13 papers
From Manuals to Maintenance: Fine-Tuning MedGemma for Multi-Modal Imaging System Support in Low-Resource Settings
Bernes Lorier Atabonfack, Zion Kongbi Nfo, Ahmed Tahiru Issah +9
Imaging device downtime is a major barrier to healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), often driven by limited access to specialized biomedical engineering…
ULF-Synth: Physics-Guided Ultra-Low-Field MRI Enhancement for Pediatric Neuroimaging
Toufiq Musah, Salvatore Calcagno, Federica Proietto Salanitri +3
Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI offers portable and accessible neuroimaging but suffers from reduced signal-to-noise ratio and limited spatial resolution compared to high-field (HF) syst…
Empowering Medical Equipment Sustainability in Low-Resource Settings: An AI-Powered Diagnostic and Support Platform for Biomedical Technicians
Bernes Lorier Atabonfack, Ahmed Tahiru Issah, Mohammed Hardi Abdul Baaki +5
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a significant proportion of medical diagnostic equipment remains underutilized or non-functional due to a lack of timely maintenance, l…
Domain-Adaptive Transformer for Data-Efficient Glioma Segmentation in Sub-Saharan MRI
Ilerioluwakiiye Abolade, Aniekan Udo, Augustine Ojo +5
Glioma segmentation is critical for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet remains challenging in Sub-Saharan Africa due to limited MRI infrastructure and heterogeneous acquisition…
Towards Trustworthy Breast Tumor Segmentation in Ultrasound using Monte Carlo Dropout and Deep Ensembles for Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation
Toufiq Musah, Chinasa Kalaiwo, Maimoona Akram +7
Automated segmentation of BUS images is important for precise lesion delineation and tumor characterization, but is challenged by inherent artifacts and dataset inconsistencies. In…
Themed Challenges to Solve Data Scarcity in Africa: A Proposition for Increasing Local Data Collection and Integration
Mubaraq Yakubu, Udunna Anazodo, Maruf Adewole +6
In Africa, the scarcity of computational resources and medical datasets remains a major hurdle to the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in clinical s…