{"id":5782,"date":"2026-01-14T13:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:07","slug":"best-oral-presentation-award-for-atallah-madi-at-icaai-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/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
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Congratulations to Atallah Madi<\/strong>, recipient of the Best Oral Presentation Award<\/strong> at the 9th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (ICAAI 2025)<\/strong> in Manchester, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His 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":"

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. His 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}