Publications

Stress-testing the safety of ambient AI clinical documentation in high-volume multilingual specialty care

Naren Akash et al.

MeDxAgent: Multi-Agent Consultation for Interactive Medical Diagnosis

Akshat Sanghvi, Naren Akash, Raza Imam, Amit Sharma and Mohit Jain

Under review Prospective clinical deployment ongoing

X2V: Deformable 2D/3D Registration from Intraoperative X-ray to Volume via Motion Manifold Learning

Siddharth Mangipudi, Naren Akash and P J Narayanan

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2026 - Thoracic Image Analysis, Strasbourg, France Oral presentation

Do Medical Vision Models Reason About Anatomy? Probing the Spatial Inductive Biases of Learned Visual Representations

Naren Akash and Neeraja Ramanan

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2026 - Mechanistic Interpretability for Medical Foundation Models, Strasbourg, France

Can Ambient AI Documentation Withstand a Real-World Stress Test in High-Volume Multilingual Practice? Safety Signals and the Deployment Envelope

Naren Akash, Prateek Pareek, Gnapika Chowdary, Krutali Khokhar, Muzzammil, Juhi Rais, Naveen Reddy, Rakesh Kalapala, Kinjal Saxena and Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy

Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Learning Health Systems (SAIL) 2026, Puerto Rico, USA

Phase-Informed Tool Segmentation for Manual Small-Incision Cataract Surgery

Bhuvan Sachdeva*, Naren Akash*, Tajamul Ashraf, Simon Mueller, Thomas Schultz, Maximilian W. M. Wintergerst, Niharika Singri Prasad, Kaushik Murali and Mohit Jain (* joint first authors)

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025, Daejeon, South Korea

arXiv

Anatomy-Aware Hierarchical Graph Transformer for Multi-Disease Classification in Chest Computed Tomography

Naren Akash, Rudransh Agarwal and Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Under review

SynBADD: Longitudinal Medical Image Imputation via Synthetic Bidirectional Anatomy-Guided Diffeomorphic Deformations

Anirudh Kaushik, Naren Akash and Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Journal paper under review

CheXtriev: Anatomy Centered Representation for Case-Based Retrieval of Chest Radiographs

Naren Akash*, Arihanth Srikar* and Jayanthi Sivaswamy (* joint first authors)

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco

PDF Supplementary Code Project page

Locate-then-Delineate: A Free-Text Guided Approach for Pneumothorax Segmentation in Chest Radiographs

Samruddhi Shastri*, Naren Akash*, Lokesh Gautham and Jayanthi Sivaswamy (* joint first authors)

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024, Athens, Greece

PDF Code Project page

Leveraging Spatial Guidance for Accurate Multi-Organ Segmentation in Abdominal CT

Samruddhi Shastri, Naren Akash and Jayanthi Sivaswamy

AnaVu: A Practical 3D Visualization System for Integrative Teaching of Radiological and Medical Gross Anatomy in Large Classrooms

Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Pawan Harish, Naren Akash, Rudransh Agarwal, Shreyas Palley, Anirudh Kaushik, Priyanka Srivastava, Vuppala Janaki, Doris Yohannan, Sirisha Bandi, Sarada Devi Sattiraju and P J Narayanan

PDF Project page

In the media: Financial Express, Telangana Today, Medical Dialogues

MelDD differential diagnosis of melanoma

Evidence Driven Differential Diagnosis of Malignant Melanoma

Naren Akash, Anirudh Kaushik and Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023 - ISIC Skin Image Analysis, Vancouver, Canada Oral presentation

Springer PDF Slides

A Method to Remove Size Bias in Sub-cortical Structure Segmentation

Mythri Venkatesh*, Alphin Thottupattu*, Naren Akash and Jayanthi Sivaswamy (* joint first authors)

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2022, Kolkata, India

IEEE PDF

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2025 Doctoral Symposium

Springer LNCS volume editors: Naren Akash, Nourhan Bayasi and Amar Kumar

28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025

Springer

Empowering Medical Image Computing and Research Through Early-Career Expertise — Second MICCAI Student Board Workshop, EMERGE 2025

Springer LNCS volume editors: Naren Akash, Cosmin Bercea and Amar Kumar

28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025

Springer

Medical Information Computing — First MICCAI Meets Africa Workshop, MImA 2024, and First MICCAI Student Board Workshop, EMERGE 2024

Springer CCIS volume editors: Udunna Anazodo, Naren Akash, Moritz Fuchs, Celia Cintas, Alessandro Crimi, Tinahse Mutsvangwa, Farouk Dako and Willam Ogallo

27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024

Springer

Working Papers

Stress-testing the safety of ambient AI clinical documentation in high-volume multilingual specialty care

Publications

2026

MeDxAgent: Multi-Agent Consultation for Interactive Medical Diagnosis

X2V: Deformable 2D/3D Registration from Intraoperative X-ray to Volume via Motion Manifold Learning

Do Medical Vision Models Reason About Anatomy? Probing the Spatial Inductive Biases of Learned Visual Representations

Can Ambient AI Documentation Withstand a Real-World Stress Test in High-Volume Multilingual Practice? Safety Signals and the Deployment Envelope

2025

Phase-Informed Tool Segmentation for Manual Small-Incision Cataract Surgery

Anatomy-Aware Hierarchical Graph Transformer for Multi-Disease Classification in Chest Computed Tomography

SynBADD: Longitudinal Medical Image Imputation via Synthetic Bidirectional Anatomy-Guided Diffeomorphic Deformations

2024

CheXtriev: Anatomy Centered Representation for Case-Based Retrieval of Chest Radiographs

Locate-then-Delineate: A Free-Text Guided Approach for Pneumothorax Segmentation in Chest Radiographs

Leveraging Spatial Guidance for Accurate Multi-Organ Segmentation in Abdominal CT

AnaVu: A Practical 3D Visualization System for Integrative Teaching of Radiological and Medical Gross Anatomy in Large Classrooms

2023

Evidence Driven Differential Diagnosis of Malignant Melanoma

2022

A Method to Remove Size Bias in Sub-cortical Structure Segmentation

Edited Conference Proceedings

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2025 Doctoral Symposium

Empowering Medical Image Computing and Research Through Early-Career Expertise — Second MICCAI Student Board Workshop, EMERGE 2025

Medical Information Computing — First MICCAI Meets Africa Workshop, MImA 2024, and First MICCAI Student Board Workshop, EMERGE 2024