VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Roberto A. Novoa
dblp:196/4142
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 87% Image recognition and object detection · 13% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability
concept-based explanation |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SkinCon: A skin disease dataset densely annotated by domain experts for fine-grained debugging and analysis · NeurIPS 2022 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SkinCon: A skin disease dataset densely annotated by domain experts for fine-grained debugging and analysis · NeurIPS 2022 |
Medical and health informatics › digital health
dermatology informatics |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SkinCon: A skin disease dataset densely annotated by domain experts for fine-grained debugging and analysis · NeurIPS 2022 |
Computer vision › Image recognition and object detection
medical image analysis |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | SkinCon: A skin disease dataset densely annotated by domain experts for fine-grained debugging and analysis · NeurIPS 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
slice discovery · 1.1concept bottleneck model · 1.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ImageCLEF 2025: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Social Media and Content Recommendation Applications
Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Dan-Cristian Stanciu, Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Ahmedkhan Radzhabov, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Alexandra-Georgiana Andrei, Andrea M. Storås, Asma Ben Abacha, Benjamin Bracke, Benjamin Lecouteux, Benno Stein 0001, Cécile Macaire, Christoph M. Friedrich, Cynthia Sabrina Schmidt, Diandra Fabre, Didier Schwab, Dimitar Dimitrov 0003, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Mihai Gabriel Constantin, Helmut Becker, Hendrik Damm, Henning Schäfer, Ivan Rodkin, Ivan Koychev, Johannes Kiesel, Johannes Rückert, Josep Malvehy, Liviu-Daniel Stefan, Louise Bloch, Martin Potthast, Maximilian Heinrich, Michael Riegler 0001, Mihai Dogariu, Noel Codella, Pål Halvorsen, Preslav Nakov, Raphael Brüngel, Roberto A. Novoa, Rocktim Jyoti Das, Steven Alexander Hicks, Sushant Gautam, Tabea Margareta Grace Pakull, Vajira Thambawita, Vassili Kovalev, Wen-Wai Yim, Zhuohan Xie |
ECIR (5) | 39 |
| 2022 | SkinCon: A skin disease dataset densely annotated by domain experts for fine-grained debugging and analysisabstractFor the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in high risk settings, such as healthcare, methods that provide interpretability/explainability or allow fine-grained error analysis are critical. Many recent methods for interpretability/explainability and fine-grained error analysis use concepts, which are meta-labels which are semantically meaningful to humans. However, there are only a few datasets that include concept-level meta-labels and most of these meta-labels are relevant for natural images that do not require domain expertise. Previous densely annotated datasets in medicine focused on meta-labels that are relevant to a single disease such as osteoarthritis or melanoma. In dermatology, skin disease is described using an established clinical lexicon that allow clinicians to describe physical exam findings to one another. To provide the first medical dataset densely annotated by domain experts to provide annotations useful across multiple disease processes, we developed SkinCon: a skin disease dataset densely annotated by dermatologists. SkinCon includes 3230 images from the Fitzpatrick 17k skin disease dataset densely annotated with 48 clinical concepts, 22 of which have at least 50 images representing the concept. The concepts used were chosen by two dermatologists considering the clinical descriptor terms used to describe skin lesions. Examples include "plaque", "scale", and "erosion". These same concepts were also used to label 656 skin disease images from the Diverse Dermatology Images dataset, providing an additional external dataset with diverse skin tone representations. We review the potential applications for the SkinCon dataset, such as probing models, concept-based explanations, concept bottlenecks, error analysis, and slice discovery. Furthermore, we use SkinCon to demonstrate two of these use cases: debugging mistakes of an existing dermatology AI model with concepts and developing interpretable models with post-hoc concept bottleneck models. Roxana Daneshjou, Mert Yüksekgönül, Zhuo Ran Cai, Roberto A. Novoa, James Zou 0001 |
NeurIPS | 4 |