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Carve VFM: Carving Specialists out of Generalists, Automatic Task-Specific Compression of Vision Foundation Models
Lotfi Abdelkrim Mecharbat, Abdelrahman Elsayed, Ibrahim Almakky +2
Vision foundation models (VFMs) provide transferable visual representations, but their inference cost limits deployment in many settings. Fine-tuning specializes a VFM without shri…
Hierarchy-Aware and Anatomy-Guided Learning for Lung Ultrasound Video Classification
Alya Almsouti, Lotfi Mecharbat, Noha Aboukhater +5
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a bedside tool for assessing pulmonary edema in patients at risk due to heart failure or impaired kidney function. However, automated LUS analysis remains…
MAFM^3: Modular Adaptation of Foundation Models for Multi-Modal Medical AI
Mohammad Areeb Qazi, Munachiso S Nwadike, Ibrahim Almakky +2
Foundational models are trained on extensive datasets to capture the general trends of a domain. However, in medical imaging, the scarcity of data makes pre-training for every doma…
UNICON: UNIfied CONtinual Learning for Medical Foundational Models
Mohammad Areeb Qazi, Munachiso S Nwadike, Ibrahim Almakky +2
Foundational models are trained on extensive datasets to capture the general trends of a domain. However, in medical imaging, the scarcity of data makes pre-training for every doma…
MedNNS: Supernet-based Medical Task-Adaptive Neural Network Search
Lotfi Abdelkrim Mecharbat, Ibrahim Almakky, Martin Takac +1
Deep learning (DL) has achieved remarkable progress in the field of medical imaging. However, adapting DL models to medical tasks remains a significant challenge, primarily due to…
RP-SAM2: Refining Point Prompts for Stable Surgical Instrument Segmentation
Nuren Zhaksylyk, Ibrahim Almakky, Jay Paranjape +4
Accurate surgical instrument segmentation is essential in cataract surgery for tasks such as skill assessment and workflow optimization. However, limited annotated data makes it di…
SALT: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Singular Value Adaptation with Low-Rank Transformation
Abdelrahman Elsayed, Sarim Hashmi, Mohammed Elseiagy +3
The complex nature of medical image segmentation calls for models that are specifically designed to capture detailed, domain-specific features. Large foundation models offer consid…
In-Model Merging for Enhancing the Robustness of Medical Imaging Classification Models
Hu Wang, Ibrahim Almakky, Congbo Ma +2
Model merging is an effective strategy to merge multiple models for enhancing model performances, and more efficient than ensemble learning as it will not introduce extra computati…
Rethinking Weight-Averaged Model-merging
Hu Wang, Congbo Ma, Ibrahim Almakky +3
Model merging, particularly through weight averaging, has shown surprising effectiveness in saving computations and improving model performance without any additional training. How…
Continual Learning in Medical Imaging: A Survey and Practical Analysis
Mohammad Areeb Qazi, Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi, Santosh Sanjeev +4
Deep Learning has shown great success in reshaping medical imaging, yet it faces numerous challenges hindering widespread application. Issues like catastrophic forgetting and distr…
DynaMMo: Dynamic Model Merging for Efficient Class Incremental Learning for Medical Images
Mohammad Areeb Qazi, Ibrahim Almakky, Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi +2
Continual learning, the ability to acquire knowledge from new data while retaining previously learned information, is a fundamental challenge in machine learning. Various approache…
TiBiX: Leveraging Temporal Information for Bidirectional X-ray and Report Generation
Santosh Sanjeev, Fadillah Adamsyah Maani, Arsen Abzhanov +4
With the emergence of vision language models in the medical imaging domain, numerous studies have focused on two dominant research activities: (1) report generation from Chest X-ra…
FissionFusion: Fast Geometric Generation and Hierarchical Souping for Medical Image Analysis
Santosh Sanjeev, Nuren Zhaksylyk, Ibrahim Almakky +3
The scarcity of well-annotated medical datasets requires leveraging transfer learning from broader datasets like ImageNet or pre-trained models like CLIP. Model soups averages mult…
MedMerge: Merging Models for Effective Transfer Learning to Medical Imaging Tasks
Ibrahim Almakky, Santosh Sanjeev, Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi +3
Transfer learning has become a powerful tool to initialize deep learning models to achieve faster convergence and higher performance. This is especially useful in the medical imagi…
XReal: Realistic Anatomy and Pathology-Aware X-ray Generation via Controllable Diffusion Model
Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi, Ibrahim Almakky, Mohammad Areeb Qazi +4
Large-scale generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in producing visually compelling images, with increasing applications in medical imaging. However, they cont…
Multi-Task Learning Approach for Unified Biometric Estimation from Fetal Ultrasound Anomaly Scans
Mohammad Areeb Qazi, Mohammed Talha Alam, Ibrahim Almakky +3
Precise estimation of fetal biometry parameters from ultrasound images is vital for evaluating fetal growth, monitoring health, and identifying potential complications reliably. Ho…
PECon: Contrastive Pretraining to Enhance Feature Alignment between CT and EHR Data for Improved Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis
Santosh Sanjeev, Salwa K. Al Khatib, Mai A. Shaaban +3
Previous deep learning efforts have focused on improving the performance of Pulmonary Embolism(PE) diagnosis from Computed Tomography (CT) scans using Convolutional Neural Networks…
SEDA: Self-Ensembling ViT with Defensive Distillation and Adversarial Training for robust Chest X-rays Classification
Raza Imam, Ibrahim Almakky, Salma Alrashdi +2
Deep Learning methods have recently seen increased adoption in medical imaging applications. However, elevated vulnerabilities have been explored in recent Deep Learning solutions,…
Arabic Dysarthric Speech Recognition Using Adversarial and Signal-Based Augmentation
Massa Baali, Ibrahim Almakky, Shady Shehata +1
Despite major advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the state-of-the-art ASR systems struggle to deal with impaired speech even with high-resource languages. In Arabi…
Self-Supervision and Multi-Task Learning: Challenges in Fine-Grained COVID-19 Multi-Class Classification from Chest X-rays
Muhammad Ridzuan, Ameera Ali Bawazir, Ivo Gollini Navarette +2
Quick and accurate diagnosis is of paramount importance to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 infection, particularly for severe cases. Enormous effort has been put towards developin…