Gao Z, He K, Su W, Pang X, Machado I P, Jimenez-Linan M, Rous B, Wang C, Li C, McGough W, Gao S, Zhang D, Gong T, Lu M Y, Mahmood F, Feng M, Li C, Crispin-Ortuzar M. ALPaCA: Adapting Llama for Pathology Context Analysis to enable slide-level question answering[J]. Nature Communications, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76372-z.
D Zhang, J Liu, Y Ma, J Ge, Z Zeng, W Sun, Q Liu, K He, Y Zheng, W Yu, C Li*, Z Gao*. Learnable frozen feature augmentation for few-shot biomarker prediction from pathology whole-slide images. Bioinformatics, 2026, btag597.
Gao Z, Ge J, Lu J, Wu L, Clayton H, Zhang D, Liu J, Machado I P, Chen Y, Crispin-Ortuzar M, Li C. From cells to patients: Multiscale computational pathology in the era of foundation models and vision-language systems[J]. Intelligent Oncology, 2026, 2(3): 100074.
Niu J, Chen J, Zhang D, Lu J, Liao Z, Liu X, Zhong H, Crispin-Ortuzar M, Li C, Gao Z*, Cai Y*. AGE-MIL: Anchor-Guided Evidence Learning for Patient-Level Prediction. Accepted to the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2026.
Ge J, Zhan Y, Zhao W, Zhang D, Wang K, Liu J, Yang C, Li C, Zhang J, Dong Y, Zhang N, Liu Q, Crispin-Ortuzar M, Fu H, Li C, Gao Z. Thinking in Scales: Accelerating Gigapixel Pathology Image Analysis via Adaptive Continuous Reasoning. Accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
D Zhang, Z Gong, X Pang, J Liu, J Lu, H Cui, J Ge, Z Zeng, K Yi, Y Li, S Liu, T Yu, H Wang, M Crispin-Ortuzar, W Yu, C Li, Z Gao*. CARE: A Molecular-Guided Foundation Model with Adaptive Region Modeling for Whole Slide Image Analysis. Accepted to IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
Niu Y, Liu J, Zhan Y, Shi J, Zhang D, Reinius M, Machado I, Crispin-Ortuzar M, Wu J, Li C, Gao Z*. PH2ST: Prompt-Guided Hypergraph Learning for Spatial Transcriptomics Prediction in Whole Slide Images[J]. Medical Image Analysis, 2026: 104008.
Yang C, Zhao W, Tang Y, Lu J, Ge J, Liu Q, Gao Z*, Li C. HAAF: Hierarchical Adaptation and Alignment of Foundation Models for Few-Shot Pathology Anomaly Detection. Accepted to The Web Conference (WWW), 2026.
Kaura SK, Wu J, Gao Z*, Li C*. MegaSeg: Towards Scalable Semantic Segmentation for Megapixel Images. Medical Image Analysis. 2026 Jan 10:103933.
Niu Y, Liu J, Zhan Y, Shi J, Chen J, Zhang D, Li C, Gao Z*. Learning Heterogeneous Embedding with Prototype-Aware Graph Attention for Whole Slide Image Classification[C]. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2025: 2671-2678.
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Ge J, Zhang D, Zhan Y, Liu J, Gong T, Wu J, Crispin M, Li C, Gao Z*. ProGIS: Prototype-Guided Interactive Segmentation for Pathological Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2025.
Zhang D, Ge J, Liu J, Wang C, Gong T, Gao Z*, Li C*. StaDis: Stability distance to detecting out-of-distribution data in computational pathology. Medical Image Analysis. 2025 Aug 27:103774.
Wang, C., Ge, J., Niu, Y., Ding, C., Fan, Y., Chang, H., Yang, Z., Ran, C., Teng, X., Wang, X., Wu, L., Gao, Z.*, Li, C.* (2025). A fully annotated pathology slide dataset for early gastric cancer and precancerous lesions. Scientific Data, 12.
W Knottenbelt, W McGough, R Wray, W Zhang, J Liu, I Machado, Z Gao*, M Crispin*, CoxKAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold networks for interpretable, High-Performance survival analysis, Bioinformatics, 2025
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X Wang, W Su, Y Dong, Y Li, X Zhang, T Gong, IP Machado, M Crispin-Ortuzar, C Li, Z Gao*. Shallow-Deep Synergy: Boosting Cross-Domain Generalization in Histopathological Image Segmentation[C]//2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). IEEE, 2024: 3790-3794.
J Liu, A Mao, Y Niu, X Zhang, T Gong, C Li, Z Gao*. Pamil: Prototype attention-based multiple instance learning for whole slide image classification[C]//International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024: 362-372.
Wang C, Wang X, Gao Z, Ran C, Li C, Ding C. Multiple serous cavity effusion screening based on smear images using vision transformer[J]. Scientific Reports, 2024, 14(1): 7395.
Shi J, Tang L, Gao Z, Li Y, Wang C, Gong T, Li C, Fu H. MG-trans: Multi-scale graph transformer with information bottleneck for whole slide image classification[J]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42(12): 3871-3883.
Shi J, Tang L, Li Y, Zhang X, Gao Z, Zheng Y, Wang C, Gong T, Li C. A structure-aware hierarchical graph-based multiple instance learning framework for pt staging in histopathological image[J]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42(10): 3000-3011.
Gao Z, Mao A, Wu K, et al. Childhood leukemia classification via information bottleneck enhanced hierarchical multi-instance learning[J]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42(8): 2348-2359.
Gao Z, Hong B, Li Y, et al. A semi-supervised multi-task learning framework for cancer classification with weak annotation in whole-slide images[J]. Medical Image Analysis, 2023, 83: 102652.
Gao Z, Mao A, Wu J, et al. Uncertainty-based Model Acceleration for Cancer Classification in Whole-Slide Images[C]//2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). IEEE, 2022: 1534-1538.
Gao Z, Jia C, Li Y, et al. Unsupervised representation learning for tissue segmentation in histopathological images: From global to local contrast[J]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022, 41(12): 3611-3623.
Gao Z, Hong B, Zhang X, et al. Instance-based vision transformer for subtyping of papillary renal cell carcinoma in histopathological image[C]//International conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021: 299-308.
Gao Z, Shi J, Zhang X, et al. Nuclei grading of clear cell renal cell carcinoma in histopathological image by composite high-resolution network[C]//International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021: 132-142.
Gao Z, Puttapirat P, Shi J, et al. Renal cell carcinoma detection and subtyping with minimal point-based annotation in whole-slide images[C]//International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020: 439-448.
Invited talk at Department of Genomic Medicine Summer Conference 2026, Cambridge, UK
Invited talk at AI in Oncology 2026, Paris, France
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