., Maura C. Gillis, Noel CF Codella, Brian M. D'Alessandro, Zongyuan Ge, Pascale Guitera, Allan C. Halpern et al. "Automated triage of cancer-suspicious skin lesions with 3D total-body photography." npj Digital Medicine 8, no. 1 (2025): 708. Journal
Zhen Yu, Ruiye Chen, Peng Gui, Wei Wang, Imran Razzak, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Xiaomin Zeng et al. "A cross population study of retinal aging biomarkers with longitudinal pre-training and label distribution learning." npj Digital Medicine 8, no. 1 (2025): 344. Journal
Nyi Nyi Soe, Phyu Mon Latt, David M. Lee, Zhen Yu, Martina Schmidt, Melanie Bissessor, Ei Thu Aung et al. "Using deep learning systems for diagnosing common skin lesions in sexual health." Communications Medicine 5, no. 1 (2025): 452. Journal
Jiajun Sun, Zhen Yu, Yingping Li, Janet M. Towns, Lin Zhang, Jason J. Ong, Zongyuan Ge, Christopher K. Fairley, and Lei Zhang. "Radiomics analysis for the early diagnosis of common sexually transmitted infections and skin lesions." PLOS Digital Health 4, no. 7 (2025): e0000926. Journal
Zhen Yu, Toan D. Nguyen, Lie Ju, Yaniv Gal, Maithili Sashindranath, Paul Bonnington, Lei Zhang, Victoria Mar, and Zongyuan Ge. "Hierarchical skin lesion image classification with prototypical decision tree." NPJ Digital Medicine 8, no. 1 (2025): 26. Journal
Jiajun Sun, Yingping Li, Zhen Yu, Janet M. Towns, Nyi N. Soe, Phyu M. Latt, Lin Zhang et al. "Exploring artificial intelligence for differentiating early syphilis from other skin lesions: a pilot study." BMC Infectious Diseases 25, no. 1 (2025): 40. Journal
Li, Xieji, Siyuan Yan, Yingsheng Liu, H. Peter Soyer, Monika Janda, Victoria Mar, and Zongyuan Ge. "Multi-Aspect Knowledge-Enhanced Medical Vision-Language Pretraining with Multi-Agent Data Generation." 2025, Under revision. Under Review
Siyuan Yan, Ming Hu, Yiwen Jiang, Xieji Li, Hao Fei, Philipp Tschandl, Harald Kittler, and Zongyuan Ge. "Derm1M: A million-scale vision-language dataset aligned with clinical ontology knowledge for dermatology." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 12681-12690. 2025. Conference
Siyuan Yan, Xieji Li, Ming Hu, Yiwen Jiang, Zhen Yu, and Zongyuan Ge. "Make: Multi-aspect knowledge-enhanced vision-language pretraining for zero-shot dermatological assessment." International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 369-379. 2025. Conference
Jiajun Sun, Zhen Yu, Siyuan Yan, Jason J. Ong, Zongyuan Ge, and Lei Zhang. "Controllable Skin Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Vector Autoregression Model." International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 129-139. 2025. Conference

2021 – 2024

Siyuan Yan, Zhen Yu, Chi Liu, Lie Ju, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Brigid Betz-Stablein, Victoria Mar, Monika Janda, Peter Soyer, and Zongyuan Ge. "Prompt-driven latent domain generalization for medical image classification." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 44, no. 1 (2024): 348-360. Journal
Nyi Nyi Soe, Zhen Yu, Phyu Mon Latt, David Lee, Ranjit Singh Samra, Zongyuan Ge, Rashidur Rahman et al. "Using AI to differentiate mpox from common skin lesions in a sexual health clinic: algorithm development and validation study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 26 (2024): e52490. Journal
Nyi Nyi Soe, Zhen Yu, Phyu M. Latt, David Lee, Jason J. Ong, Zongyuan Ge, Christopher K. Fairley, and Lei Zhang. "Evaluation of artificial intelligence-powered screening for sexually transmitted infections-related skin lesions using clinical images and metadata." BMC Medicine 22, no. 1 (2024): 296. Journal
Nyi Nyi Soe, Phyu Mon Latt, Zhen Yu, David Lee, Cham-Mill Kim, Daniel Tran, Jason J. Ong, Zongyuan Ge, Christopher K. Fairley, and Lei Zhang. "Clinical features-based machine learning models to separate sexually transmitted infections from other skin diagnoses." Journal of Infection 88, no. 4 (2024): 106128. Journal
Siyuan Yan, Chi Liu, Zhen Yu, Lie Ju, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Victoria Mar, Monika Janda, Peter Soyer, and Zongyuan Ge. "EPVT: Environment-aware prompt vision transformer for domain generalization in skin lesion recognition." International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 249-259. 2023. Conference
Siyuan Yan, Zhen Yu, Xuelin Zhang, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Shekhar S. Chandra, Monika Janda, Peter Soyer, and Zongyuan Ge. "Towards trustable skin cancer diagnosis via rewriting model's decision." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 11568-11577. 2023. Conference
Nyi Nyi Soe, Zhen Yu, Phyu Mon Latt, David Lee, R. S. Samra, J. Sun, Z. Ge et al. "Distinguishing monkeypox from common skin lesions using artificial intelligence in a sexual health clinic: a feasibility study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 20, no. 5 (2023). Journal
Zhen Yu, Toan Nguyen, Yaniv Gal, Lie Ju, Shekhar S. Chandra, Lei Zhang, Paul Bonnington, Victoria Mar, Zhiyong Wang, and Zongyuan Ge. "Skin lesion recognition with class-hierarchy regularized hyperbolic embeddings." International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 594-603. 2022. Conference
Xianglong Xu, Zhen Yu, Zongyuan Ge, Eric PF Chow, Yining Bao, Jason J. Ong, Wei Li, Jinrong Wu, Christopher K. Fairley, and Lei Zhang. "Web-based risk prediction tool for an individual's risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections using machine learning algorithms: development and external validation study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 24, no. 8 (2022): e37850. Journal
Oloruntoba, Ibukun, Tine Vestergaard, Toan D. Nguyen, Zhen Yu, Maithili Sashindranath, Brigid Betz-Stablein, H. Peter Soyer, Zongyuan Ge, and Victoria Mar. "Generalisability of deep learning models trained on standardised and non-standardised images: retrospective comparative study." JMIR Dermatology 5, no. 3 (2022): e35150. Journal
Zhen Yu, Jennifer Nguyen, Toan D. Nguyen, John Kelly, Catriona Mclean, Paul Bonnington, Lei Zhang, Victoria Mar, and Zongyuan Ge. "Early melanoma diagnosis with sequential dermoscopic images." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 41, no. 3 (2021): 633-646. Journal
Zhen Yu, Victoria Mar, Anders Eriksson, Shakes Chandra, Paul Bonnington, Lei Zhang, and Zongyuan Ge. "End-to-end ugly duckling sign detection for melanoma identification with transformers." International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 176-184. 2021. Conference