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Publications (22)

cs.CV2025

Towards Objective Obstetric Ultrasound Assessment: Contrastive Representation Learning for Fetal Movement Detection

Talha Ilyas, Duong Nhu, Allison Thomas +13

Accurate fetal movement (FM) detection is essential for assessing prenatal health, as abnormal movement patterns can indicate underlying complications such as placental dysfunction…

cs.CV2022

Out-of-Distribution Detection for Long-tailed and Fine-grained Skin Lesion Images

Deval Mehta, Yaniv Gal, Adrian Bowling +2

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of automated methods for skin lesion diagnosis and classification. Due to an increasing deployment of such systems in clinics, it ha…

cs.SI2020

#Coronavirus or #Chinesevirus?!: Understanding the negative sentiment reflected in Tweets with racist hashtags across the development of COVID-19

Xin Pei, Deval Mehta

Situated in the global outbreak of COVID-19, our study enriches the discussion concerning the emergent racism and xenophobia on social media. With big data extracted from Twitter,…

eess.IV2024

One Shot GANs for Long Tail Problem in Skin Lesion Dataset using novel content space assessment metric

Kunal Deo, Deval Mehta, Kshitij Jadhav

Long tail problems frequently arise in the medical field, particularly due to the scarcity of medical data for rare conditions. This scarcity often leads to models overfitting on s…

cs.CV2026

NeRD: Neuro-Symbolic Rule Distillation for Efficient Ontology-Grounded Chain-of-Thought in Medical Image Diagnosis

Hongxi Yang, Yiwen Jiang, Siyuan Yan +8

Interpretability is essential for trustworthy medical image diagnosis. However, existing concept-driven interpretable methods have key limitations: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs)…

cs.CV2023

Revamping AI Models in Dermatology: Overcoming Critical Challenges for Enhanced Skin Lesion Diagnosis

Deval Mehta, Brigid Betz-Stablein, Toan D Nguyen +8

The surge in developing deep learning models for diagnosing skin lesions through image analysis is notable, yet their clinical black faces challenges. Current dermatology AI models…

cs.SI2021

Beyond a binary of (non)racist tweets: A four-dimensional categorical detection and analysis of racist and xenophobic opinions on Twitter in early Covid-19

Xin Pei, Deval Mehta

Transcending the binary categorization of racist and xenophobic texts, this research takes cues from social science theories to develop a four dimensional category for racism and x…

cs.CV2025

WISE: Weak-Supervision-Guided Step-by-Step Explanations for Multimodal LLMs in Image Classification

Yiwen Jiang, Deval Mehta, Siyuan Yan +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in visual-textual reasoning, with Multimodal Chain-of-Thought (MCoT) prompting significantly enhancing interpretability.…

cs.CV2025

Harnessing Shared Relations via Multimodal Mixup Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Classification

Raja Kumar, Raghav Singhal, Pranamya Kulkarni +2

Deep multimodal learning has shown remarkable success by leveraging contrastive learning to capture explicit one-to-one relations across modalities. However, real-world data often…

cs.CV2023

TPMIL: Trainable Prototype Enhanced Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification

Litao Yang, Deval Mehta, Sidong Liu +3

Digital pathology based on whole slide images (WSIs) plays a key role in cancer diagnosis and clinical practice. Due to the high resolution of the WSI and the unavailability of pat…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Interpretable Image Classification Through LLM Agents and Conditional Concept Bottleneck Models

Yiwen Jiang, Deval Mehta, Wei Feng +1

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) decompose image classification into a process governed by interpretable, human-readable concepts. Recent advances in CBMs have used Large Language…

cs.CY2022

Multi-dimensional Racism Classification during COVID-19: Stigmatization, Offensiveness, Blame, and Exclusion

Xin Pei, Deval Mehta

Transcending the binary categorization of racist texts, our study takes cues from social science theories to develop a multi-dimensional model for racism detection, namely stigmati…

cs.CV2026

A Neurosymbolic Framework for Interpretable Skeleton-Based Seizure Detection via Concept-Driven Logical Reasoning

Talha Ilyas, Deval Mehta, Zongyuan Ge

Video-based seizure detection is essential for the management of epilepsy patients, offering a non-invasive complement to electroencephalography. While several deep learning approa…

cs.CV2026

Neurosymbolic Framework for Concept-Driven Logical Reasoning in Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition

Talha Ilyas, Deval Mehta, Zongyuan Ge

Skeleton-based human activity recognition has achieved strong empirical performance, yet most existing models remain black boxes and difficult to interpret. In this work, we introd…

cs.CV2021

Towards Automated and Marker-less Parkinson Disease Assessment: Predicting UPDRS Scores using Sit-stand videos

Deval Mehta, Umar Asif, Tian Hao +4

This paper presents a novel deep learning enabled, video based analysis framework for assessing the Unified Parkinsons Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) that can be used in the clinic o…

cs.AI2023

Privacy-preserving Early Detection of Epileptic Seizures in Videos

Deval Mehta, Shobi Sivathamboo, Hugh Simpson +3

In this work, we contribute towards the development of video-based epileptic seizure classification by introducing a novel framework (SETR-PKD), which could achieve privacy-preserv…

cs.LG2024

Adaptive Transformer Modelling of Density Function for Nonparametric Survival Analysis

Xin Zhang, Deval Mehta, Yanan Hu +8

Survival analysis holds a crucial role across diverse disciplines, such as economics, engineering and healthcare. It empowers researchers to analyze both time-invariant and time-va…

cs.CV2024

IMPROVE: Improving Medical Plausibility without Reliance on HumanValidation -- An Enhanced Prototype-Guided Diffusion Framework

Anurag Shandilya, Swapnil Bhat, Akshat Gautam +4

Generative models have proven to be very effective in generating synthetic medical images and find applications in downstream tasks such as enhancing rare disease datasets, long-ta…

cs.CV2026

Clinically Aligned Geometry Constraints for Robust IVUS Vessel Boundary Segmentation

Yunshu Chen, Litao Yang, Giuseppe Di Giovanni +9

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) lumen and external elastic membrane (EEM) segmentation is important for quantitative coronary plaque burden assessment. Errors in lumen or EEM delin…

eess.IV2022

Leukocyte Classification using Multimodal Architecture Enhanced by Knowledge Distillation

Litao Yang, Deval Mehta, Dwarikanath Mahapatra +1

Recently, a lot of automated white blood cells (WBC) or leukocyte classification techniques have been developed. However, all of these methods only utilize a single modality micros…

cs.CV2021

DeepActsNet: Spatial and Motion features from Face, Hands, and Body Combined with Convolutional and Graph Networks for Improved Action Recognition

Umar Asif, Deval Mehta, Stefan von Cavallar +2

Existing action recognition methods mainly focus on joint and bone information in human body skeleton data due to its robustness to complex backgrounds and dynamic characteristics…

eess.IV2025

Interpretable Few-Shot Retinal Disease Diagnosis with Concept-Guided Prompting of Vision-Language Models

Deval Mehta, Yiwen Jiang, Catherine L Jan +3

Recent advancements in deep learning have shown significant potential for classifying retinal diseases using color fundus images. However, existing works predominantly rely exclusi…