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Vu Minh Hieu Phan

Affiliate research fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and technical co-lead in AI Bench to Bedside, the Verjans Liao Lab, now also working with Google. Multimodal large language models, vision-language modelling and foundation models for medical image analysis.

Affiliate research fellow, AIML · Google

PhD from the University of Wollongong on knowledge distillation and continual learning, then a postdoctoral researcher in the group. First author of the group's CVPR 2024 pathology-detection paper and senior author on its CVPR 2025, ICCV 2025 and IJCAI 2025 work on medical vision-language models. Supervisor to two of the group's doctoral researchers.

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Selected papers

Beyond the Global Scores: Fine-Grained Token Grounding as a Robust Detector of LVLM Hallucinations Nguyen TD, Ho MK, Chen Q, Xie Y, Nguyen C-T, Nguyen MK, Nguyen DHP, van den Hengel A, Verjans JW, Nguyen PL, Phan VMH CVPR 2026 · supervising author

Seeing the Trees for the Forest: Rethinking Weakly-supervised Medical Visual Grounding Huy TD, Huynh DA, Xie Y, Qi Y, Chen Q, … Liao Z, To M-S, Verjans JW, Phan VMH ICCV, Highlight 2025 · supervising author · 9 citations

Interactive Medical Image Analysis with Concept-Based Similarity Reasoning Huy TD, Tran SK, Nguyen P, Tran NH, Sam TB, van den Hengel A, Liao Z, Verjans JW, To M-S, Phan VMH CVPR 2025 · supervising author · 16 citations

Localizing Before Answering: A Benchmark for Grounded Medical Visual Question Answering Nguyen D, Ho MK, Ta H, Nguyen TT, Chen Q, … Liao Z, To M-S, Verjans J, Nguyen PL, Phan VMH IJCAI 2025 · 29 citations

Decomposing Disease Descriptions for Enhanced Pathology Detection: A Multi-Aspect Vision-Language Pre-training Framework Phan VMH, Xie Y, Qi Y, Liu L, Liu L, Zhang B, Liao Z, Wu Q, To M-S, Verjans JW CVPR 2024 · senior author · 61 citations

Structural Attention: Rethinking Transformer for Unpaired Medical Image Synthesis Phan VMH, Xie Y, Zhang B, Qi Y, Liao Z, Perperidis A, Phung SL, Verjans JW, To M-S MICCAI 2024 · supervising author · 45 citations

Class Similarity Weighted Knowledge Distillation for Continual Semantic Segmentation Phan VMH, Ta T-A, Phung SL, Tran-Thanh L, Bouzerdoum A CVPR 2022 · 105 citations

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