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most citedVirtual Lung Screening Trial (VLST): An In Silico Study Inspired by the National Lung Screening Trial for Lung Cancer Detection

10 citations · 11 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CV2026

iTRIALSPACE: Programmable Virtual Lesion Trials for Controlled Evaluation of Lung CT Models

Fakrul Islam Tushar, Umme Hafsa Momy, Joseph Y. Lo +1

We introduce iTRIALSPACE, a programmable evaluation framework for controlled assessment of lung CT models. Standard benchmarks are static retrospective collections that entangle le…

cs.CV2026

ORACLE-CT: Anatomy-Aware Support Pooling for CT Classification

Lavsen Dahal, Yubraj Bhandari, Geoffrey Rubin +1

Abdominal CT disease classification is challenging because each scan is a large 3D volume with many possible findings, while diagnostic evidence is often confined to specific organ…

cs.CV2026

JANUS: Anatomy-Conditioned Gating for Robust CT Triage Under Distribution Shift

Lavsen Dahal, Yubraj Bhandari, Geoffrey Rubin +1

Automated CT triage requires models that are simultaneously accurate across diverse pathologies and reliable under institutional shift. While Vision Transformers provide strong vis…

cs.CV2026

CT-IDP: Segmentation-Derived Quantitative Phenotypes for Interpretable Abdominal CT Disease Classification

Lavsen Dahal, Joseph Y. Lo

In this retrospective multi-institutional study, a quantitative phenotyping framework, CT-IDP (CT Image-Derived Phenotypes) was developed on the MERLIN abdominal CT benchmark (trai…

cs.CV2026

AbdomenGen: Sequential Volume-Conditioned Diffusion Framework for Abdominal Anatomy Generation

Yubraj Bhandari, Lavsen Dahal, Paul Segars +1

Computational phantoms are widely used in medical imaging research, yet current systems to generate controlled, clinically meaningful anatomical variations remain limited. We prese…

cs.CV2026

Tri-Reader: An Open-Access, Multi-Stage AI Pipeline for First-Pass Lung Nodule Annotation in Screening CT

Fakrul Islam Tushar, Joseph Y. Lo

Using multiple open-access models trained on public datasets, we developed Tri-Reader, a comprehensive, freely available pipeline that integrates lung segmentation, nodule detectio…

cs.CV2026

Organ-Aware Attention Improves CT Triage and Classification

Lavsen Dahal, Yubraj Bhandari, Geoffrey D. Rubin +1

There is an urgent need for triage and classification of high-volume medical imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), which can improve patient care and mitigate radiol…

cs.CV2025

NodMAISI: Nodule-Oriented Medical AI for Synthetic Imaging

Fakrul Islam Tushar, Ehsan Samei, Cynthia Rudin +1

Objective: Although medical imaging datasets are increasingly available, abnormal and annotation-intensive findings critical to lung cancer screening, particularly small pulmonary…

stat.AP2025

Demographic Distribution Matching between real world and virtual phantom population

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Fakrul Islam Tushar, Lavsen Dahal +5

Virtual imaging trials (VITs) offer scalable and cost-effective tools for evaluating imaging systems and protocols. However, their translational impact depends on rigorous comparab…

cs.CL2025

Zero-Shot Multi-Disease Labeling of Chest, Abdomen, and Pelvis CT Reports Using Open-Weight Large Language Models: The Effect of Labeling Conventions

Michael E. Garcia-Alcoser, Mobina Ghojoghnejad, Fakrul Islam Tushar +4

Purpose: To compare five lightweight open-weight large language models (LLMs) with a rule-based algorithm (RBA) and fine-tuned RadBERT for zero-shot labeling of chest-abdomen-pelvi…

cs.LG2025

Virtual Patients, Real Gains: Digital Twin-Based Simulated CT for Multitask Lung Nodule Analysis

Fakrul Islam Tushar, Lavsen Dahal, Paul Segars +1

AI-based lung cancer screening is constrained by scarce, annotated CT data, particularly for rare nodule presentations. We investigate whether physics-based, anatomy-informed simul…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Reproducible Benchmarking for Lung Nodule Detection and Malignancy Classification Across Multiple Low-Dose CT Datasets

Fakrul Islam Tushar, Avivah Wang, Lavsen Dahal +7

Evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) models for low-dose CT lung cancer screening is limited by heterogeneous datasets, annotation standards, and evaluation protocols, making…

eess.IV2024★ 10 cited

Virtual Lung Screening Trial (VLST): An In Silico Study Inspired by the National Lung Screening Trial for Lung Cancer Detection

Fakrul Islam Tushar, Liesbeth Vancoillie, Cindy McCabe +16

Clinical imaging trials play a crucial role in advancing medical innovation but are often costly, inefficient, and ethically constrained. Virtual Imaging Trials (VITs) present a so…

eess.IV2024

What limits performance of weakly supervised deep learning for chest CT classification?

Fakrul Islam Tushar, Vincent M. D'Anniballe, Geoffrey D. Rubin +1

Weakly supervised learning with noisy data has drawn attention in the medical imaging community due to the sparsity of high-quality disease labels. However, little is known about t…