# Qianyi Zhang's blog

> Published writing about medical imaging, AI, engineering, and experiments.

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## Writing and projects

- [Anatomical Positional Embedding](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/anatomical-positional-embedding.en.md): English; article. Exploring anatomical positional embedding for medical imaging applications - a novel approach to encoding spatial and anatomical context for improved medical image analysis.

- [CT-to-Report Does NOT Work, Yet](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/ct-2-report.en.md): English; article. It could, just not with current methodologies.

- [GEMeX-ThinkVG](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/gemex-thinkvg.en.md): English; article. Using RL to get the bbox right.

- [O3 Proposes a Radiologist’s Next Questions](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/gpt-o3-virtual-radiologist.en.md): English; article. A text-only prompt elicits targeted inspection proposals; execution and diagnosis remain untested.

- [Green Score](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/green.en.md): English; article. An okay metric for radiology report generation.

- [Zhang Xiangyu's Talk on Multimodality & Reasoning](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/image-reasoning.en.md): English; article. A truly inspirational view on CV -> Multimodality -> Reasoning

- [Medical Imaging Modalities](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/medical-imaging-modality.en.md): English; article. An overview of medical imaging modalities

- [Is LLM the Cure for Medical Image Analysis?](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/mia-with-llm.en.md): English; article. If it's the cure, what is the problem?

- [O3 Medical Image Analysis Example](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/o3-medical-image-analysis-example.en.md): English; article. It might be a toy, but it is a futuristic toy.

- [Leveraging Prior Knowledge](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/prior-knowledge.en.md): English; article. the not-so-secret technique to juice more nutrients out of data

- [Reason Like a Radiologist](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/reason-like-radiologist.en.md): English; article. Structured thinking first, writing the report last.

- [Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/sequential-diagnosis.en.md): English; article. An interesting study on longitudinal diagnosis

- [The challenge of medical image analysis](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/the-challenge-of-medical-image-analysis.en.md): English; article. What's unique about medical imaging

- [The two types of uncertainty](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/the-two-types-of-uncertainty.en.md): English; article. Can we solve diagnosis with infinite data and model?

- [Thoughts on data annotation](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/thoughts-on-data-annotation.en.md): English; article. frustrations and challenges, tears and sweat

- [What does cancer look like?](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/what-does-cancer-look-like.en.md): English; article. An intuition about what cancer looks like in medical imaging.

- [数据标注的思考](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/thoughts-on-data-annotation.cn.md): Chinese; article. 挫折与挑战，泪水与汗水

- [张翔宇关于多模态与推理的演讲](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/text/image-reasoning.cn.md): Chinese; article. 关于计算机视觉 -> 多模态 -> 推理的真正启发性观点

- [图像证据模糊时，智能体应该怎么办？](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/cn/future/ambiguous-image-evidence): Chinese; topic. 探讨不确定性、进一步观察，以及何时应该保留判断。

- [从有用的医疗影像演示到可靠的工作流程，还缺什么？](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/cn/future/demo-to-workflow): Chinese; topic. 从成功案例进一步讨论一致性、适用范围与证据。

- [评估智能体时，应该如何看待外部资料检索？](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/cn/future/source-lookup): Chinese; topic. 区分基于输入的推理、借助来源的回答，以及各种结果能说明什么。

- [如何让大模型改善写作，同时保留自己的声音？](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/cn/future/writing-with-llms): Chinese; topic. 探讨原稿、编辑取舍与翻译。

- [模仿强大的象棋老师，什么时候能练出更强的棋手？](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/cn/future/xiangqi-imitation): Chinese; topic. 探讨模仿老师与实际棋力之间的差距。

- [What should an agent do when image evidence is ambiguous?](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/future/ambiguous-image-evidence): English; topic. Examine uncertainty, further inspection, and when to abstain.

- [What changes between a useful medical-image demo and a dependable workflow?](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/future/demo-to-workflow): English; topic. Look beyond a successful example to consistency, scope, and evidence.

- [How should source lookup count when evaluating an agent?](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/future/source-lookup): English; topic. Distinguish reasoning from inputs, source-assisted answers, and what each result supports.

- [How can LLMs improve my writing without replacing my voice?](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/future/writing-with-llms): English; topic. Explore original drafts, editorial choices, and translation.

- [When does copying a strong Xiangqi teacher produce a stronger player?](https://astro-blog-bice-chi.vercel.app/future/xiangqi-imitation): English; topic. Explore the gap between matching a teacher and playing well.