Category: Conference

Received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE CBMS 2022 Conference

ByMahbub Ul Alam

 I recently published a paper with two other co-authors at the IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2022, July 21-23, 2022, Shenzhen, China, Online Event). CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences within the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. The title of my paper is “Exploring LRP and Grad-CAM visualization to interpret multi-label-multi-class pathology prediction using chest radiography, (Mahbub Ul Alam,Read more

First Inria-DFKI European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (IDAI 2021), July 20-23, 2021

ByMahbub Ul Alam

The First Inria-DFKI European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (IDAI 2021) is an online event held on July 20-23, 2021. It had two themes, ‘Trustworthy AI‘ and ‘AI for Medicine‘. Along with the latest methodological advances and the shared vision of the future, it also offered hands-on courses. Participants were also offered the opportunity to present their work to each other in dedicated poster/demo sessions. I participated in the ‘AI for Medicine‘ track. The keynotesRead more

Data Science @ DSV Ph.D. Workshop on March 26, 2021

ByMahbub Ul Alam

The Data Science Research Group at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) of Stockholm University organized a Ph.D. Workshop where Ph.D. students presented their ongoing research. Mykola Pechenizkiy (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) was the keynote speaker on the topic ‘On Explainable Machine Learning’. Along with Uno Fors, Jelena Zdravkovic, and the Data Science Research Group from DSV, the respected external participants were as follows, Allan Tucker Brunel Univ. Myra Spiliopoulou Univ.Read more

Abstract publication: Automated surveillance of urinary tract infections in a tertiary care hospital in Stockholm, 18-21 April, 2020 (event canceled)

ByMahbub Ul Alam

Recently I participated in one interesting work titled ‘Automated surveillance of urinary tract infections in a tertiary care hospital in Stockholm.’ I was responsible for mining the UTI-symptoms from free medical text data using natural language processing to be used in Algorithm 3. Algorithm 3 provided the best-balanced performance in the evaluation. The work is published as an abstract (abstract 3546) in the ‘Abstract Book 2020, European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)’.Read more

13th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2020) and the ‘best paper award’, 24-26 February, 2020

ByMahbub Ul Alam

I presented a research paper entitled ‘Deep Learning from Heterogeneous Sequences of Sparse Medical Data for Early Prediction of Sepsis‘ in the 13th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF), Malta, Valletta, 24-26 February 2020 organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). The paper won the HEALTHINF 2020 Best Paper Award. Overall it was an enjoyable experience, and I learned a lot from all. My presentation slides are attachedRead more

Mini-symposium on automated sepsis detection using machine learning techniques at the Karolinska Institute, May 2, 2019

ByMahbub Ul Alam

Recently I attended a symposium about sepsis and the early detection using machine learning. I presented my current work there. David Forsberg (postdoc from Professor Eric Herlenius group in the Pediatrics department) and John Karlsson Valik (MD. PhD‐student at Karolinska Institutet) introduced us to a mini-symposium on Automated sepsis detection using machine learning techniques. The symposium took place on the 2nd of May between 9 am – 12 noon at Nya Karolinska Solna. We startedRead more

Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference, Stockholm, 7-9 November 2018

ByMahbub Ul Alam

I worked as a volunteer in the seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference, Stockholm, 7-9 November 2018. I was very new in Stockholm at that time. The other volunteers, Johanna, Jacqueline, Adam, and Murathan were very helpful, cordial, and welcoming to me. I especially loved the snowy Stockholm University’s Frescati campus, the fashionable and mighty Aula Magna, the cozy and nostalgic Juristernas Hus. I learned a lot from the conference chair Professor Mats Wirén, Department ofRead more

2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), 31 October – 04 November, 2018

ByMahbub Ul Alam

Hello everyone. I hope you are all fine and enjoying this beautiful winter. 🙂 Recently I have attended the EMNLP 2018 conference. It was held in Brussels, Belgium at the city center from 31 October to 04 November. Just a few statistics about the conference, EMNLP 2018 had 14 workshops, six tutorials, three invited speakers, 351 long paper presentations, 198 short paper presentations, 10 TACL paper presentations, and 29 demos. It received 2,231 valid submissions,Read more