Portrait of Yousef Kotp

Yousef Kotp

yousef.kotp@mila.quebec
Master's Research - Concordia University
Supervisor
Chris Pal
Co-supervisor
Mahdi Hosseini
Research Topics
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Medical Imaging
Multimodal Learning
Natural Language Processing
Representation Learning
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Publications

MOOZY: A Patient-First Foundation Model for Computational Pathology
Yousef Kotp
Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh
Christopher Pal
Mahdi S. Hosseini
Computational pathology needs whole-slide image (WSI) foundation models that transfer across diverse clinical tasks, yet current approaches … (see more)remain largely slide-centric, often depend on private data and expensive paired-report supervision, and do not explicitly model relationships among multiple slides from the same patient. We present MOOZY, a patient-first pathology foundation model in which the patient case, not the individual slide, is the core unit of representation. MOOZY explicitly models dependencies across all slides from the same patient via a case transformer during pretraining, combining multi-stage self-supervision with scaled low-cost task supervision. In Stage 1, we pretrain a vision-only slide encoder on 77,134 public slide feature grids using masked self-distillation. In Stage 2, we align these representations with clinical semantics using a case transformer and multi-task supervision over 333 tasks from 56 public datasets, including 205 classification and 128 survival tasks across four endpoints. Across sixteen held-out tasks, MOOZY improves macro weighted F1, balanced accuracy, and macro weighted ROC-AUC relative to PRISM by +4.19\%, +7.93\%, and +6.95\%, respectively. MOOZY is also parameter efficient with 85.77M parameters, 14
2026-03-26
arXiv (preprint)
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