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Publications (14)

eess.IV2025

Combined fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging of tozuleristide in muscle tissue in vitro -- toward optically-guided solid tumor surgery: feasibility studies

Ruibo Shang, Matthew Thompson, Matthew D. Carson +3

Near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) can deliver high-contrast, video-rate, non-contact imaging of tumor-targeted contrast agents with the potential to guide surgeries excising solid…

cs.AI2026

Traj-Evolve: A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System for Patient Trajectory Modeling in Lung Cancer Early Detection

Sihang Zeng, Matthew Thompson, Ruth Etzioni +1

Modeling patient trajectories from longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) requires reasoning over sparse, noisy, and long-context multimodal sequences. Existing LLM-based mu…

cs.CV2025

kabr-tools: Automated Framework for Multi-Species Behavioral Monitoring

Jenna Kline, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Samuel Stevens +13

A comprehensive understanding of animal behavior ecology depends on scalable approaches to quantify and interpret complex, multidimensional behavioral patterns. Traditional field o…

cs.LG2026

The Dual-State Architecture for Reliable LLM Agents

Matthew Thompson

Large Language Models deployed as code generation agents exhibit stochastic behavior incompatible with the deterministic guarantees required by software engineering. We formalize t…

cs.CL2021

Extracting COVID-19 Diagnoses and Symptoms From Clinical Text: A New Annotated Corpus and Neural Event Extraction Framework

Kevin Lybarger, Mari Ostendorf, Matthew Thompson +1

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic. Although much has been learned about the novel coronavirus since its emergence, there are many open questions related to t…

cs.AI2026

Evaluating the Utility of Personal Health Records in Personalized Health AI

Rory Sayres, Kejia Chen, Ayush Jain +19

Patient-managed Personal Health Records (PHRs) promises to empower patients to better understand their health; but information in the record is complex, potentially hindering insig…

cs.AI2026

Traj-CoA: Patient Trajectory Modeling via Chain-of-Agents for Lung Cancer Risk Prediction

Sihang Zeng, Yujuan Fu, Sitong Zhou +6

Large language models (LLMs) offer a generalizable approach for modeling patient trajectories, but suffer from the long and noisy nature of electronic health records (EHR) data in…

cs.LG2026

WavesFM: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Longitudinal Wearable Sensor Waveforms

Peng Cao, Zhijian Yang, Tennison Liu +17

Wearable sensors enable the continuous acquisition of high-resolution physiological waveforms, such as photoplethysmography and accelerometry, under free-living conditions. However…

astro-ph.IM2014

APF - The Lick Observatory Automated Planet Finder

Steven S. Vogt, Matthew Radovan, Robert Kibrick +45

The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is a facility purpose-built for the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets through high-cadence Doppler velocimetry of the reflex ba…

eess.SP2025

UWB Radar-based Heart Rate Monitoring: A Transfer Learning Approach

Elzbieta Gruzewska, Pooja Rao, Sebastien Baur +14

Radar technology presents untapped potential for continuous, contactless, and passive heart rate monitoring via consumer electronics like mobile phones. However the variety of avai…

cs.CV2025

Optimizing Image Capture for Computer Vision-Powered Taxonomic Identification and Trait Recognition of Biodiversity Specimens

Alyson East, Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Luke Meyers +25

1) Biological collections house millions of specimens with digital images increasingly available through open-access platforms. However, most imaging protocols were developed for h…

cs.AI2026

Towards Expert-level Medical AI for Real-time Video Consultations

Mahvish Nagda, Jihyeon Lee, Matthew Thompson +37

Audio-visual interaction is the standard for patient-physician consultations, enabling natural communication and effective assessment of illness through non-verbal cues. While text…

cs.AI2026

SymptomAI: Toward a Conversational AI Agent for Everyday Symptom Assessment

Joseph Breda, Fadi Yousif, Beszel Hawkins +30

Language models excel at diagnostic assessments on curated medical case-studies and vignettes, performing on par with, or better than, clinical professionals. However, existing stu…

cs.CL2026

Dialogue to Question Generation for Evidence-based Medical Guideline Agent Development

Zongliang Ji, Ziyang Zhang, Xincheng Tan +5

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is central to high-quality care, but remains difficult to implement in fast-paced primary care settings. Physicians face short consultations, increasi…