VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Ashim Dhor
dblp:356/3640
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 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 |
Segmentation and scene understanding · 77% Graph learning · 23% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer vision › Segmentation and scene understanding
medical image segmentation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Topo-GraT: Learning to Grow with Causal Graph Transformers (Student Abstract) · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph structure learning
graph refinement |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Topo-GraT: Learning to Grow with Causal Graph Transformers (Student Abstract) · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multiple instance learning · 1.0graph transformer · 1.0causal graph attention · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Topo-GraT: Learning to Grow with Causal Graph Transformers (Student Abstract)abstractAutomated cancer segmentation in Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has been dominated by a paradigm of static pattern recognition, where even advanced methods leveraging Transformers, Multiple Instance Learning, or topology-aware losses remain fundamentally descriptive and correlational. To address this limitation, we reframe WSI segmentation from a descriptive task to one of causal process modeling. We introduce Topo-GraT, a novel framework featuring a Causal Growth Field (CGF) to model tumor invasion dynamics and a Causal Flow Attention (CFA) mechanism that embeds this field as an architectural prior. This causal engine is integrated within an iterative graph refinement loop that uses segmentation uncertainty to dynamically focus computational resources on the most ambiguous tissue regions. Our comprehensive experiments on multiple WSI datasets demonstrate that Topo-GraT establishes a new state-of-the-art, significantly outperforming existing methods and reducing the 95% Hausdorff Distance, a key boundary metric, by over 15%. Crucially, our framework yields the CGF as a rich, interpretable output whose structure correlates with tumor aggressiveness, positioning it as a novel biomarker for downstream prognostic tasks. By shifting the paradigm from static recognition to causal reasoning, Topo-GraT offers a more robust, efficient, and clinically insightful approach, setting a new direction for the causally-aware medical image analysis. Ashim Dhor, Smily Bharadwaj |
AAAI | 1 |