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These pages contain links to various tools and resources created by the staff and students associated with the two Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Centres for Doctoral Training funded by UKRI at the University of Edinburgh.

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Resources from Research Projects

  1. Kobiela, M., Oyarzún, D. A., & Gutmann, M. U. (2026). Risk-averse optimization of genetic circuits under uncertainty. Cell Systems, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2025.101476
  2. Phillips, D., Leimkuhler, B., & Matthews, C. (2025). Numerics with coordinate transforms for efficient Brownian dynamics simulations. Molecular Physics, 123(7-8), e2347546. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2024.2347546
  3. Davyson, E., Shen, X., Huider, F., Adams, M. J., Borges, K., McCartney, D. L., Barker, L. F., van Dongen, J., Boomsma, D. I., Weihs, A., Grabe, H. J., Kühn, L., Teumer, A., Völzke, H., Zhu, T., Kaprio, J., Ollikainen, M., David, F. S., Meinert, S., … McIntosh, A. M. (2025). Insights from a methylome-wide association study of antidepressant exposure. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1908. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55356-x
  4. Dutt, R., Sanchez, P., Yao, Y., McDonagh, S., Tsaftaris, S. A., & Hospedales, T. (2026). CheXGenBench: A Unified Benchmark For Fidelity, Privacy and Utility of Synthetic Chest Radiographs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10496
  5. Philps, B., del C. Valdés Hernández, M., Qin, C., Clancy, U., Sakka, E., Muñoz Maniega, S., Bastin, M. E., Jochems, A. C. C., Wardlaw, J. M., & Bernabeu, M. O. (2025). Uncertainty quantification for White Matter Hyperintensity segmentation detects silent failures and improves automated Fazekas quantification. Medical Image Analysis, 105, 103697. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2025.103697
  6. Kamp, S., Stracquadanio, G., & Simpson, T. I. (2025). GNN-Suite: a Graph Neural Network Benchmarking Framework for Biomedical Informatics. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2505.10711. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.10711
  7. Gasser, H.-C., Oyarzún, D. A., Alfaro, J. A., & Rajan, A. (2025). Tuning ProteinMPNN to reduce protein visibility via MHC Class I through direct preference optimization. Protein Engineering, Design and Selection, 38, gzaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/protein/gzaf003
  8. Walker, T., Esposito, S., Rebain, D., Vaxman, A., Onken, A., Li, C., & Mac Aodha, O. (2025). CrossSDF: 3D Reconstruction of Thin Structures From Cross-Sections. Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 30928–30937.
  9. Dutt, R. (2025). The Devil is in the Prompts: De-Identification Traces Enhance Memorization Risks in Synthetic Chest X-Ray Generation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07516
  10. Wang, K., & Cohen, S. B. (2025). DEPfold: RNA Secondary Structure Prediction as Dependency Parsing. International Conference on Representation Learning, 2025, 9800–9821. https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/file/1ad84bf5a6711cb9541c8976617cc00f-Paper-Conference.pdf
  11. Zong, Y., Bohdal, O., & Hospedales, T. (2025). VL-ICL Bench: The Devil in the Details of Multimodal In-Context Learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13164
  12. Ryan, B., Marioni, R. E., & Simpson, T. I. (2024). Multi-Omic Graph Diagnosis (MOGDx): a data integration tool to perform classification tasks for heterogeneous diseases. Bioinformatics, 40(9), btae523. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae523
  13. Gorantla, R., Gema, A. P., Yang, I. X., Serrano-Morrás, Á., Suutari, B., Juárez-Jiménez, J., & Mey, A. S. J. S. (2025). Learning Binding Affinities via Fine-Tuning of Protein and Ligand Language Models. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 65(22), 12279–12291. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.5c02063
  14. Corponi, F., Li, B. M., Anmella, G., Valenzuela-Pascual, C., Pacchiarotti, I., Valentí, M., Grande, I., Benabarre, A., Garriga, M., Vieta, E., Lawrie, S. M., Whalley, H. C., Hidalgo-Mazzei, D., & Vergari, A. (2024). A Bayesian analysis of heart rate variability changes over acute episodes of bipolar disorder. Npj Mental Health Research, 3(1), 44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-024-00090-x
  15. Goldsborough, T., Philps, B., O’Callaghan, A., Inglis, F., Leplat, L., Filby, A., Bilen, H., & Bankhead, P. (2024). InstanSeg: an embedding-based instance segmentation algorithm optimized for accurate, efficient and portable cell segmentation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15954
  16. Dabrowski, J. K., Yang, E. J., Crofts, S. J. C., Hillary, R. F., Simpson, D. J., McCartney, D. L., Marioni, R. E., Kirschner, K., Latorre-Crespo, E., & Chandra, T. (2024). Probabilistic inference of epigenetic age acceleration from cellular dynamics. Nature Aging, 4(10), 1493–1507. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00700-5
  17. Yao, Y., & Chen, W. (2024). Quantifying Knee Cartilage Shape and Lesion: From Image to Metrics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07361
  18. Gema, A. P., Lee, C., Minervini, P., Daines, L., Simpson, T. I., & Alex, B. (2024). Edinburgh Clinical NLP at MEDIQA-CORR 2024: Guiding Large Language Models with Hints. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18028
  19. Corponi, F., Li, B. M., Anmella, G., Valenzuela-Pascual, C., Mas, A., Pacchiarotti, I., Valentí, M., Grande, I., Benabarre, A., Garriga, M., Vieta, E., Young, A. H., Lawrie, S. M., Whalley, H. C., Hidalgo-Mazzei, D., & Vergari, A. (2024). Wearable Data From Subjects Playing Super Mario, Taking University Exams, or Performing Physical Exercise Help Detect Acute Mood Disorder Episodes via Self-Supervised Learning: Prospective, Exploratory, Observational Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 12, e55094. https://doi.org/10.2196/55094
  20. Falis, M., Gema, A. P., Dong, H., Daines, L., Basetti, S., Holder, M., Penfold, R. S., Birch, A., & Alex, B. (2024). Can GPT-3.5 generate and code discharge summaries? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 31(10), 2284–2293. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae132
  21. Zong, Y., Yu, T., Chavhan, R., Zhao, B., & Hospedales, T. (2024). Fool Your (Vision and) Language Model With Embarrassingly Simple Permutations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01651
  22. Zong, Y., Bohdal, O., Yu, T., Yang, Y., & Hospedales, T. (2024). Safety Fine-Tuning at (Almost) No Cost: A Baseline for Vision Large Language Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02207
  23. Philps, B., del C. Valdes Hernandez, M., Munoz Maniega, S., Bastin, M. E., Sakka, E., Clancy, U., Wardlaw, J. M., & Bernabeu, M. O. (2024). Stochastic Uncertainty Quantification Techniques Fail to Account for Inter-analyst Variability in White Matter Hyperintensity Segmentation. Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 34–53.
  24. Gasser, H.-C., Oyarzún, D. A., Rajan, A., & Alfaro, J. A. (2024). Guiding a language-model based protein design method towards MHC Class-I immune-visibility targets in vaccines and therapeutics. ImmunoInformatics, 14, 100035. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuno.2024.100035
  25. Esposito, S., Xu, Q., Kania, K., Hewitt, C., Mariotti, O., Petikam, L., Valentin, J., Onken, A., & Mac Aodha, O. (2024). GeoGen: Geometry-Aware Generative Modeling via Signed Distance Functions. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 7479–7488.
  26. Gorantla, R., Kubincová, A., Suutari, B., Cossins, B. P., & Mey, A. S. J. S. (2024). Benchmarking Active Learning Protocols for Ligand-Binding Affinity Prediction. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 64(6), 1955–1965. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00220
  27. Dutt, R., Bohdal, O., Tsaftaris, S. A., & Hospedales, T. (2024). FairTune: Optimizing Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning for Fairness in Medical Image Analysis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05055
  28. Gema, A. P., Minervini, P., Daines, L., Hope, T., & Alex, B. (2024). Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLaMA for the Clinical Domain. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03042
  29. Castorina, L. V., Petrenas, R., Subr, K., & Wood, C. W. (2023). PDBench: Evaluating Computational Methods for Protein-Sequence Design. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btad027
  30. Merzbacher, C., Ryan, B., Goldsborough, T., Hillary, R. F., Campbell, A., Murphy, L., McIntosh, A. M., Liewald, D., Harris, S. E., McRae, A. F., Cox, S. R., Cannings, T. I., Vallejos, C. A., McCartney, D. L., & Marioni, R. E. (2023). Integration of datasets for individual prediction of DNA methylation-based biomarkers. Genome Biology, 24(1), 278. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-03114-5
  31. Gema, A. P., Grabarczyk, D., Wulf, W. D., Borole, P., Alfaro, J. A., Minervini, P., Vergari, A., & Rajan, A. (2023). Knowledge Graph Embeddings in the Biomedical Domain: Are They Useful? A Look at Link Prediction, Rule Learning, and Downstream Polypharmacy Tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19979
  32. Gema, A. P., Kobiela, M., Fraisse, A., Rajan, A., Oyarzún, D. A., & Alfaro, J. A. (2023). Vaxformer: Antigenicity-controlled Transformer for Vaccine Design Against SARS-CoV-2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11194
  33. Zong, Y., Yang, Y., & Hospedales, T. (2023). MEDFAIR: Benchmarking Fairness for Medical Imaging. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01725
  34. Engelmann, J., Villaplana-Velasco, A., Storkey, A., & Bernabeu, M. O. (2022). Robust and Efficient Computation of Retinal Fractal Dimension Through Deep Approximation. Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, 84–93.
  35. Li, B. M., Castorina, L. V., Valdés Hernández, M. del C., Clancy, U., Wiseman, S. J., Sakka, E., Storkey, A. J., Jaime Garcia, D., Cheng, Y., Doubal, F., Thrippleton, M. T., Stringer, M., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2022). Deep attention super-resolution of brain magnetic resonance images acquired under clinical protocols. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Volume 16 - 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2022.887633
  36. Phillips, D., Gasser, H.-C., Kamp, S., Pałkowski, A., Rabalski, L., Oyarzún, D. A., Rajan, A., & Alfaro, J. A. (2022). Generating Immune-aware SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins for Universal Vaccine Design. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Healthcare AI and COVID-19, ICML 2022, 184, 100–116. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v184/phillips22a.html
  37. Engelmann, J., McTrusty, A. D., MacCormick, I. J. C., Pead, E., Storkey, A., & Bernabeu, M. O. (2022). Detecting multiple retinal diseases in ultra-widefield fundus imaging and data-driven identification of informative regions with deep learning. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(12), 1143–1154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00566-5
  38. Falis, M., Dong, H., Birch, A., & Alex, B. (2021). CoPHE: A Count-Preserving Hierarchical Evaluation Metric in Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 907–912. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.69
  39. Stam, M. J., & Wood, C. W. (2021). DE-STRESS: a user-friendly web application for the evaluation of protein designs. Protein Engineering, Design and Selection, 34, gzab029. https://doi.org/10.1093/protein/gzab029
  40. Gasser, H.-C., Bedran, G., Ren, B., Goodlett, D., Alfaro, J., & Rajan, A. (2021). Interpreting BERT architecture predictions for peptide presentation by MHC class I proteins. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07137