Publications by authors named "Kleanthis Avramidis"

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and pervasive computing offers new opportunities to sense mental health symptoms and deliver just-in-time adaptive interventions via mobile devices. This pilot study tested personalized versus generalized machine learning models for detecting individual and family mental health symptoms as a foundational step toward JITAI development, using data collected through the Colliga app on smart devices. Over a 60-day period, data from 35 families resulted in approximately 14 million data points across 52 data streams.

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Self-supervised learning has produced impressive results in multimedia domains of audio, vision and speech. This paradigm is equally, if not more, relevant for the domain of biosignals, owing to the scarcity of labelled data in such scenarios. The ability to leverage large-scale unlabelled data to learn robust representations could help improve the performance of numerous inference tasks on biosignals.

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A wide range of neurological and cognitive disorders exhibit distinct behavioral markers aside from their clinical manifestations. Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) is a prime example of such conditions, resulting from damage to visual pathways in the brain, and adversely impacting low- and high-level visual function. The characteristics impacted by CVI are primarily described qualitatively, challenging the establishment of an objective, evidence-based measure of CVI severity.

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Cerebral/cortical visual impairment (CVI) is a leading cause of pediatric visual impairment in the United States and other developed countries, and is increasingly diagnosed in developing nations due to improved care and survival of children who are born premature or have other risk factors for CVI. Despite this, there is currently no objective, standardized method to quantify the diverse visual impairments seen in children with CVI who are young and developmentally delayed. We propose a method that combines eye tracking and an image-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) model (SegCLIP) to assess higher- and lower-level visual characteristics in children with CVI.

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Ubiquitous sensing from wearable devices in the wild holds promise for enhancing human well-being, from diagnosing clinical conditions and measuring stress to building adaptive health promoting scaffolds. But the large volumes of data therein across heterogeneous contexts pose challenges for conventional supervised learning approaches. Representation Learning from biological signals is an emerging realm catalyzed by the recent advances in computational modeling and the abundance of publicly shared databases.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to create an AI model that helps distinguish between pediatric pseudopapilledema and true papilledema using fundus photographs from children under 18 years old.
  • A total of 851 fundus images from 235 children were analyzed by the AI, which utilized a DenseNet backbone and a specialized neural network for classification.
  • Results showed that the AI model achieved higher accuracy and sensitivity compared to human experts, especially in detecting mild cases of papilledema, although its specificity was comparable to that of the experts.
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