Publications

@inproceedings{gogineni2026c2a,
  title     = {{C$^2$A: Coupling Spatial Evidence with Clinical Priors via Co-occurrence Aware Class Attention for Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Classification}},
  author    = {Gogineni, Akash and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Mandava, Aasrith and Masood, Adnan and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2026)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09774}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2026dia,
  title     = {{DiA-gnostic VLVAE: Disentangled Alignment-Constrained Vision Language Variational AutoEncoder for Robust Radiology Reporting with Missing Modalities}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Masood, Adnan and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.05968}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2026disentangling,
  title     = {{Disentangling Co-Occurring Retinal Pathologies with Saliency-Guided Sparse Expert Routing}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Park, Jeongwoo and Kim, Yeong-Jin and Jung, Jaeuk and Oh, Hyunjung and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2026)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09752}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2026dream,
  title     = {{DREAM: Dynamic Retinal Enhancement with Adaptive Multi-modal Fusion for Expert Precision Medical Report Generation}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.17209}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2026region,
  title     = {{Region-Affinity Attention for Whole-Slide Breast Cancer Classification in Deep Ultraviolet Imaging}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.17222}
}

@inproceedings{cherukuri2025dynamic,
  title     = {{Dynamic Contextual Attention Network: Transforming Spatial Representations into Adaptive Insights for Endoscopic Polyp Diagnosis}},
  author    = {Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Yellu, Sribhuvan Reddy and Chung, Jun-Won and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.20306}
}

@article{shaik2025adaptive,
  title     = {{Adaptive Fusion Attention for enhanced classification and interpretability in medical imaging}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu and Bodapati, Jyostna Devi},
  journal   = {Machine Vision and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00138-025-01665-0}
}

@inproceedings{cherukuri2025gcs,
  title     = {{GCS-M3VLT: Guided Context Self-Attention based Multi-modal Medical Vision Language Transformer for Retinal Image Captioning}},
  author    = {Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10890310}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2025multi,
  title     = {{Multi-modal Imaging Genomics Transformer: Attentive Integration of Imaging with Genomic Biomarkers for Schizophrenia Classification}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Calhoun, Vince D and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.19385}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2025ordinal,
  title     = {{Ordinal Label-Distribution Learning with Constrained Asymmetric Priors for Imbalanced Retinal Grading}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna, Masood, Adnan and Adeli, Ehsan, Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) Workshop: The Second Workshop on GenAI for Health: Potential, Trust, and Policy Compliance},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://openreview.net/pdf?id=hatzHLfYtF}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2024m3t,
  title     = {{M3T: Multi-Modal Medical Transformer to Bridge Clinical Context with Visual Insights for Retinal Image Medical Description Generation}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10647584}
}

@inproceedings{shaik2024spatial,
  title     = {{Spatial Sequence Attention Network for Schizophrenia Classification from Structural Brain MR Images}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Calhoun, Vince D and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10635528}
}

@article{shaik2024gated,
  title     = {{Gated contextual transformer network for multi-modal retinal image clinical description generation}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna},
  journal   = {Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier B.V.},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262885624000490}
}

@inproceedings{cherukuri2024guided,
  title     = {{Guided Context Gating: Learning to Leverage Salient Lesions in Retinal Fundus Images}},
  author    = {Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Ye, Dong Hye},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10647604}
}

@article{shaik2024medtransnet,
  title     = {{Medtransnet: advanced gating transformer network for medical image classification}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu and Bodapati, Jyostna Devi},
  journal   = {Machine Vision and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00138-024-01542-2}
}

@article{shaik2022hinge,
  title     = {{Hinge attention network: A joint model for diabetic retinopathy severity grading}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna},
  journal   = {Applied Intelligence, Springer US New York},
  year      = {2022},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10489-021-03043-5}
}

@article{shaik2022visual,
  title     = {{Visual attention based composite dense neural network for facial expression recognition}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna},
  journal   = {Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg},
  year      = {2022},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12652-022-03843-8}
}

@article{bodapati2021composite,
  title     = {{Composite deep neural network with gated-attention mechanism for diabetic retinopathy severity classification}},
  author    = {Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu},
  journal   = {Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12652-020-02727-z}
}

@article{bodapati2021deep,
  title     = {{Deep convolution feature aggregation: an application to diabetic retinopathy severity level prediction}},
  author    = {Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu},
  journal   = {Signal Image and Video Processing, Springer London},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11760-020-01816-y}
}

@article{bodapati2021joint,
  title     = {{Joint training of two-channel deep neural network for brain tumor classification}},
  author    = {Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu and Mundukur, Nirupama Bhat},
  journal   = {Signal Image and Video Processing, Springer London},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11760-020-01793-2}
}

@article{shaik2021lesion,
  title     = {{Lesion-aware attention with neural support vector machine for retinopathy diagnosis}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna},
  journal   = {Machine Vision and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00138-021-01253-y}
}

@article{bodapati2021msenet,
  title     = {{MSENet: Multi-Modal Squeeze-and-Excitation Network for Brain Tumor Severity Prediction}},
  author    = {Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu and Mundukur, Nirupama Bhat},
  journal   = {International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), World Scientific},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0218001421570056}
}

@article{shaik2021multi,
  title     = {{Multi-level attention network: application to brain tumor classification}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna},
  journal   = {Signal Image and Video Processing, Springer London},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11760-021-02022-0}
}

@article{shaik2021transfer,
  title     = {{Transfer learning based novel ensemble classifier for COVID-19 detection from chest CT-scans}},
  author    = {Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Cherukuri, Teja Krishna},
  journal   = {Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier B.V.},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010482521009215}
}

@article{bodapati2020blended,
  title     = {{Blended multi-modal deep convnet features for diabetic retinopathy severity prediction}},
  author    = {Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Hakak, Saqib and Bilal, Muhammad and Maddikunta, Praveen Kumar Reddy and Jo, Ohyun},
  journal   = {Electronics, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/6/914}
}

@article{dondeti2020deep,
  title     = {{Deep Convolution Features in Non-linear Embedding Space for Fundus Image Classification}},
  author    = {Dondeti, Venkatesulu and Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Shaik, Nagur Shareef and Veeranjaneyulu, Naralasetti},
  journal   = {Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, International Information and Engineering Technology Association (IIETA)},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://www.iieta.org/journals/ria/paper/10.18280/ria.340308}
}

@article{bodapati2019sentiment,
  title     = {{Sentiment Analysis from Movie Reviews Using LSTMs.}},
  author    = {Bodapati, Jyostna Devi and Naralasetti, Veeranjaneyulu and Shaik, Nagur Shareef},
  journal   = {Ingénierie des Systèmes d Inf., International Information and Engineering Technology Association (IIETA)},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {https://www.iieta.org/journals/isi/paper/10.18280/isi.240119}
}