Synthetic data boosts medical foundation models

Bin Sheng^{1

2}, Pearse A Keane^{3

4}, Yih-Chung Tham^{5

6

7}, Tien Yin Wong^{8

9

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
² MOE Key Laboratory of AI, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
³ NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.
⁴ Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
⁶ Center for Innovation and Precision Eye Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁸ Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore. wongtienyin@tsinghua.edu.cn.
⁹ School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. wongtienyin@tsinghua.edu.cn.
¹⁰ Beijing Visual Science and Translational Eye Research Institute, Beijing, China. wongtienyin@tsinghua.edu.cn.

Bin Sheng et al. Nat Biomed Eng. 2025 Apr.

. 2025 Apr;9(4):443-444.

doi: 10.1038/s41551-025-01375-y.

Bin Sheng^{1

2}, Pearse A Keane^{3

4}, Yih-Chung Tham^{5

6

7}, Tien Yin Wong^{8

9

10}

¹ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
² MOE Key Laboratory of AI, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
³ NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.
⁴ Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
⁶ Center for Innovation and Precision Eye Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁸ Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore. wongtienyin@tsinghua.edu.cn.
⁹ School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. wongtienyin@tsinghua.edu.cn.
¹⁰ Beijing Visual Science and Translational Eye Research Institute, Beijing, China. wongtienyin@tsinghua.edu.cn.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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