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Published on in Vol 14 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/105860, first published .
Young person's face with facial feature analysis and DNA helix graphic

Diagnosing Rare Genetic Diseases From Facial Images Using Visual Prompting With Multimodal Large Language Models: Diagnostic Accuracy Study

Diagnosing Rare Genetic Diseases From Facial Images Using Visual Prompting With Multimodal Large Language Models: Diagnostic Accuracy Study

Jie Song   1 , PhD ;   Zhichuan Xu   1 , BS ;   Meng Xiao   1 , BS ;   Cheng Bi   1 , PhD ;   Yuxin Zhang   1 , PhD ;   Xin Zheng   1 , PhD ;   Xiaoran Li   1 , BS ;   Ziyu Lu   1 , BS ;   Qiongfang Cao   1 , PhD ;   Bairong Shen   1 , PhD

1 Department of Dermatovenereology and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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  • Bairong Shen, PhD
  • Department of Dermatovenereology and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular
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