Journal Club
A 2024 paper that performed a systematic analysis of segmentation models identified this framework as the state-of-the-art.
What is nnU-Net?
In 2021, the term "foundation model" was coined by researchers from this university.
What is Stanford University?
This Canadian-American actress played a highly ambitious and driven Stanford School of Medicine graduate.
Who is Sandra Oh?
This creator holds the record for the most subscribers on YouTube.
Who is MrBeast?
This process involves outlining or labeling structures or lesions on medical images to create ground truth for AI training.
What is annotation?
Reviewer 2 starts their comments with this seemingly polite phrase that signals doom.
What is “Thank you for your interesting submission”?
This vision-language model, trained using a unified pretraining strategy, is capable of performing both understanding and generation tasks.
What is Chameleon?
Released by OpenAI in 2021, this widely-used model was inspired by a paper from the Langlotz Lab.
What is CLIP?
This informal unit of measurement compares radiation exposure to eating fruit; by that math, a chest CT ≈ 70,000 of them.
What is the banana equivalent dose?
This video game has sold more copies than any other in history.
What is Minecraft?
Weak supervision often uses these imperfect proxies instead of pixel-level labels.
What are noisy labels?
Reviewer 2 claims your 0.90 AUC improvement is meaningless because you didn’t test on this kind of dataset.
What is external validation?
This model family excels at medical image-text reasoning tasks and comes in 4B and 27B parameter variants.
What is MedGemma?
DeepSeek-R1 utilized this reinforcement learning technique to improve reasoning capabilities.
What is Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)?
A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of this disease.
What is the Bubonic plague?
This is the world-record time for Usain Bolt’s 200m dash.
What is 19.19 seconds?
When two radiologists disagree on whether a lesion is present, this metric can quantify their agreement.
What is Cohen’s kappa?
Reviewer 2 accuses your model of being a “black box” and demands this technique.
What is explainability?
In a controversial 2025 paper from Apple, the authors claimed that reasoning models completely collapse when problems exhibit _________.
What is high complexity?
Developed at UC Berkeley, this Python package can be used to improve inference efficiency of almost any HuggingFace model.
What is vLLM?
This classroom computer game popularized the ‘you have died of dysentery’ message.
What is The Oregon Trail video game?
This player ranks second all-time in NBA career 3-pointers made, behind Steph Curry.
Who is James Harden?
In neuroimaging, these structured templates define standard brain space to which subject images are aligned.
What are brain atlases?
Reviewer 2 writes, “The authors should evaluate generalization on external data.” You’ve already done this and shown it in this section.
What is the Supplementary Materials?
A single neuron in a neural network may fire for multiple unrelated concepts, a property known as ________.
What is polysemanticity?
Developed by Meta in 2022 to perform scientific reasoning tasks, this LLM was taken offline after just two days due to high rates of hallucinations.
What is Galactica?
In 1799, George Washington underwent repeated sessions of this treatment (now believed to have hastened his death).
What is bloodletting (or venesection)?
This band holds the record for the most No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Who are The Beatles?
Your model’s output improves when you crop out the lesion entirely.
What is context bias
Reviewer 2 ends with: “This paper could be accepted if the authors completely redesign the study, retrain the models, and add five clinical trials.”
What is a Major Revision Disguised as Rejection?