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Lei Clifton

Lei Clifton

Position:

Co-PI

COCHE Publications by Author:

A collaborative large language model for drug analysis. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 1-12.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-025-01471-z

Published:
1 September 2025
Hongjian Zhou, Fenglin Liu*, Jinge Wu, Wenjun Zhang, Guowei Huang, Lei Clifton, David Eyre, Haochen Luo, Fengyuan Liu, Kim Branson, Patrick Schwab, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng, Anshul Thakur & David A. Clifton

Aligning, autoencoding and prompting large language models for novel disease reporting. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.47(5),https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3534586

Published:
1 May 2025
Fenglin Liu*, Xian Wu*, Jinfa Huang, Bang Yang, Kim Branson, Patrick Schwab, Lei Clifton, Ping Zhang, Jiebo Luo, Yefeng Zheng, David A. Clifton*

Application of large language models in medicine. Nat Rev Bioeng 3, 445–464 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-025-00279-5

Published:
1 April 2025
Fenglin Liu*, Hongjian Zhou, Boyang Gu, Xinyu Zou, Jinfa Huang, Jinge Wu, Yiru Li, Sam S. Chen, Yining Hua, Peilin Zhou, Junling Liu, Chengfeng Mao, Chenyu You, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng, Lei Clifton, Zheng Li, Jiebo Luo & David A. Clifton

Are Time Series Foundation Models Ready for Vital Sign Forecasting in Healthcare?. In Proceedings of the 4th Machine Learning for Health Symposium (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (Vol. 259, pp. 401-419).https://proceedings.mlr.press/v259/gu25a.html

Published:
1 December 2024
Xiao Gu*, Yu Liu*, Zaineb Mohsin, Jonathan Bedford, Anshul Thakur, Peter Watkinson, Lei Clifton, Tingting Zhu

AutoNet-Generated Deep Layer-Wise Convex Networks for ECG Classification. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3378843

Published:
1 March 2024
Yanting Shen, Lei Lu*, Tingting Zhu, Xinshao Wang*, Lei Clifton, Zhengming Chen, Robert Clarke, and David A. Clifton.

Cardiac health assessment across scenarios and devices using a multimodal foundation model pretrained on data from 1.7 million individuals. [Nature Machine Intelligence, 8(2), 220-233.]

Published:
24 February 2026
Xiao Gu*, Wei Tang, Jinpei Han, Veer Sangha, Fenglin Liu, Shreyank N Gowda, Antonio H Ribeiro, Patrick Schwab, Kim Branson, Lei Clifton, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro, Zhangdaihong Liu*, David A Clifton*

Decoding 2.3 million ECGs: interpretable deep learning for advancing cardiovascular diagnosis and mortality risk stratification. European Heart Journal-Digital Health, 5(3), 247-259. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztae014

Published:
1 February 2024
Lei Lu*, Tingting Zhu*, Antonio H Ribeiro, Lei Clifton, Erying Zhao, Jiandong Zhou, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro, Yuan-Ting Zhang, David A Clifton

DrAgent: Empowering Large Language Models as Medical Agents for Multi-hop Medical Reasoning. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025 (pp. 15656-15668).https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.848

Published:
1 November 2025
Fenglin Liu, Zheng Li, Hongjian Zhou, Qingyu Yin, Jingfeng Yang, Xin Liu, Zhengyang Wang, Xianfeng Tang, Shiyang Li, Xiang He, Ruijie Wang, Bing Yin, Xiao Gu, Lei Clifton, David Clifton*

Dynamic Beat-to-Beat Measurements of Blood Pressure Using Multimodal Physiological Signals and a Hybrid CNN-LSTM Model. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 29(8), 5438-5451.https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2025.3548771

Published:
1 August 2025
Ting Xiang, Yanwei Jin, Zijun Liu, Lei Clifton, David A. Clifton, Yiming Zhang, Quan Zhang, Nan Ji, Yuanting Zhang*

Dysregulated immune proteins in plasma in the UK Biobank predict Multiple Myeloma 12 years before clinical diagnosis. Blood Advances, bloodadvances-2025016120.https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2025016120

Published:
1 August 2025
Joshua Fieggen*, Anshul Thakur, Christopher C. Butler, Karthik Ramasamy, Anjan Thakurta*, David A. Clifton, and Lei Clifton

Exploring the effectiveness of instruction tuning in biomedical language processing. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 103007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2024.103007

Published:
1 November 2024
Omid Rohanian*, Mohammadmahdi Nouriborji, Samaneh Kouchaki, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Lei Clifton, David A. Clifton

Independent external validation of the QRISK3 cardiovascular disease risk prediction model using UK Biobank. Heart. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321231

Published:
1 July 2023
Ruth E Parsons, Xiaonan Liu, Jennifer A Collister, David A Clifton, Benjamin J Cairns, Lei Clifton*

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