{"id":134,"date":"2026-01-30T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/adrianchan\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:00:14","slug":"best-oral-presentation-award-for-atallah-madi-at-icaai-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/adrianchan\/2026\/best-oral-presentation-award-for-atallah-madi-at-icaai-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Oral Presentation Award for Atallah Madi at ICAAI 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-7xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-7xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Best Oral Presentation Award for Atallah Madi at ICAAI 2025\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>Congratulations to Atallah Madi, recipient of the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 9th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI 2025) in Manchester, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/adrianchan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/185\/2026\/01\/Atallah_Madi_ICAAI2025-2-768x960.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%; transform: scale(1);\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Atallah&#8217;s research introduces a method to assist in the diagnostic process of Hirschsprung\u2019s disease. Hirschsprung disease (HD) is a congenital birth disorder that causes colonic nerve cell deformation and intestinal blockage. It is characterized by the lack of colon ganglion cells in the myenteric plexus regions. The disease affects 1 in 5000 newborns globally and may be deadly if untreated. In this paper, a Vision\u2013Language Model (VLM) is trained to classify plexus regions in Hirschsprung\u2019s disease using both digital microscope histopathology images and medical knowledge. The text descriptions of the disease are generated using a Large Language Model (LLM) that is used as a reasoning model and is limited to a set of trusted medical literature. This allows the VLM to make predictions while being aligned to how pathologists examine and interpret tissue samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atallah&#8217;s research introduces a method to assist in the diagnostic process of Hirschsprung\u2019s disease. Hirschsprung disease (HD) is a congenital birth disorder that causes colonic nerve cell deformation and intestinal blockage. It is characterized by the lack of colon ganglion cells in the myenteric plexus regions. 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