Yuhao Shen, Zhangtianyi Chen, Yuanhao He, Yan Xu, Shuping Zhang, Liyuan Sun, Zijian Wang, Yinghao Zhu, Yuyuan Yang, Jiahe Qian, Ziwen Wang, Xinyuan Zhang, Wenbin Liu, Zongyuan Ge, Tao Lu, Siyuan Yan, Juexiao Zhou

• Introduce SkinGPT-R1, a dermatology VLM that achieves interpretable and equitable diagnosis across diverse ethnicities by performing explicit, step-by-step, and verifiable diagnostic chain-of-thought reasoning.

Yuhao Shen, Liyuan Sun, Yan Xu, Wenbin Liu, Shuping Zhang, Shawn Afvari, Zhongyi Han, Jiaoyan Song, Yongzhi Ji, Tao Lu, Xiaonan He, Xin Gao, Juexiao Zhou

• Release SkinCaRe, unifying SkinCAP (medical captions) and SkinCoT (clinician-verified chains-of-thought) for transparent dermatologic reasoning.

Yuhao Shen, Jiahe Qian, Shuping Zhang, Zhangtianyi Chen, Tao Lu, Juexiao Zhou

• Propose DermBench (six clinical dimensions) and DermEval (reference-free evaluator) for image–text dermatology reasoning aligned with physician scoring.

Jiahe Qian#, Yuhao Shen#, Zhangtianyi Chen, Juexiao Zhou, Peisong Wang

• Evidence-first test-time training with all backbones frozen; update a small set of continuous soft prompts guided by visual chain-of-thought boxes.