Steven Hicks
@simulamet.no
SimulaMet
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Artificial Intelligence
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Predicting high-cost healthcare users: development and external validation of multivariable models using the HUNT and Tromsø studies linked to Norwegian health registries
B Berg, S Hicks, V Thambawita, T Rysstad, Q Chen, M Grotle
BMC Health Services Research 26 (1), 518 , 2026
2026 - ImageCLEF 2026: Multimodal Challenges in Medicine, Science, Agritech, and Security
B Ionescu, H Müller, DC Stanciu, A Radzhabov, AGS de Herrera, ...
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 336-344 , 2026
2026 - Low-Dimension Representation Estimation in Principal Component Analysis Under Missing Data
TT Do, V Hua, U Dang, T Nguyen, S Hicks, P Halvorsen, MA Riegler, ...
International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 346-360 , 2026
2026 - Synthesizing Norwegian Dialects in Low-Resource TTS
V Langø, Z Hassan, S Hicks
International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 572-583 , 2026
2026 - Overview of imageclef 2025: Multimedia retrieval in medical, social media and content recommendation applications
B Ionescu, H Müller, DC Stanciu, AG Andrei, A Radzhabov, Y Prokopchuk, ...
International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European … , 2025
2025
Citations: 11 - Medico 2025: Visual Question Answering for Gastrointestinal Imaging
S Gautam, V Thambawita, M Riegler, P Halvorsen, S Hicks
arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10869 , 2025
2025
Citations: 5 - Prompt to Polyp: Medical Text-Conditioned Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models
M Chaichuk, S Gautam, S Hicks, E Tutubalina
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05573 , 2025
2025
Citations: 7 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL ASSESSING THE CLEANLINESS OF THE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT USING PEACE SCALE–THE FEASIBILITY STUDY
M Romanczyk, S Parasa, P Sharma, K Budzyn, M Lesinska, M Machaj, ...
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 101 (5), S223 , 2025
2025 - Using an AI-based avatar for interviewer training at Children’s Advocacy Centers: Proof of Concept
GA Baugerud, MS Johnson, R Dianiska, RK Røed, MB Powell, ME Lamb, ...
Child maltreatment 30 (2), 242-252 , 2025
2025
Citations: 23 - ImageCLEF 2025: multimedia retrieval in medical, social media and content recommendation applications
B Ionescu, H Müller, DC Stanciu, A Idrissi-Yaghir, A Radzhabov, ...
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 398-406 , 2025
2025
Citations: 4 - Artificial intelligence model assessing the cleanliness of the upper gastrointestinal tract using PEACE scale–the feasibility study
M Romańczyk, S Parasa, P Sharma, K Budzyń, M Lesińska, M Machaj, ...
Endoscopy 57 (S 02), OP306 , 2025
2025 - Overview of ImageCLEFmedical 2025–Visual Question Answering and Synthetic Image Generation for Gastrointestinal Tract
S Gautam, V Thambawita, M Riegler, P Halvorsen, S Hicks
2025 - Population averaging of machine learning attention maps from electrocardiograms
N Regginou, J Isaksen, M Nørregaard, C Graff, SA Hicks, V Thambawita, ...
Journal of Electrocardiology 91, 153963 , 2025
2025 - Explainable AI (XAI) in ECG analysis: Transparency, interpretation and explanation
JK Kanters, J Isaksen, M Nørregaard, C Graff, SA Hicks, V Thambawita, ...
Journal of Electrocardiology 91, 153943 , 2025
2025 - Masking Convoluted Neural Networks improve P-wave analysis
H Zhang, XV Margalef, V Cappozzo, J Isaksen, M Nørregaard, C Graff, ...
Journal of Electrocardiology 91, 153996 , 2025
2025 - Evaluating gradient-based explanation methods for neural network ECG analysis using heatmaps
AM Storås, S Mæland, JL Isaksen, SA Hicks, V Thambawita, C Graff, ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 32 (1), 79-88 , 2025
2025
Citations: 8 - Validating polyp and instrument segmentation methods in colonoscopy through Medico 2020 and MedAI 2021 Challenges
D Jha, V Sharma, D Banik, D Bhattacharya, K Roy, SA Hicks, NK Tomar, ...
Medical image analysis 99, 103307 , 2025
2025
Citations: 10 - Interplay between federated learning and explainable artificial intelligence: a scoping review
LM Lopez-Ramos, F Leiser, A Rastogi, S Hicks, I Strümke, VI Madai, ...
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.05874 , 2024
2024
Citations: 24 - Kvasir-vqa: A text-image pair gi tract dataset
S Gautam, AM Storås, C Midoglu, SA Hicks, V Thambawita, P Halvorsen, ...
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Vision-Language Models … , 2024
2024
Citations: 41 - One benchmarking cycle wraps up, and the next ramps up: News from the MediaEval Multimedia Benchmark
MG Constantin, S Hicks, M Larson
ACM SIGMultimedia Records 16 (4), 1-1 , 2024
2024
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- On evaluation metrics for medical applications of artificial intelligence
SA Hicks, I Strümke, V Thambawita, M Hammou, MA Riegler, P Halvorsen, ...
Scientific reports 12 (1), 5979 , 2022
2022
Citations: 1294 - HyperKvasir , a comprehensive multi-class image and video dataset for gastrointestinal endoscopy
H Borgli, V Thambawita, PH Smedsrud, S Hicks, D Jha, SL Eskeland, ...
Scientific data 7 (1), 283 , 2020
2020
Citations: 696 - Kvasir-Capsule , a video capsule endoscopy dataset
PH Smedsrud, V Thambawita, SA Hicks, H Gjestang, OO Nedrejord, ...
Scientific Data 8 (1), 142 , 2021
2021
Citations: 341 - Kvasir-instrument: Diagnostic and therapeutic tool segmentation dataset in gastrointestinal endoscopy
D Jha, S Ali, K Emanuelsen, SA Hicks, V Thambawita, E Garcia-Ceja, ...
International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 218-229 , 2021
2021
Citations: 186 - Impact of image resolution on deep learning performance in endoscopy image classification: An experimental study using a large dataset of endoscopic images
V Thambawita, I Strümke, SA Hicks, P Halvorsen, S Parasa, MA Riegler
Diagnostics 11 (12), 2183 , 2021
2021
Citations: 182 - SinGAN-Seg: Synthetic training data generation for medical image segmentation
V Thambawita, P Salehi, SA Sheshkal, SA Hicks, HL Hammer, S Parasa, ...
PloS one 17 (5), e0267976 , 2022
2022
Citations: 167 - DeepFake electrocardiograms using generative adversarial networks are the beginning of the end for privacy issues in medicine
V Thambawita, JL Isaksen, SA Hicks, J Ghouse, G Ahlberg, A Linneberg, ...
Scientific reports 11 (1), 21896 , 2021
2021
Citations: 123 - Machine learning-based analysis of sperm videos and participant data for male fertility prediction
SA Hicks, JM Andersen, O Witczak, V Thambawita, P Halvorsen, ...
Scientific reports 9 (1), 16770 , 2019
2019
Citations: 119 - Assessing generalisability of deep learning-based polyp detection and segmentation methods through a computer vision challenge
S Ali, N Ghatwary, D Jha, E Isik-Polat, G Polat, C Yang, W Li, A Galdran, ...
Scientific Reports 14 (1), 2032 , 2024
2024
Citations: 115 - Explaining deep neural networks for knowledge discovery in electrocardiogram analysis
SA Hicks, JL Isaksen, V Thambawita, J Ghouse, G Ahlberg, A Linneberg, ...
Scientific reports 11 (1), 10949 , 2021
2021
Citations: 106 - Overview of the imageclef 2023: Multimedia retrieval in medical, social media and internet applications
B Ionescu, H Müller, AM Drăgulinescu, W Yim, A Ben Abacha, N Snider, ...
International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European … , 2023
2023
Citations: 102 - Artificial intelligence in the fertility clinic: status, pitfalls and possibilities
MA Riegler, MH Stensen, O Witczak, JM Andersen, SA Hicks, HL Hammer, ...
Human Reproduction 36 (9), 2429-2442 , 2021
2021
Citations: 99 - Meta-learning with implicit gradients in a few-shot setting for medical image segmentation
R Khadka, D Jha, S Hicks, V Thambawita, MA Riegler, S Ali, P Halvorsen
Computers in Biology and Medicine 143, 105227 , 2022
2022
Citations: 91 - Pmdata: a sports logging dataset
V Thambawita, SA Hicks, H Borgli, HK Stensland, D Jha, MK Svensen, ...
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, 231-236 , 2020
2020
Citations: 88 - The EndoTect 2020 challenge: evaluation and comparison of classification, segmentation and inference time for endoscopy
SA Hicks, D Jha, V Thambawita, P Halvorsen, HL Hammer, MA Riegler
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 263-274 , 2021
2021
Citations: 78 - Visual sentiment analysis from disaster images in social media
SZ Hassan, K Ahmad, S Hicks, P Halvorsen, A Al-Fuqaha, N Conci, ...
Sensors 22 (10), 3628 , 2022
2022
Citations: 77 - Gastrovision: A multi-class endoscopy image dataset for computer aided gastrointestinal disease detection
D Jha, V Sharma, N Dasu, NK Tomar, S Hicks, MK Bhuyan, PK Das, ...
Workshop on machine learning for multimodal healthcare data, 125-140 , 2023
2023
Citations: 75 - Visem: A multimodal video dataset of human spermatozoa
TB Haugen, SA Hicks, JM Andersen, O Witczak, HL Hammer, R Borgli, ...
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, 261-266 , 2019
2019
Citations: 74 - A comprehensive analysis of classification methods in gastrointestinal endoscopy imaging
D Jha, S Ali, S Hicks, V Thambawita, H Borgli, PH Smedsrud, T de Lange, ...
Medical image analysis 70, 102007 , 2021
2021
Citations: 65 - Psykose: A motor activity database of patients with schizophrenia
P Jakobsen, E Garcia-Ceja, LA Stabell, KJ Oedegaard, JO Berle, ...
2020 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems … , 2020
2020
Citations: 63
