Foundation Models in Medicine — 2026 · Paper list (32)¶

July 2026 (1)¶

Date	Paper	Venue	Why selected
2026-07-01	Discrete Diffusion Language Models for Interactive Radiology Report Drafting	—	—

Date	Paper	Venue	Why selected
2026-06-27	The strength of clinical evidence is recoverable from language model representations but not from their stated grades	—	—
2026-06-23	Jolia: Concept-Level Vision-Language Alignment for 3D CT Contrastive Learning	—	—
2026-06-17	PEFT-MedSAM: Efficient Fine-Tuning of Medical Foundation Models for Explainable Skin Lesion Segmentation	—	—
2026-06-11	Masked and Predictive Self-Supervised Foundation Models for 3D Brain MRI	—	—

Date	Paper	Venue	Why selected
2026-05-28	Counterfactual Evaluation Reveals Hidden Capability Profiles in Clinical LLMs and Agents	—	—
2026-05-28	Why Specialist Models Still Matter: A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Paradigm for Medical Artificial Intelligence	ICML 2026	—
2026-05-18	MedFM-Robust: Benchmarking Robustness of Medical Foundation Models	—	—
2026-05-10	CLR-voyance: Reinforcing Open-Ended Reasoning for Inpatient Clinical Decision Support with Outcome-Aware Rubrics	—	—
2026-05-08	Benchmarking Foundation Models for Renal Lesion Stratification in CT	—	—
2026-05-06	Deep Reprogramming Distillation for Medical Foundation Models	—	—
2026-05-05	Safety and accuracy follow different scaling laws in clinical large language models	—	—

Date	Paper	Venue	Why selected
2026-04-27	EXACT: an explainable anomaly-aware vision foundation model for analysis of 3D chest CT	—	—
2026-04-27	Quantum Kernel Advantage over Classical Collapse in Medical Foundation Model Embeddings	—	—
2026-04-24	A Nationwide Japanese Medical Claims Foundation Model: Balancing Model Scaling and Task-Specific Computational Efficiency	—	—
2026-04-10	M-IDoL: Information Decomposition for Modality-Specific and Diverse Representation Learning in Medical Foundation Model	—	—
2026-04-09	Weight Group-wise Post-Training Quantization for Medical Foundation Model	—	—
2026-04-06	Temporal Inversion for Learning Interval Change in Chest X-Rays	—	—

Date	Paper	Venue	Why selected
2026-03-29	Project Imaging-X: A Survey of 1000+ Open-Access Medical Imaging Datasets for Foundation Model Development	—	—
2026-03-14	EyeWorld: A Generative World Model of Ocular State and Dynamics	—	—
2026-03-14	Learning Generalizable 3D Medical Image Representations from Mask-Guided Self-Supervision	CVPR 2026	—
2026-03-03	Designing UNICORN: a Unified Benchmark for Imaging in Computational Pathology, Radiology, and Natural Language	—	—

Date	Paper	Venue	Why selected
2026-02-28	Specializing Foundation Models via Mixture of Low-Rank Experts for Comprehensive Head CT Analysis	—	—
2026-02-27	Topology-Driven Transferability Estimation of Medical Foundation Models for Segmentation	—	—
2026-02-12	Free Lunch in Medical Image Foundation Model Pre-training via Randomized Synthesis and Disentanglement	—	—
2026-02-11	A Vision-Language Foundation Model for Zero-shot Clinical Collaboration and Automated Concept Discovery in Dermatology	—	—
2026-02-07	Uncovering Modality Discrepancy and Generalization Illusion for General-Purpose 3D Medical Segmentation	—	—

Date	Paper	Venue	Why selected
2026-01-25	From Specialist to Generalist: Unlocking SAM's Learning Potential on Unlabeled Medical Images	ISBI 2026	—
2026-01-24	FMIR, a foundation model-based Image Registration Framework for Robust Image Registration	ISBI 2026	—
2026-01-18	A Hierarchical Benchmark of Foundation Models for Dermatology	—	—
2026-01-16	UniX: Unifying Autoregression and Diffusion for Chest X-Ray Understanding and Generation	—	—
2026-01-10	Imaging-anchored Multiomics in Cardiovascular Disease: Integrating Cardiac Imaging, Bulk, Single-cell, and Spatial Transcriptomics	—	—