Welcome to the AI4Path Lab Journal Club! Our sessions happen every Tuesday and Friday from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time (ET), chaired by senior researchers. We discuss the latest cutting-edge research in computational pathology and AI applications across various domains.
Each session features a presenter discussing an innovative paper, followed by an engaging discussion where members share insights, highlight strengths and weaknesses, and explore new ideas. This collaborative learning experience is invaluable for deepening understanding beyond just reading papers.
If you are passionate about AI in computational pathology and want to present or participate, submit your details below.
Upcoming Sessions
| Date | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Sep 26, 2025 | Tianyang Wang, Yixin Chen, Alejandro Levya | “Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems” |
| Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025 | Yixin Chen | “Explainable AI for computational pathology identifies model limitations and tissue biomarkers” |
| Friday, Oct 3, 2025 | Zhengjie Zhu | “Cellpose-SAM: superhuman generalization for cellular segmentation” |
| Tuesday, Oct 07, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | |
| Friday, Oct 10, 2025 | Hao Lu, PhD | |
| Tuesday, Oct 14, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI” |
| Friday, Oct 17, 2025 | Ziyu Su, PhD | |
| Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025 | Hikmat Khan, PhD | |
| Friday, Oct 24, 2025 | Onur Koyun, PhD | |
| Tuesday, Oct 28, 2025 | Yashbir (Yash) Singh, ME, PhD | [Guest Speaker] |
| Friday, Oct 31, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | |
| Tuesday, Nov 04, 2025 | Yongxin Guo | |
| Friday, Nov 07, 2025 | Thomas Tavolara, PhD | “Generative Medical Event Models Improve with Scale” |
| Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025 | Alejandro Leyva | |
| Friday, Nov 14, 2025 | Abbas Alili, PhD | |
| Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025 | Shihua Qin | |
| Friday, Nov 21, 2025 | Alaa Abukaresh | |
| Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025 | Tianyang Wang | |
| Friday, Nov 28, 2025 | Yixin Chen | |
| Tuesday, Dec 02, 2025 | Zhengjie Zhu |
Recent Sessions
| Date | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Sep 23, 2025 | Alaa Abukaresh | “SepsisLab: Early Sepsis Prediction with Uncertainty Quantification and Active Sensing” |
| Friday, Sep 19, 2025 | Shihua Qin | “PURE: Turning Polysemantic Neurons Into Pure Features by Identifying Relevant Circuits” |
| Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025 | Alejandro Levya | “Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in primates and humans” |
| Friday, Sep 12, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | “Vision Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions” |
| Tuesday, Sep 09, 2025 | Alejandro Leyva | “M3-GloDets: Multi-Region and Multi-Scale Analysis of Fine-Grained Diseased Glomerular Detection” |
| Friday, Sep 05, 2025 | Yongxin Guo | “PTCMIL: Multiple Instance Learning via Prompt Token Clustering for Whole Slide Image Analysis” |
| Tuesday, Sep 02, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | “RadZero: Similarity-Based Cross-Attention for Explainable Vision-Language Alignment in Radiology with Zero-Shot Multi-Task Capability” |
| Friday, Aug 29, 2025 | Onur Koyun, PhD | “Double-Tier Attention Based Multi-label Learning Network for Predicting Biomarkers from Whole Slide Images of Breast Cancer” |
| Tuesday, Aug 26, 2025 | Hikmat Khan, PhD | “CytoFM: The first cytology foundation model” |
| Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 | Ziyu Su, PhD | “Segment Anything in Pathology Images with Natural Language” |
| Monday, Aug 18, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | “DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment” |
| Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 | Abbas Alili, PhD | “CellSAM: A Foundation Model for Cell Segmentation” |
| Monday, Aug 11, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “Learning biologically relevant features in a pathology foundation model using sparse autoencoders” |
| Wednesday, Aug 06, 2025 | Yuhang Kang | “SonicVisionLM: Playing Sound with Vision Language Models” |
| Monday, Aug 04, 2025 | Hao Lu, PhD | “Restructuring Vector Quantization with the Rotation Trick” |
| Wednesday, Jul 30, 2025 | Azadeh Fakhrzadeh, PhD | [Guest Speaker] “Histology Image Segmentation Using Pretrained Vision Transformers” |
| Monday, Jul 28, 2025 | Alejandro Leyva | “Gene-DML: Dual-Pathway Multi-Level Discrimination for Gene Expression Prediction from Histopathology Images” |
| Wednesday, Jul 23, 2025 | Thomas Tavolara, PhD | “PTaRL: Prototype-based Tabular Representation Learning via Space Calibration” |
| Monday, Jul 21, 2025 | Yongxin Guo | “Prototype Learning for Explainable Brain Age Prediction” |
| Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | “CTUSurv: A Cell-Aware Transformer-Based Network With Uncertainty for Survival Prediction Using Whole Slide Images” |
| Monday, Jul 14, 2025 | Onur Koyun, PhD | “Scalable Generation of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via Whole-Slide Flow Matching” |
| Wednesday, Jul 09, 2025 | Hikmat Khan, PhD | “Do Multiple Instance Learning Models Transfer?” |
| Monday, Jul 07, 2025 | Ziyu Su, PhD | “CustomKD: Customizing Large Vision Foundation for Edge Model Improvement via Knowledge Distillation” |
| Wednesday, Jul 02, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | “Revisiting End-to-End Learning with Slide-level Supervision in Computational Pathology” |
| Monday, Jun 30, 2025 | Hao Lu, PhD | “Dinomaly: The Less Is More Philosophy in Multi-Class Unsupervised Anomaly Detection” |
| Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “Predicting the tumor microenvironment composition and immunotherapy response in non-small cell lung cancer from digital histopathology images” |
| Monday, Jun 23, 2025 | Abbas Alili, PhD | “Predicting Nottingham grade in breast cancer digital pathology using a foundation model” |
| Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025 | Alejandro Leyva | “Combining spatial transcriptomics with tissue morphology” |
| Monday, Jun 16, 2025 | Thomas Tavolara, PhD | “Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data” |
| Wednesday, Jun 11, 2025 | Onur Koyun, PhD | “Multi-Resolution Pathology-Language Pre-training Model with Text-Guided Visual Representation” |
| Monday, Jun 09, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | “PointFormer: Keypoint-Guided Transformer for Simultaneous Nuclei Segmentation and Classification in Multi-Tissue Histology Images” |
| Wednesday, Jun 04, 2025 | Yongxin Guo | “Quantifying Attention Flow in Transformers” |
| Monday, Jun 02, 2025 | Hikmat Khan, PhD | “Prototype-Based Multiple Instance Learning for Gigapixel Whole Slide Image Classification” |
| Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | Ziyu Su, PhD | “Towards A Generalizable Pathology Foundation Model via Unified Knowledge Distillation” |
| Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | “Combining 3D Image and Tabular Data via the Dynamic Affine Feature Map Transform” |
| Monday, May 19, 2025 | Hao Lu, PhD | “Self-generated Defocus Blur Detection via Dual Adversarial Discriminators” |
| Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “KG4Diagnosis: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent LLM Framework with Knowledge Graph Enhancement for Medical Diagnosis” |
| Monday, May 12, 2025 | Abbas Alili, PhD | ” BulkRNABert: Cancer prognosis from bulk RNA-seq based language models” |
| Wednesday, May 07, 2025 | Thomas Tavolara, PhD | “Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet” |
| Monday, May 05, 2025 | Alejandro Leyva | “FHBench: Towards Efficient and Personalized Federated Learning for Multimodal Healthcare” |
| Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025 | Hikmat Khan, PhD | “UnCLe SAM: Unleashing SAM’s Potential for Continual Prostate MRI Segmentation” |
| Monday, Apr 28, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | “Unsupervised Foundation Model-Agnostic Slide-Level Representation Learning” |
| Wednesday, Apr 23, 2025 | Onur Koyun, PhD | “Manifold Mixup: Better Representations by Interpolating Hidden States” |
| Monday, Apr 21, 2025 | Yongxin Guo | “Histo-Genomic Knowledge Distillation For Cancer Prognosis From Histopathology Whole Slide Images” |
| Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025 | Mesut Sekar, PhD | “Tissue concepts: Supervised foundation models in computational pathology” |
| Monday, Apr 14, 2025 | Ziyu Su, PhD | “Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think” |
| Wednesday, Apr 09, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | “Deep Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features” |
| Monday, Apr 07, 2025 | Hao Lu, PhD | “DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models” |
| Wednesday, Apr 02, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “PathFinder: A Multi-Modal Multi-Agent System for Medical Diagnostic Decision-Making Applied to Histopathology” |
| Monday, Mar 31, 2025 | Thomas Tavolara, PhD | ”Multimodal histopathologic models stratify hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer” |
| Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 | Alejandro Leyva | ”SPIDER: A Comprehensive Multi-Organ Supervised Pathology Dataset and Baseline Models” |
| Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | ”Incorporating Probabilistic Domain Knowledge into Deep Multiple Instance Learning” |
| Monday, Mar 24, 2025 | Onur Koyun, PhD | “Knowledge-enhanced Visual-Language Pretraining for Computational Pathology” |
| Wednesday, Mar 19, 2025 | Yongxin Guo | “Prompt Learning with One-Shot Setting based Feature Space Analysis in Vision-and-Language Models” |
| Monday, Mar 17, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | “A vision–language foundation model for precision oncology” |
| Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “Multi-V-Stain: Multiplexed Virtual Staining of Histopathology Whole-Slide Images” |
| Monday, Mar 10, 2025 | Hikmat Khan, PhD | “GUIDE: GUIDANCE-BASED INCREMENTAL LEARNING WITH DIFFUSION MODELS” |
| Wednesday, Mar 05, 2025 | Mesut Sekar, PhD | “A novel convolution transformer-based network for histopathology-image classification using adaptive convolution and dynamic attention” |
| Monday, Mar 03, 2025 | Ziyu Su, PhD | “DEADiff: An Efficient Stylization Diffusion Model with Disentangled Representations” |
| Wednesday, Feb 26, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | “Semi-supervised ViT knowledge distillation network with style transfer normalization for colorectal liver metastases survival prediction” |
| Monday, Feb 24, 2025 | Hao Lu, PhD | “Palette: Image-to-Image Diffusion Models” |
| Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “mTREE: Multi-Level Text-Guided Representation End-to-End Learning for Whole Slide Image Analysis” “Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants” |
| Monday, Feb 17, 2025 | Alejandro Leyva | “MGCT: Mutual-Guided Cross-Modality Transformer for Survival Outcome Prediction using Integrative Histopathology-Genomic Features” |
| Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 | Thomas Tavolara, PhD | “Multimodal Whole Slide Foundation Model for Pathology” |
| Monday, Feb 10, 2025 | Yongxin Guo | “Aligning knowledge concepts to whole slide images for precise histopathology image analysis” |
| Wednesday, Feb 05, 2025 | Usman Afzaal | “Pathology-Knowledge enhanced multi-instance prompt learning for few-shot whole slide image classification” |
| Monday, Feb 03, 2025 | Onur Koyun, PhD | “Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time” |
| Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025 | Hikmat Khan, PhD | “Are Nuclear Masks All You Need For Improved Out-Of-Domain Generalization? A Closer Look At Cancer Classification In Histopathology” |
| Monday, Jan 27, 2025 | Mesut Sekar, PhD | “Feature Re-Embedding: Towards Foundation Model-Level Performance in Computational Pathology” |
| Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025 | Ziyu Su, PhD | “Adaptive Supervised PatchNCE Loss for Learning H&E-to-IHC Stain Translation with Inconsistent Groundtruth Image Pairs” |
| Monday, Jan 20, 2025 | Usama Sajjad | “Automatic data augmentation to improve generalization of deep learning in H&E stained histopathology” |
| Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025 | Hao Lu, PhD | “Anti-Adversarially Manipulated Attributions for Weakly and Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation” |
| Monday, Jan 13, 2025 | Abdul Rehman Akbar | “ChatDev: Communicative Agents for Software Development” |