Publications
Selected first- or corresponding-author publications.
* Co-first author · † Corresponding author
For a complete and up-to-date publication list, please see my Google Scholar.
2026
HealthFound: quantitative reasoning over longitudinal health profiles with a large language model
Hongcheng Guo, Lingran Song, Peng Ren, et. al…, Weikang Gong†, Wei Cheng†, Jianfeng Feng†
medRxiv, 2026
Deciphering the genetic architecture and regulatory programs of human brain structure and function
Liu Yang, Yijun Ge, Yueting Deng, Yan Fu, et. al…., Ying Mao†, Wei Cheng†, Fan Mei†, Weikang Gong†, Jintai Yu†
Under review, 2026
Whole-genome sequencing reveals the genetic architecture of the human brain structural connectome
Yan Fu, Shitong Xiang, Liu Yang, Bangsheng Wu, et. al, Wei Cheng†, Weikang Gong†, Jintai Yu†
Under review, 2026
OmicFormer: a statistical priors-informed transformer for accurate and generalizable omics prediction of diseases and complex traits
Hanlin Jiang, Chang Yang, Menghan Qin, Jia You, Jianfeng Feng, Jin-Tai Yu, Wei Cheng†, Weikang Gong†
medRxiv, 2026
Preprint
Rare-variant risk scores complement common-variant polygenic scores for disease risk prediction and stratification
Menghan Qin, Bangsheng Wu, Liu Yang, Wei Cheng, Jianfeng Feng, Jintai Yu, Tian Ge†, Weikang Gong†
medRxiv, 2026
Preprint
A foundation model for efficient and assumption-free characterization of brain microstructure from diffusion MRI
Weikang Gong†, Ziyu Li, Yan Fu, Michiel Cottaar, Wenchuan Wu, Jianfeng Feng, Saad Jbabdi, Christian F. Beckmann, Stephen M. Smith
Under review, 2026
Preprint
2025
A foundation model for mapping the phenomic and genetic landscape of cerebral small vessel disease biomarkers
Weikang Gong†, Fang Lan, Peng Ren, Hao Hu, Wenjing Su, et al.
medRxiv, 2025
Preprint
GenBrain: A Generative Foundation Model of Multimodal Brain Imaging
Chang Yang, Jianfeng Feng, Christian F. Beckmann, Stephen M. Smith, Weikang Gong†
medRxiv, 2025
Preprint
2024
Individualised prediction of longitudinal change in multimodal brain imaging
Weikang Gong†, Christian F. Beckmann, Stephen M. Smith
Imaging Neuroscience, 2024, 2, 1–19
Paper
Whole-exome sequencing identifies protein-coding variants associated with brain iron in 29,828 individuals
Weikang Gong*†, Yan Fu*, Bang-Sheng Wu, Jingnan Du, Liu Yang, Ya-Ru Zhang, Shi-Dong Chen, et al.
Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 5540
Paper
2023
Supervised Phenotype Discovery From Multimodal Brain Imaging
Weikang Gong, Song Bai, Ying-Qiu Zheng, Stephen M. Smith, Christian F. Beckmann
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42(3), 834–849
Paper
2022
Association between parental age, brain structure, and behavioral and cognitive problems in children
Jingnan Du*, Edmund T. Rolls*, Weikang Gong*, et al.
Molecular Psychiatry, 2022, 27(2), 967–975
2021
Brain structure is linked to the association between family environment and behavioral problems in children in the ABCD study
Weikang Gong*, Edmund T. Rolls*, Jingnan Du*, et al.
Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 3769
Paper
Phenotype discovery from population brain imaging
Weikang Gong, Christian F. Beckmann, Stephen M. Smith
Medical Image Analysis, 2021, 71, 102050
Paper
Optimising a Simple Fully Convolutional Network for Accurate Brain Age Prediction in the PAC 2019 Challenge
Weikang Gong, Christian F. Beckmann, Andrea Vedaldi, Stephen M. Smith, Han Peng
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021, 12, 627996
Paper
Accurate brain age prediction with lightweight deep neural networks
Han Peng*, Weikang Gong*, Christian F. Beckmann, Andrea Vedaldi, Stephen M. Smith
Medical Image Analysis, 2021, 68, 101871
Paper
Sleep duration, brain structure, and psychiatric and cognitive problems in children
Wei Cheng*, Edmund T. Rolls*, Weikang Gong*, et al.
Molecular Psychiatry, 2021, 26(8), 3992–4003
2019
A powerful and efficient multivariate approach for voxel-level connectome-wide association studies
Weikang Gong, Fan Cheng, Edmund T. Rolls, et al.
NeuroImage, 2019, 188, 628–641
Functional Connectivity of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Depression and in Health
Edmund T. Rolls*, Wei Cheng*, Weikang Gong*, et al.
Cerebral Cortex, 2019, 29(8), 3617–3630
2018
Statistical testing and power analysis for brain-wide association study
Weikang Gong, Lin Wan
Medical Image Analysis, 2018, 47, 15–30
Structured Sparse K-means Clustering via Laplacian Smoothing
Weikang Gong, Renbo Zhao, Stefan Grünewald
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2018, 112, 63–69