Sam Bond-Taylor

Senior Researcher at

Microsoft Research Cambridge

About

I am a senior researcher in the Health Futures group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, researching multi-modal modals for medical imaging as a member of the Biomedical Imaging Team. As part of Project MAIRA, some of the papers I have been involved in include RadEdit, an approach for stress-testing biomedical vision models by using diffusion models to edit images; and RAD-DINO, where we studied whether pre-training on multi-modal biomedical data can actually be a hindrance compared to uni-modal methods.

Prior to joining Microsoft I studied for my PhD at Durham University, where I explored how generative imaging models can be efficiently scaled to high resolutions, with papers including $\infty$-Diff and Unleashing Transformers.

Selected Publications

RAD-DINO: Exploring Scalable Medical Image Encoders Beyond Text Supervision

F. Pérez-García, H. Sharma, S. Bond-Taylor, K. Bouzid, V. Salvatelli, M. Ilse, S. Bannur, D.C. Castro, A. Schwaighofer, M.P. Lungren, M. Wetscherek, N. Codella, S.L. Hyland, J. Alvarez-Valle, O. Oktay

RadEdit: stress-testing biomedical vision models via diffusion image editing

F. Pérez-García, S. Bond-Taylor, P.P Sanchez, B. van Breugel, D.C. Castro, H. Sharma, V. Salvatelli, M.T. Wetscherek, H. Richardson, M.P. Lungren, A. Nori, J. Alvarez-Valle, O. Oktay, M. Ilse

MAIRA-2: Grounded Radiology Report Generation

S. Bannur, K. Bouzid, D. Castro, A. Schwaighofer, A. Thieme, S. Bond-Taylor, M. Ilse, F. Pérez-García, V. Salvatelli, H. Sharma, F. Meissen, M. Ranjit, S. Srivastav, J. Gong, N.C.F. Codella, F. Falck, O. Oktay, M.P. Lungren, M.T. Wetscherek, J. Alvarez-Valle, S.L. Hyland

$\infty$-Diff: Infinite Resolution Diffusion with Subsampled Mollified States

S. Bond-Taylor, C. G. Willcocks

Unleashing Transformers: Parallel Token Prediction with Discrete Absorbing Diffusion for Fast High-Resolution Image Generation from Vector-Quantized Codes

S. Bond-Taylor, P. Hessey, H. Sasaki, T. P. Breckon, C. G. Willcocks

Deep Generative Modelling: A Comparative Review of VAEs, GANs, Normalizing Flows, Energy-Based and Autoregressive Models

S. Bond-Taylor, A. Leach, Y. Long, C.G. Willcocks

For a complete list of publications, check out my publications page or my Google Scholar profile.