Event Speaker
Chris Burt
Principal Group PM Manager
Microsoft
Sessions
How to Actually Use Foundation Models: From Classification to Agents Learning Lab
Presented by John Garrett, PhD, Richard J. Bruce, MD, Alan B. McMillan, PhD, Chris Burt , Jameson Merkow, PhD, Ivan Tarapov, MSc , Joshua Warner, MD, PhD Jun 10, 2026 | 10:00 AM.
Foundation Models—including Vision-Language Models and Large Language Models—are rapidly reshaping what is possible in medical imaging. Yet many imaging informaticists, researchers, and developers find a disconnect between the promise described in the literature and what can realistically be implemented in clinical and research environments. Questions around practical use, efficient adaptation, and system-level integration remain major…