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most citedRobust Explainability: A Tutorial on Gradient-Based Attribution Methods for Deep Neural Networks

110 citations · 165 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

stat.ML2025★ 1 cited

DICOM De-Identification via Hybrid AI and Rule-Based Framework for Scalable, Uncertainty-Aware Redaction

Kyle Naddeo, Nikolas Koutsoubis, Rahul Krish +4

Access to medical imaging and associated text data has the potential to drive major advances in healthcare research and patient outcomes. However, the presence of Protected Health…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Medical Image De-Identification Benchmark Challenge

Linmin Pei, Granger Sutton, Michael Rutherford +67

The de-identification (deID) of protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) is a fundamental requirement for sharing medical images, particular…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Dynamic Continual Learning: Harnessing Parameter Uncertainty for Improved Network Adaptation

Christopher Angelini, Nidhal Bouaynaya

When fine-tuning Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to new data, DNNs are prone to overwriting network parameters required for task-specific functionality on previously learned tasks, res…

cs.LG2024

Adversarially Diversified Rehearsal Memory (ADRM): Mitigating Memory Overfitting Challenge in Continual Learning

Hikmat Khan, Ghulam Rasool, Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya

Continual learning focuses on learning non-stationary data distribution without forgetting previous knowledge. Rehearsal-based approaches are commonly used to combat catastrophic f…

cs.CV2023

Out-of-distribution Object Detection through Bayesian Uncertainty Estimation

Tianhao Zhang, Shenglin Wang, Nidhal Bouaynaya +2

The superior performance of object detectors is often established under the condition that the test samples are in the same distribution as the training data. However, in many prac…

cs.LG2023

Variational Density Propagation Continual Learning

Christopher Angelini, Nidhal Bouaynaya, Ghulam Rasool

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deployed to the real world are regularly subject to out-of-distribution (OoD) data, various types of noise, and shifting conceptual objectives. This pap…

cs.CV2023

Deep Ensemble for Rotorcraft Attitude Prediction

Hikmat Khan, Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya, Ghulam Rasool +3

Historically, the rotorcraft community has experienced a higher fatal accident rate than other aviation segments, including commercial and general aviation. Recent advancements in…

cs.LG2023

The Importance of Robust Features in Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting

Hikmat Khan, Nidhal C. Bouaynaya, Ghulam Rasool

Continual learning (CL) is an approach to address catastrophic forgetting, which refers to forgetting previously learned knowledge by neural networks when trained on new tasks or d…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

EvalAttAI: A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Attribution Maps in Robust and Non-Robust Models

Ian E. Nielsen, Ravi P. Ramachandran, Nidhal Bouaynaya +2

The expansion of explainable artificial intelligence as a field of research has generated numerous methods of visualizing and understanding the black box of a machine learning mode…

cs.CV2023★ 13 cited

Efficient Scopeformer: Towards Scalable and Rich Feature Extraction for Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection

Yassine Barhoumi, Nidhal C. Bouaynaya, Ghulam Rasool

The quality and richness of feature maps extracted by convolution neural networks (CNNs) and vision Transformers (ViTs) directly relate to the robust model performance. In medical…

cs.LG2021

Robust Learning via Ensemble Density Propagation in Deep Neural Networks

Giuseppina Carannante, Dimah Dera, Ghulam Rasool +2

Learning in uncertain, noisy, or adversarial environments is a challenging task for deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose a new theoretically grounded and efficient approach for…

cs.LG2021

Self-Compression in Bayesian Neural Networks

Giuseppina Carannante, Dimah Dera, Ghulam Rasool +1

Machine learning models have achieved human-level performance on various tasks. This success comes at a high cost of computation and storage overhead, which makes machine learning…

eess.IV2021★ 4 cited

SUPER-Net: Trustworthy Image Segmentation via Uncertainty Propagation in Encoder-Decoder Networks

Giuseppina Carannante, Nidhal C. Bouaynaya, Dimah Dera +2

Deep Learning (DL) holds great promise in reshaping the industry owing to its precision, efficiency, and objectivity. However, the brittleness of DL models to noisy and out-of-dist…

eess.IV2021★ 11 cited

Dilated Inception U-Net (DIU-Net) for Brain Tumor Segmentation

Daniel E. Cahall, Ghulam Rasool, Nidhal C. Bouaynaya +1

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is routinely used for brain tumor diagnosis, treatment planning, and post-treatment surveillance. Recently, various models based on deep neural net…

cs.LG2021★ 110 cited

Robust Explainability: A Tutorial on Gradient-Based Attribution Methods for Deep Neural Networks

Ian E. Nielsen, Dimah Dera, Ghulam Rasool +2

With the rise of deep neural networks, the challenge of explaining the predictions of these networks has become increasingly recognized. While many methods for explaining the decis…

cs.LG2021★ 17 cited

Exploring Robust Architectures for Deep Artificial Neural Networks

Asim Waqas, Ghulam Rasool, Hamza Farooq +1

The architectures of deep artificial neural networks (DANNs) are routinely studied to improve their predictive performance. However, the relationship between the architecture of a…

eess.SP2018

Constrained State Estimation -- A Review

Nesrine Amor, Ghulam Rasool, Nidhal C. Bouaynaya

The real-world applications in signal processing generally involve estimating the system state or parameters in nonlinear, non-Gaussian dynamic systems. The estimation problem may…

cs.AI2009

Two-Dimensional ARMA Modeling for Breast Cancer Detection and Classification

Nidhal Bouaynaya, Jerzy Zielinski, Dan Schonfeld

We propose a new model-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for tumor detection and classification (cancerous v.s. benign) in breast images. Specifically, we show that (x-ra…