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Publications (10)

eess.IV2024

Using generative AI to investigate medical imagery models and datasets

Oran Lang, Doron Yaya-Stupp, Ilana Traynis +13

AI models have shown promise in many medical imaging tasks. However, our ability to explain what signals these models have learned is severely lacking. Explanations are needed in o…

cs.CY2024

Interdisciplinary Expertise to Advance Equitable Explainable AI

Chloe R. Bennett, Heather Cole-Lewis, Stephanie Farquhar +8

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly influencing health and healthcare, but bias and poor performance persists for populations who face widespread structural oppres…

eess.IV2022

Discovering novel systemic biomarkers in photos of the external eye

Boris Babenko, Ilana Traynis, Christina Chen +16

External eye photos were recently shown to reveal signs of diabetic retinal disease and elevated HbA1c. In this paper, we evaluate if external eye photos contain information about…

stat.ML2017

Poverty Mapping Using Convolutional Neural Networks Trained on High and Medium Resolution Satellite Images, With an Application in Mexico

Boris Babenko, Jonathan Hersh, David Newhouse +2

Mapping the spatial distribution of poverty in developing countries remains an important and costly challenge. These "poverty maps" are key inputs for poverty targeting, public goo…

cs.CV2022

Robust and Efficient Medical Imaging with Self-Supervision

Shekoofeh Azizi, Laura Culp, Jan Freyberg +31

Recent progress in Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) has delivered systems that can reach clinical expert level performance. However, such systems tend to demonstrate sub-optima…

cs.LG2025

An Operational Deep Learning System for Satellite-Based High-Resolution Global Nowcasting

Shreya Agrawal, Mohammed Alewi Hassen, Emmanuel Asiedu Brempong +16

Precipitation nowcasting, which predicts rainfall up to a few hours ahead, is a critical tool for vulnerable communities in the Global South frequently exposed to intense, rapidly…

cs.CV2024

PathAlign: A vision-language model for whole slide images in histopathology

Faruk Ahmed, Andrew Sellergren, Lin Yang +14

Microscopic interpretation of histopathology images underlies many important diagnostic and treatment decisions. While advances in vision-language modeling raise new opportunities…

eess.IV2020

Detecting hidden signs of diabetes in external eye photographs

Boris Babenko, Akinori Mitani, Ilana Traynis +10

Diabetes-related retinal conditions can be detected by examining the posterior of the eye. By contrast, examining the anterior of the eye can reveal conditions affecting the front…

cs.CV2019

Predicting Progression of Age-related Macular Degeneration from Fundus Images using Deep Learning

Boris Babenko, Siva Balasubramanian, Katy E. Blumer +5

Background: Patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can avoid vision loss via certain therapy. However, methods to predict the progression to neovascular a…

eess.IV2020

Predicting Risk of Developing Diabetic Retinopathy using Deep Learning

Ashish Bora, Siva Balasubramanian, Boris Babenko +13

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening is instrumental in preventing blindness, but faces a scaling challenge as the number of diabetic patients rises. Risk stratification for the dev…