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  "title": "Numan Saeed - AI Research Scientist",
  "home_page_url": "https://www.numansaeed.com/",
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  "description": "Research updates, publications, and news from Numan Saeed, AI Research Scientist at MBZUAI working on medical imaging, multimodal learning, and AI for healthcare and climate.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Numan Saeed",
      "url": "https://www.numansaeed.com/"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en",
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      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2026-07-03-echosonar-r-accepted-at-eccv-2026",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28164",
      "title": "EchoSonar-R Accepted at ECCV 2026",
      "content_text": "🎉 Our paper \"EchoSonar-R: A Multi-View Reasoning-Enabled Model for Disease Classification and Report Generation in Echocardiography\" is accepted at ECCV 2026! EchoSonar-R is a multi-view reasoning vision-language model for joint disease classification and clinical report generation from echocardiography.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2026-06-10-2-papers-accepted-at-cvpr-2026-findings",
      "url": "https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026F/papers/Ghosh_CarePilot_A_Multi-Agent_Framework_for_Long-Horizon_Computer_Task_Automation_in_CVPRF_2026_paper.pdf",
      "title": "2 Papers Accepted at CVPR 2026 (Findings)",
      "content_text": "🎉 Two papers accepted to CVPR 2026 (Findings): CarePilot, a multi-agent framework for long-horizon computer task automation, and AnatomiX, an anatomy-aware grounded multimodal large language model for chest imaging. Links: CarePilot Paper (https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026F/papers/Ghosh_CarePilot_A_Multi-Agent_Framework_for_Long-Horizon_Computer_Task_Automation_in_CVPRF_2026_paper.pdf), AnatomiX Paper (https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026F/papers/Hashmi_AnatomiX_an_Anatomy-Aware_Grounded_Multimodal_Large_Language_Model_for_Chest_CVPRF_2026_paper.pdf).",
      "date_published": "2026-06-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2026-06-05-fetalclip-accepted-at-npj-digital-medicine",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14807",
      "title": "FetalCLIP Accepted at npj Digital Medicine",
      "content_text": "🎉 Our paper \"FetalCLIP: A Visual-Language Foundation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Image Analysis\" is accepted at npj Digital Medicine (Nature Portfolio)! FetalCLIP is the first vision-language foundation model for fetal ultrasound, pre-trained on 210,035 image-text pairs and achieving strong performance across classification, gestational age estimation, CHD detection, and segmentation. Links: Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14807), Website (https://biomedia-mbzuai.github.io/FetalCLIP/), Code (https://github.com/biomedia-mbzuai/fetalclip).",
      "date_published": "2026-06-05T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2026-04-29-cardiobench-accepted-at-ijcai-2026",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00520",
      "title": "CardioBench Accepted at IJCAI 2026",
      "content_text": "🎉 Our paper \"CardioBench: Do Echocardiography Foundation Models Generalize Beyond the Lab?\" is accepted at IJCAI 2026! The benchmark unifies 8 datasets across 4 regression and 5 classification tasks for evaluating echocardiography foundation models with reproducible evaluation pipelines.",
      "date_published": "2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2026-03-06-mobilefetalclip-website-code-and-weights-released",
      "url": "https://www.numansaeed.com/mobilefetalclip/",
      "title": "MobileFetalCLIP Website, Code, and Weights Released",
      "content_text": "🚀 Released MobileFetalCLIP, a mobile fetal ultrasound model distilled from FetalCLIP for handheld deployment. The project page, paper, code, and model weights are now publicly available. Links: Website (https://www.numansaeed.com/mobilefetalclip/), Paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05421), Code (https://github.com/numanai/MobileFetalCLIP), Weights (https://huggingface.co/collections/numansaeed/fetal-ultrasound-models).",
      "date_published": "2026-03-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2026-01-31-selected-as-area-chair-for-miccai-2026",
      "url": "https://conferences.miccai.org/2026/en/default.asp",
      "title": "Selected as Area Chair for MICCAI 2026",
      "content_text": "🎖️ Honored to be selected as an Area Chair for MICCAI 2026, the premier international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.",
      "date_published": "2026-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Award"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2026-01-25-fetal-gauge-benchmark-accepted-at-iclr-2026",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22278",
      "title": "FETAL-GAUGE Benchmark Accepted at ICLR 2026",
      "content_text": "🎉 Our paper \"FETAL-GAUGE: A Benchmark for Assessing Vision-Language Models in Fetal Ultrasound\" is accepted to ICLR 2026! The benchmark comprises 42,000+ images and 93,000+ question-answer pairs spanning anatomical plane identification, visual grounding, fetal orientation, clinical view conformity, and diagnosis tasks. Links: Paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22278), Code (https://github.com/BioMedIA-MBZUAI/FETAL-GAUGE).",
      "date_published": "2026-01-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-11-13-2-papers-accepted-at-wacv-2026",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03483",
      "title": "2 Papers Accepted at WACV 2026",
      "content_text": "🎉 Two papers accepted to WACV 2026: MAFM³ for modular adaptation of foundation models using lightweight \"skill set\" components for multi-domain medical AI, and DuPLUS, a dual-prompt vision-language framework for universal segmentation across 10 datasets (30+ organs) with prognosis capabilities achieving C-index of 0.69. Links: DuPLUS Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03483), DuPLUS Code (https://github.com/BioMedIA-MBZUAI/DuPLUS), MAFM³ Code (https://github.com/Areeb2735/CTscan_prognosis_VLM).",
      "date_published": "2025-11-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-10-01-cardiobench-standardized-benchmark-for-echocardiography-fms",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00520",
      "title": "CardioBench: Standardized Benchmark for Echocardiography FMs",
      "content_text": "🫀 Released CardioBench, a comprehensive benchmark unifying 8 datasets across 4 regression and 5 classification tasks for evaluating echocardiography foundation models, with reproducible evaluation pipelines addressing key challenges in cardiac ultrasound.",
      "date_published": "2025-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-09-23-hecktor-2025-challenge-concluded-successfully-at-miccai",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7376503202642526209/",
      "title": "HECKTOR 2025 Challenge Concluded Successfully at MICCAI",
      "content_text": "🎯 Successfully concluded the 4th HECKTOR Challenge at MICCAI 2025 in Daejeon with winners across 3 tasks: MedAI (Segmentation - won NVIDIA DGX SPARK!), SIMS-LIFE (Recurrence Prediction), and Interstellar (HPV Diagnosis). Special thanks to NVIDIA for sponsorship.",
      "date_published": "2025-09-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Award"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-09-01-hecktor-dataset-released-1123-head-neck-cancer-pet-ct-studies",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00367",
      "title": "HECKTOR Dataset Released: 1123 Head & Neck Cancer PET/CT Studies",
      "content_text": "🗂️ Released a multimodal dataset of 1123 FDG-PET/CT studies from 10 international centers with expert annotations, radiotherapy dose maps, and clinical metadata for tumor segmentation, survival prediction, and HPV classification. Links: Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00367), Dataset (https://hecktor25.grand-challenge.org/), Code (https://github.com/BioMedIA-MBZUAI/HECKTOR2025).",
      "date_published": "2025-09-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-07-25-survey-paper-accepted-at-acm-computing-surveys",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.13482",
      "title": "Survey Paper Accepted at ACM Computing Surveys",
      "content_text": "📚 Comprehensive survey on continual learning in medical imaging accepted at ACM Computing Surveys. The paper addresses catastrophic forgetting and distribution shifts, providing taxonomy, practical insights, and future directions for the field. Links: Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.13482), GitHub (https://github.com/BioMedIA-MBZUAI/awesome-cl-in-medical).",
      "date_published": "2025-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-07-20-paper-accepted-at-mlhc-2025",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09196",
      "title": "Paper Accepted at MLHC 2025",
      "content_text": "📄 FIVA accepted to MLHC 2025: A federated learning approach for universal CT segmentation that uses Bayesian inverse-variance aggregation for privacy-preserving collaboration with uncertainty quantification for clinical reliability. Links: Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09196), Code (https://github.com/asimukaye/fiva).",
      "date_published": "2025-07-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-07-15-2-papers-accepted-at-bmvc-2025",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15298",
      "title": "2 Papers Accepted at BMVC 2025",
      "content_text": "🎉 Two papers accepted to BMVC 2025: TPA for fetal CHD classification achieving 85.40% F1 score using temporal prompt alignment, and InMerge for enhancing robustness of medical imaging models through in-model merging of convolutional kernels. Links: TPA Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15298), InMerge Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.20516).",
      "date_published": "2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-04-07-hecktor-2025-4th-head-neck-tumor-challenge-launched",
      "url": "https://hecktor25.grand-challenge.org/",
      "title": "HECKTOR 2025: 4th Head & Neck Tumor Challenge Launched",
      "content_text": "🏆 Proud to lead the 4th edition of the HECKTOR challenge, a satellite event at MICCAI 2025. This year's challenge focuses on three key tasks: segmentation, recurrence prediction, and HPV status diagnosis, utilizing a large multi-center dataset of over 1200 patients.",
      "date_published": "2025-04-07T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Announcement"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-02-20-fetalclip-first-foundation-model-for-fetal-ultrasound-released",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14807",
      "title": "FetalCLIP: First Foundation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Released",
      "content_text": "🚀 Released FetalCLIP, the first vision-language foundation model for fetal ultrasound images, trained on 210,035 paired images - the largest dataset of its kind. Demonstrates superior performance across classification, gestational age estimation, CHD detection, and segmentation tasks. Links: Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14807), Website (https://biomedia-mbzuai.github.io/FetalCLIP/).",
      "date_published": "2025-02-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2025-01-01-aed-2m-research-grant-awarded",
      "url": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news",
      "title": "AED 2M Research Grant Awarded",
      "content_text": "🏆 Awarded a AED 2M research grant from DOH for the project \"AI for Cancer Prevention, Prediction, and Prognosis.\"",
      "date_published": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Award"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2024-11-15-paper-accepted-at-wacv-2025",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.09400",
      "title": "Paper Accepted at WACV 2025",
      "content_text": "Our paper about the single domain generalization is accepted to WACV 2025.",
      "date_published": "2024-11-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2024-09-20-miccai-2024-oral-presentations",
      "url": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news",
      "title": "MICCAI 2024 Oral Presentations",
      "content_text": "Two of our papers at MICCAI are accepted for Oral Presentation.",
      "date_published": "2024-09-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2024-07-10-paper-accepted-at-bmvc",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.08486",
      "title": "Paper Accepted at BMVC",
      "content_text": "Our paper about the robustness of segmentation models is accepted to BMVC.",
      "date_published": "2024-07-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2024-06-25-miccai-young-scientists-grant",
      "url": "https://miccai.org/index.php/about-miccai/awards/miccai-registration-and-travel-grants/",
      "title": "MICCAI Young Scientists Grant",
      "content_text": "Selected for MICCAI Young Scientists grant.",
      "date_published": "2024-06-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Award"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2024-06-24-miccai-student-travel-award",
      "url": "https://miccai.org/index.php/about-miccai/awards/miccai-registration-and-travel-grants/",
      "title": "MICCAI Student Travel Award",
      "content_text": "Selected for MICCAI Student Travel Award.",
      "date_published": "2024-06-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Award"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2024-06-10-valedictorian-speech-mbzuai",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/numansaeed-pk_ai-machinelearning-mbzuai-activity-7205086956878209024-Dhyk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop",
      "title": "Valedictorian Speech @ MBZUAI",
      "content_text": "Delivered the Valedictorian speech of Class 2024 @ MBZUAI.",
      "date_published": "2024-06-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Speaking"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2024-05-20-4-papers-early-accepted-to-miccai-2024",
      "url": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news",
      "title": "4 Papers Early Accepted to MICCAI 2024",
      "content_text": "Our 4 papers are early accepted to MICCAI 2024.",
      "date_published": "2024-05-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2023-12-15-ph-d-in-machine-learning-completed",
      "url": "https://dclibrary.mbzuai.ac.ae/mletd/61/",
      "title": "Ph.D. in Machine Learning Completed",
      "content_text": "Completed my Ph.D. in Machine Learning @ MBZUAI!",
      "date_published": "2023-12-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Award"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2023-09-10-paper-accepted-to-media",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841523002499",
      "title": "Paper Accepted to MedIA",
      "content_text": "Our paper about the assessment of glioblastoma is accepted to MedIA journal.",
      "date_published": "2023-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2023-06-01-visiting-researcher-at-tum",
      "url": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news",
      "title": "Visiting Researcher at TUM",
      "content_text": "I started working as a Visiting Researcher at the TUM.",
      "date_published": "2023-06-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Collaboration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2023-03-10-paper-accepted-at-midl-2023",
      "url": "https://proceedings.mlr.press/v227/abutalip24a",
      "title": "Paper Accepted at MIDL 2023",
      "content_text": "Our paper about generalizability is accepted to MIDL 2023.",
      "date_published": "2023-03-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2022-06-10-paper-accepted-at-miccai-2022",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-16449-1_31",
      "title": "Paper Accepted at MICCAI 2022",
      "content_text": "Our paper about cancer diagnosis and prognosis is accepted to MICCAI 2022.",
      "date_published": "2022-06-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Publication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.numansaeed.com/#news-2021-09-15-miccai-hecktor-2021-challenge-winner",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-98253-9_26",
      "title": "MICCAI Hecktor 2021 Challenge Winner",
      "content_text": "We won the MICCAI Hecktor 2021 prognosis challenge.",
      "date_published": "2021-09-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "Award"
      ]
    }
  ]
}