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# Equal Contribution

CVPR 2026 · Under Review
SkinGPT-R1

SkinGPT-R1: Adapter-Only Dual Distillation for Efficient Dermatology Reasoning
Yuhao Shen#, Jiahe Qian#, Zhangtianyi Chen, Yuanhao He, Juexiao Zhou

  • Introduce SkinGPT-R1, a dermatology-focused VLM that performs explicit, step-by-step, verifiable diagnostic chain-of-thought reasoning.
Scientific Data · Under Review
SkinCaRe Dataset

SkinCaRe: A Multimodal Dermatology Dataset Annotated with Medical Caption and Chain-of-Thought Reasoning [Dataset]
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.
ICLR 2026 · Under Review
DermBench & DermEval

Towards Trustworthy Dermatology MLLMs: A Benchmark and Multimodal Evaluator for Diagnostic Narratives
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.
CVPR 2026 · Under Review
CoTBox-TTT

CoTBox-TTT: Grounding Medical VQA with Visual Chain-of-Thought Boxes During Test-time Training
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.