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20202026
most citedFetal Gender Identification using Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms on Phonocardiogram Signals

9 citations · 16 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CR2026

Vision-Language Model Confidence Is Not a Property of the Answer

Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Ivan Brugere +4

Vision-language models are increasingly deployed behind a confidence gate: the system reads how confident the model is in its answer and defers when confidence is low. This makes t…

cs.CL2026

Confidence Estimation for Financial Vision-Language Models in Chart and Document Understanding

Reza Khanmohammadi, Simerjot Kaur, Charese H. Smiley +2

LVLMs are increasingly used to read financial charts, tables, and documents, where a single misread figure can move a decision and the most authoritative-looking answer is sometime…

cs.CL2026

Calibrated Triage, Not Autonomy: Confidence Estimation for Medical Vision-Language Models

Reza Khanmohammadi, Kundan Thind, Mohammad M. Ghassemi

A vision-language model can answer a question about a chest radiograph or a pathology slide fluently and confidently while barely using the image, relying instead on language prior…

cs.CL2026

Grounded or Guessing? LVLM Confidence Estimation via Blind-Image Contrastive Ranking

Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Simerjot Kaur +4

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) suffer from visual ungroundedness: they can produce a fluent, confident, and even correct response driven entirely by language priors, with the…

cs.AI2025

Automated stereotactic radiosurgery planning using a human-in-the-loop reasoning large language model agent

Humza Nusrat, Luke Francisco, Bing Luo +10

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) demands precise dose shaping around critical structures, yet black-box AI systems have limited clinical adoption due to opacity concerns. We tested…

cs.CL2025

Calibrating LLM Confidence by Probing Perturbed Representation Stability

Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Mehrsa Mardikoraem +5

Miscalibration in Large Language Models (LLMs) undermines their reliability, highlighting the need for accurate confidence estimation. We introduce CCPS (Calibrating LLM Confidence…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

GLoG-CSUnet: Enhancing Vision Transformers with Adaptable Radiomic Features for Medical Image Segmentation

Niloufar Eghbali, Hassan Bagher-Ebadian, Tuka Alhanai +1

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown promise in medical image semantic segmentation (MISS) by capturing long-range correlations. However, ViTs often struggle to model local spatia…

cs.LG2024

Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification in Mechanical Ventilation Treatment: A Conformal Deep Q-Learning Framework

Niloufar Eghbali, Tuka Alhanai, Mohammad M. Ghassemi

Mechanical Ventilation (MV) is a critical life-support intervention in intensive care units (ICUs). However, optimal ventilator settings are challenging to determine because of the…

cs.CL2024

Hybrid Student-Teacher Large Language Model Refinement for Cancer Toxicity Symptom Extraction

Reza Khanmohammadi, Ahmed I. Ghanem, Kyle Verdecchia +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer significant potential for clinical symptom extraction, but their deployment in healthcare settings is constrained by privacy concerns, computatio…

eess.SP2024

An LSTM Feature Imitation Network for Hand Movement Recognition from sEMG Signals

Chuheng Wu, S. Farokh Atashzar, Mohammad M. Ghassemi +1

Surface Electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive signal that is used in the recognition of hand movement patterns, the diagnosis of diseases, and the robust control of prostheses.…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Iterative Prompt Refinement for Radiation Oncology Symptom Extraction Using Teacher-Student Large Language Models

Reza Khanmohammadi, Ahmed I Ghanem, Kyle Verdecchia +7

This study introduces a novel teacher-student architecture utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve prostate cancer radiotherapy symptom extraction from clinical notes. Mi…

cs.LG2024

Temporal Link Prediction Using Graph Embedding Dynamics

Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard, Mohammad Ghassemi

Graphs are a powerful representation tool in machine learning applications, with link prediction being a key task in graph learning. Temporal link prediction in dynamic networks is…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

The Broad Impact of Feature Imitation: Neural Enhancements Across Financial, Speech, and Physiological Domains

Reza Khanmohammadi, Tuka Alhanai, Mohammad M. Ghassemi

Initialization of neural network weights plays a pivotal role in determining their performance. Feature Imitating Networks (FINs) offer a novel strategy by initializing weights to…

eess.IV2023

Feature Imitating Networks Enhance The Performance, Reliability And Speed Of Deep Learning On Biomedical Image Processing Tasks

Shangyang Min, Hassan B. Ebadian, Tuka Alhanai +1

Feature-Imitating-Networks (FINs) are neural networks that are first trained to approximate closed-form statistical features (e.g. Entropy), and then embedded into other networks t…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

MambaNet: A Hybrid Neural Network for Predicting the NBA Playoffs

Reza Khanmohammadi, Sari Saba-Sadiya, Sina Esfandiarpour +2

In this paper, we present Mambanet: a hybrid neural network for predicting the outcomes of Basketball games. Contrary to other studies, which focus primarily on season games, this…

cs.LG2022

Nightly Automobile Claims Prediction from Telematics-Derived Features: A Multilevel Approach

Allen R. Williams, Yoolim Jin, Anthony Duer +2

In recent years it has become possible to collect GPS data from drivers and to incorporate this data into automobile insurance pricing for the driver. This data is continuously col…

cs.LG2021

Feature Imitating Networks

Sari Saba-Sadiya, Tuka Alhanai, Mohammad M Ghassemi

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to neural learning: the Feature-Imitating-Network (FIN). A FIN is a neural network with weights that are initialized to reliably approx…

eess.SP2021★ 9 cited

Fetal Gender Identification using Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms on Phonocardiogram Signals

Reza Khanmohammadi, Mitra Sadat Mirshafiee, Mohammad Mahdi Ghassemi +1

Phonocardiogram (PCG) signal analysis is a critical, widely-studied technology to noninvasively analyze the heart's mechanical activity. Through evaluating heart sounds, this techn…

cs.CL2021

SupCL-Seq: Supervised Contrastive Learning for Downstream Optimized Sequence Representations

Hooman Sedghamiz, Shivam Raval, Enrico Santus +2

While contrastive learning is proven to be an effective training strategy in computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is only recently adopting it as a self-supervised al…

cs.CL2021

Exploring a Unified Sequence-To-Sequence Transformer for Medical Product Safety Monitoring in Social Media

Shivam Raval, Hooman Sedghamiz, Enrico Santus +3

Adverse Events (AE) are harmful events resulting from the use of medical products. Although social media may be crucial for early AE detection, the sheer scale of this data makes i…

eess.SP2020

EEG Channel Interpolation Using Deep Encoder-decoder Netwoks

Sari Saba-Sadiya, Tuka Alhanai, Taosheng Liu +1

Electrode "pop" artifacts originate from the spontaneous loss of connectivity between a surface and an electrode. Electroencephalography (EEG) uses a dense array of electrodes, hen…