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most citedTransformers in Medical Image Analysis: A Review

60 citations · 215 across the 55 of their papers we have counts for

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58 papers

cs.CV2026

XAI-CLIP: ROI-Guided Perturbation Framework for Explainable Medical Image Segmentation in Multimodal Vision-Language Models

Thuraya Alzubaidi, Sana Ammar, Maryam Alsharqi +2

Medical image segmentation is a critical component of clinical workflows, enabling accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. However, despite the superior per…

cs.LG2025

UnifiedFL: A Dynamic Unified Learning Framework for Equitable Federation

Furkan Pala, Islem Rekik

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for collaborative model training across multiple clients without sharing raw data, enabling privacy-preserving applications in…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

FireGNN: Neuro-Symbolic Graph Neural Networks with Trainable Fuzzy Rules for Interpretable Medical Image Classification

Prajit Sengupta, Islem Rekik

Medical image classification requires not only high predictive performance but also interpretability to ensure clinical trust and adoption. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) offer a pow…

cs.LG2025

CogGNN: Cognitive Graph Neural Networks in Generative Connectomics

Mayssa Soussia, Yijun Lin, Mohamed Ali Mahjoub +1

Generative learning has advanced network neuroscience, enabling tasks like graph super-resolution, temporal graph prediction, and multimodal brain graph fusion. However, current me…

cs.LG2025

Multi-Sensory Cognitive Computing for Learning Population-level Brain Connectivity

Mayssa Soussia, Mohamed Ali Mahjoub, Islem Rekik

The generation of connectional brain templates (CBTs) has recently garnered significant attention for its potential to identify unique connectivity patterns shared across individua…

cs.LG2025

GNN-based Unified Deep Learning

Furkan Pala, Islem Rekik

Deep learning models often struggle to maintain generalizability in medical imaging, particularly under domain-fracture scenarios where distribution shifts arise from varying imagi…

cs.LG2025

X-Node: Self-Explanation is All We Need

Prajit Sengupta, Islem Rekik

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in computer vision and medical image classification tasks by capturing structural dependencies across data insta…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Sheaf-based Network for Glioblastoma Molecular Subtype Prediction

Shekhnaz Idrissova, Islem Rekik

Glioblastoma is a highly invasive brain tumor with rapid progression rates. Recent studies have shown that glioblastoma molecular subtype classification serves as a significant bio…

cs.CV2025

NEURAL: Attention-Guided Pruning for Unified Multimodal Resource-Constrained Clinical Evaluation

Devvrat Joshi, Islem Rekik

The rapid growth of multimodal medical imaging data presents significant storage and transmission challenges, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings. We propose NEU…

cs.LG2025

GraphTreeGen: Subtree-Centric Approach to Efficient and Supervised Graph Generation

Yitong Luo, Islem Rekik

Brain connectomes, representing neural connectivity as graphs, are crucial for understanding brain organization but costly and time-consuming to acquire, motivating generative appr…

cs.LG2025

Self-supervised Graph Transformer with Contrastive Learning for Brain Connectivity Analysis towards Improving Autism Detection

Yicheng Leng, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Islem Rekik +2

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides useful insights into the brain function both during task or rest. Representing fMRI data using correlation matrices is found t…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Strongly Topology-preserving GNNs for Brain Graph Super-resolution

Pragya Singh, Islem Rekik

Brain graph super-resolution (SR) is an under-explored yet highly relevant task in network neuroscience. It circumvents the need for costly and time-consuming medical imaging data…

eess.IV2024

UniFed: A Universal Federation of a Mixture of Highly Heterogeneous Medical Image Classification Tasks

Atefe Hassani, Islem Rekik

A fundamental challenge in federated learning lies in mixing heterogeneous datasets and classification tasks while minimizing the high communication cost caused by clients as well…

cs.CV2024

Metadata-Driven Federated Learning of Connectional Brain Templates in Non-IID Multi-Domain Scenarios

Geng Chen, Qingyue Wang, Islem Rekik

A connectional brain template (CBT) is a holistic representation of a population of multi-view brain connectivity graphs, encoding shared patterns and normalizing typical variation…

q-bio.NC2024

Predicting Infant Brain Connectivity with Federated Multi-Trajectory GNNs using Scarce Data

Michalis Pistos, Gang Li, Weili Lin +2

The understanding of the convoluted evolution of infant brain networks during the first postnatal year is pivotal for identifying the dynamics of early brain connectivity developme…

cs.LG2023

Replica Tree-based Federated Learning using Limited Data

Ramona Ghilea, Islem Rekik

Learning from limited data has been extensively studied in machine learning, considering that deep neural networks achieve optimal performance when trained using a large amount of…

cs.LG2023

FALCON: Feature-Label Constrained Graph Net Collapse for Memory Efficient GNNs

Christopher Adnel, Islem Rekik

Graph Neural Network (GNN) ushered in a new era of machine learning with interconnected datasets. While traditional neural networks can only be trained on independent samples, GNN…

cs.CV2023★ 41 cited

Foundational Models in Medical Imaging: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Vision

Bobby Azad, Reza Azad, Sania Eskandari +4

Foundation models, large-scale, pre-trained deep-learning models adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks have gained significant interest lately in various deep-learning proble…

cs.CY2023★ 39 cited

FUTURE-AI: International consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare

Karim Lekadir, Aasa Feragen, Abdul Joseph Fofanah +117

Despite major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for medicine and healthcare, the deployment and adoption of AI technologies remain limited in real-world clinical practice. I…

q-bio.NC2022

Population Template-Based Brain Graph Augmentation for Improving One-Shot Learning Classification

Oben Özgür, Arwa Rekik, Islem Rekik

The challenges of collecting medical data on neurological disorder diagnosis problems paved the way for learning methods with scarce number of samples. Due to this reason, one-shot…

cs.CV2022

Predicting Shape Development: a Riemannian Method

Doğa Türkseven, Islem Rekik, Christoph von Tycowicz +1

Predicting the future development of an anatomical shape from a single baseline observation is a challenging task. But it can be essential for clinical decision-making. Research ha…

q-bio.NC2022

Meta-RegGNN: Predicting Verbal and Full-Scale Intelligence Scores using Graph Neural Networks and Meta-Learning

Imen Jegham, Islem Rekik

Decrypting intelligence from the human brain construct is vital in the detection of particular neurological disorders. Recently, functional brain connectomes have been used success…

q-bio.NC2022

Deep Cross-Modality and Resolution Graph Integration for Universal Brain Connectivity Mapping and Augmentation

Ece Cinar, Sinem Elif Haseki, Alaa Bessadok +1

The connectional brain template (CBT) captures the shared traits across all individuals of a given population of brain connectomes, thereby acting as a fingerprint. Estimating a CB…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Investigating the Predictive Reproducibility of Federated Graph Neural Networks using Medical Datasets

Mehmet Yigit Balik, Arwa Rekik, Islem Rekik

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved extraordinary enhancements in various areas including the fields medical imaging and network neuroscience where they displayed a high acc…