Dr. Asma Ben Abacha
@AsmaBenAbacha
Senior Scientist @Microsoft #Health #AI
Many thanks to the @allen_ai team for inviting me to talk about medical question answering and for the exciting meetings and discussions. For those interested in QA, VQA and medical NLP, my talk is available here: youtu.be/Fjsz5Giw9rs
📝 📣 [New Blog & Jupyter Notebook] We are happy to share our latest blog post ✨AI Methods for the Automation of 3D Image Retrieval in Radiology✨ The integration of 3D image search systems can provide better context to clinicians and researchers for accurate diagnoses of…
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Image Search Series Part 2: AI Methods for the Automation of 3D Image Retrieval in Radiology techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Healthcar… #Microsoft #techcommunity
🚀 Call for Participation: Dermatology Image Segmentation & Visual Question Answering Challenges @ #ImageCLEF MEDIQA-MAGIC 2025 The new edition of the MEDIQA-MAGIC Task @ #CLEF2025 features two challenges on Dermatology Image Segmentation & Visual Question Answering (VQA). -- We…

#MICCAI2024 🇲🇦 Join us tomorrow morning at our poster #61 to talk about DermaVQA, the first VQA dataset for Dermatology ➡️ W-AM-061 DermaVQA: A Multilingual Visual Question Answering Dataset for Dermatology, with Wen-wai Yim @MICCAI_Society @MSFTResearch

Second keynote at #HEALTAC2024 by Dr Alistair Johnson - The bottleneck has always been #data!
#CLEF2024 Great presentations from the Radiology Image Captioning Task ➡️ imageclef.org/2024/medical/c… - Overview paper describing the task, data, methods & results of the 14 participating teams: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3740/paper… - Co-organized with @albagarciaseco, Christoph Friedrich,…




Patrycja Cieplicka & Maciej Morawski presenting their winning solution based on fine-tuning small vision language models @ the #ImageCLEF2024 MEDIQA-MAGIC competition on Dermatology VQA. Paper: "VisionQAries at MEDIQA-MAGIC 2024: Small Vision Language Models for Dermatological…




Interesting methods & results on RAG for Biomedical Question Answering from the first session of the @BioASQ workshop @ #CLEF2024 Generative Large Language Models Augmented Hybrid Retrieval System for Biomedical Question Answering Bor-Woei Huang: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3740/paper… MiBi at…




#CLEF2024 ➡️ The @ImageCLEF 2024 program is now available online, with 3 sessions on September 10 and 11, and 4 medical tasks including: (1) Caption Generation from Radiology Images and (2) Multimodal Answer Generation for Dermatology Questions and Images: imageclef.org/2024…

For those interested in LLMs and Clinical NLP, slides from my guest lecture on "Large Language Models and Applications in Healthcare" at the University of Illinois are available here: slideshare.net/slideshows/lar…
The 8th edition of the Medical Image Captioning Task @ #ImageCLEF is open for registration. The training & val datasets will be released soon! Participants' papers will be presented @ #CLEF2024 ➡️ For more info imageclef.org/2024/medical/c… @henmueller1 @albagarciaseco @clef_initiative

If you are interested in medical NLP/CV/AI, #MEDIQA 2024 includes 3 competitions on Multimodal & Multilingual Medical Answer Generation and Medical Error Correction @ #CLEF & #NAACL-#ClinicalNLP 2024➡️sites.google.com/view/mediqa202… w. Wen-wai Yim, Meliha Yetisgen, Fei Xia & @MKrallinger

Are you working at the intersection of healthcare and #NLP? Please join us in June for the Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, co-located with NAACL in Mexico City. The call for papers and shared tasks for #ClinicalNLP is now posted: clinical-nlp.github.io/2024/call-for-…