KDD'26 Oral | FetalMind: Epistemic-aware Vision–Language Foundation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Interpretation
Xiao He*,1, Huangxuan Zhao*,†,1, Guojia Wan1, Jiancheng Pan2, Yanxing Liu3
Xin Zou4, Yong Luo5, Yongchao Xu5, Juhua Liu1, Wei Zhou6, Dacheng Tao7, Bo Du†,1
1 Wuhan University;
2 Tsinghua University;
3 University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;
4 HKUST (Guangzhou);
5 Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University;
6 Wuhan Supercomputing Center;
7 Nanyang Technological University
* *Equal contribution*
† *Corresponding author*
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## News
- [2026/07] Our FetalMind won the Best Paper Award 🏆 (AI4Science Track).
- [2026/05/17] Our FetalMind is accepted by KDD 2026 (Oral, CCF-A). Congrats to our team!
- [2025/12/20] We are enhancing the security of the model, which will be uploaded to Hugging Face at this time.
- [2025/12/20] We are enhancing the security of the model, which will be uploaded to Hugging Face at this time.
- [2025/10/16] The paper and project report have been released.
- [2025/10/15] We are actively working to obtain the necessary approvals for dataset release and plan to make a partially de-identified version publicly available after the paper is accepted.
## Open Source
The implementation of **FetalMind**, our deconfounded multimodal AI system for fetal ultrasound interpretation, is available on GitHub.
## Abstract
A fetal vision–language foundation model, **FetalMind**, pretrained on multi-center fetal ultrasound data, integrating structured clinical knowledge and reinforcement learning for report generation and diagnostic reasoning across diverse gestational stages.
## Statement
### Acknowledgement
Sincerely thank [Jiancheng Pan](https://jianchengpan.space/) and [Yanxing Liu](https://yanxingliu.github.io/) for their valuable contributions and support to this project.
### Citation
If you are interested in the following work or want to use our dataset, please cite the following paper.
```
@misc{he2025fetalmind,
title={Epistemic-aware Vision-Language Foundation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Interpretation},
author={Xiao He, Huangxuan Zhao, Guojia Wan, Jiancheng Pan, Yanxing Liu, Xin Zou, Yong Luo, Yongchao Xu, Juhua Liu, Wei Zhou, Dacheng Tao, Bo Du},
year={2025},
eprint={2505.12953},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12953},
}
```