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Multimodal, Multi-Disease Medical Imaging Foundation Model (MerMED-FM)
Yang Zhou, Chrystie Wan Ning Quek, Jun Zhou, Yan Wang, Yang Bai, Yuhe Ke, Jie Yao, Laura Gutierrez, Zhen Ling Teo, Darren Shu Jeng Ting, Brian T. Soetikno, Christopher S. Nielsen, Tobias Elze, Zengxiang Li, Linh Le Dinh, Lionel Tim-Ee Cheng, Tran Nguyen Tuan Anh, Chee Leong Cheng, Tien Yin Wong, Nan Liu, Iain Beehuat Tan, Tony Kiat Hon Lim, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Yong Liu, Daniel Shu Wei Ting

Multimodal, Multi-Disease Medical Imaging Foundation Model (MerMED-FM)
Current artificial intelligence models for medical imaging are predominantly single modality and single disease. Attempts to create multimodal and multi-disease models have resulted in inconsistent clinical accuracy. Furthermore, training these models typically requires large, labour-intensive, well-labelled datasets. We developed MerMED-FM, a state-of-the-art multimodal, multi-specialty foundation model trained using self-supervised learning and a memory module. MerMED-FM was trained on 3.3 mi…

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Fermion Masses and Mixing in String-Inspired Models
We study a class of supersymmetric Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) models with multiple U(1) symmetries and Standard Model (SM) singlets inspired by heterotic string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds. The string-theoretic origin imposes a particular charge pattern on the SM fields and FN singlets, dividing the latter into perturbative and non-perturbative types. Employing systematic and heuristic search strategies, such as genetic algorithms, we identify charge assignments and singlet VEVs that …

Calamus 13 "Calamus taste"
A celebration of nature in March, an entreaty to enjoy and nurture growth. Both botanical and metaphorical, our personal growth. Some lovely turns of phrase:
Gushes from the throats of birds
Frost-mellowed berries
But I'm here for the gay reading. The erotic is latent in all this burgeoning spring. But it's also more explicit. That first line "Calamus taste" sure is promising if we understand Calamus as a phallic symbol. Then there's the "pinks of love", the "young persons wandering out in the fields", the "love-buds".
It's not porny or anything but it's a little horny. The physical exuberance of springtime.
This poem got edited heavily down in later versions, and perhaps it needed it. But he eliminated one of my favorite lines, "I must change the strain". Gonna drop that in conversation next time I need to change the topic.

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
Michael S{\o}rensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14389 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14…

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
This paper reviews Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen's research in the first decades of his career. The focus is on topics that he kept returning to throughout his scientific life, and on papers that he built on in later important contributions. First his early contributions to the foundations of statistical inference are reviewed with focus on conditional inference and exponential families, two topics in which he had a lifelong interest. The second half of the paper reviews his research on wind blow…