Publications of Judith Lefkes

2026

Preprints

  1. M. Stegeman, L. Philipp, F. van der Graaf, M. D'Amato, C. Grisi, L. Builtjes, J.S. Bosma, J. Lefkes, R. Weber, J. Meakin, T. Koopman, A. Mickan, M. Prokop, E. Smit, G. Litjens, J. van der Laak, B. van Ginneken, M. de Rooij, H. Huisman, C. Jacobs, F. Ciompi and A. Hering, "Designing UNICORN: a Unified Benchmark for Imaging in Computational Pathology, Radiology, and Natural Language", arXiv:2603.02790, 2026.
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2025

Papers in international journals

  1. M. Tran, P. Schmidle, R. Guo, S. Wagner, V. Koch, V. Lupperger, B. Novotny, D. Murphree, H. Hardway, M. D'Amato, J. Lefkes, D. Geijs, A. Feuchtinger, A. Böhner, R. Kaczmarczyk, T. Biedermann, A. Amir, A. Mooyaart, F. Ciompi, G. Litjens, C. Wang, N. Comfere, K. Eyerich, S. Braun, C. Marr and T. Peng, "Generating dermatopathology reports from gigapixel whole slide images with HistoGPT", Nature Communications, 2025;16.
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  2. J.S. Bosma, K. Dercksen, L. Builtjes, R. André, C. Roest, S. Fransen, C. Noordman, M. Navarro-Padilla, J. Lefkes, N. Alves, M. de Grauw, L. van Eekelen, J. Spronck, M. Schuurmans, B. de Wilde, W. Hendrix, W. Aswolinskiy, A. Saha, J. Twilt, D. Geijs, J. Veltman, D. Yakar, M. de Rooij, F. Ciompi, A. Hering, J. Geerdink, H. Huisman, O. behalf of the consortium, M. de Grauw, L. van Eekelen, B. de Wilde, Q. van Lohuizen, M. Stegeman, K. Rutten, I. Smit, G. Stultiens, C. Overduin, M. Rutten, E. Scholten, R. van der Post, K. Grünberg, S. Vos, E. Taken, I. Nagtegaal, A. Mickan, M. Groeneveld, P. Gerke, J. Meakin, M. Looijen-Salamon, T. de Haas, F. Hoitsma, M. D'Amato and M. de Rooij, "The DRAGON benchmark for clinical NLP", npj Digital Medicine, 2025;8.
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Papers in conference proceedings

  1. J. Lefkes, M. D'Amato, S. Sun, G. Litjens and F. Ciompi, "Large Language Models Automate Diagnostic Conclusions Generation from Microscopic Descriptions in Multiple Cancer Types", Laboratory Investigation, 2025;105:103608.
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  2. J. Lefkes, C. Grisi and G. Litjens, "A Balancing Act: Optimizing Classification and Retrieval in Cross-Modal Vision Models", Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2025.
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