Workshop on Large Foundation Models in Biology and Biomedicine


When AI Watches the Dose: Can Vision-Language Models Perform TB Medication Adherence Assessments Like Clinicians?
Yanqiao Wang,
Patrick Kaggwa,
Heeya Jolly,
Suchendra M. Bhandarkar,
Juliet Nabbuye Sekandi,
Jin Sun
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2026_WACV, author = {Wang, Yanqiao and Kaggwa, Patrick and Jolly, Heeya and Bhandarkar, Suchendra M. and Sekandi, Juliet Nabbuye and Sun, Jin}, title = {When AI Watches the Dose: Can Vision-Language Models Perform TB Medication Adherence Assessments Like Clinicians?}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {11-20} }

ReaMIL: Reasoning- and Evidence-Aware Multiple Instance Learning for Whole-Slide Histopathology
Hyun Do Jung,
Jungwon Choi,
Hwiyoung Kim
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Jung_2026_WACV, author = {Jung, Hyun Do and Choi, Jungwon and Kim, Hwiyoung}, title = {ReaMIL: Reasoning- and Evidence-Aware Multiple Instance Learning for Whole-Slide Histopathology}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {40-45} }

MedProbCLIP: Probabilistic Adaptation of Vision-Language Foundation Model for Reliable Radiograph-Report Retrieval
Ahmad Elallaf,
Yu Zhang,
Yuktha Masupalli,
Jeong Yang,
Young Lee,
Zechun Cao,
Gongbo Liang
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Elallaf_2026_WACV, author = {Elallaf, Ahmad and Zhang, Yu and Masupalli, Yuktha and Yang, Jeong and Lee, Young and Cao, Zechun and Liang, Gongbo}, title = {MedProbCLIP: Probabilistic Adaptation of Vision-Language Foundation Model for Reliable Radiograph-Report Retrieval}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1-10} }

Controllable Image Synthesis for Endoscopy: Leveraging Text and Spatial Guidance in Diffusion Models
Lu Xu,
Anuja Vats,
Marius Pedersen,
Kiran Raja
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Xu_2026_WACV, author = {Xu, Lu and Vats, Anuja and Pedersen, Marius and Raja, Kiran}, title = {Controllable Image Synthesis for Endoscopy: Leveraging Text and Spatial Guidance in Diffusion Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {30-39} }

NEURO-GUARD: Neuro-Symbolic Generalization and Unbiased Adaptive Routing for Diagnostics - Explainable Medical AI
Midhat Urooj,
Ayan Banerjee,
Sandeep Gupta
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Urooj_2026_WACV, author = {Urooj, Midhat and Banerjee, Ayan and Gupta, Sandeep}, title = {NEURO-GUARD: Neuro-Symbolic Generalization and Unbiased Adaptive Routing for Diagnostics - Explainable Medical AI}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {21-29} }