LGMar 21, 2022
A survey on GANs for computer vision: Recent research, analysis and taxonomyGuillermo Iglesias, Edgar Talavera, Alberto Díaz-Álvarez
In the last few years, there have been several revolutions in the field of deep learning, mainly headlined by the large impact of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). GANs not only provide an unique architecture when defining their models, but also generate incredible results which have had a direct impact on society. Due to the significant improvements and new areas of research that GANs have brought, the community is constantly coming up with new researches that make it almost impossible to keep up with the times. Our survey aims to provide a general overview of GANs, showing the latest architectures, optimizations of the loss functions, validation metrics and application areas of the most widely recognized variants. The efficiency of the different variants of the model architecture will be evaluated, as well as showing the best application area; as a vital part of the process, the different metrics for evaluating the performance of GANs and the frequently used loss functions will be analyzed. The final objective of this survey is to provide a summary of the evolution and performance of the GANs which are having better results to guide future researchers in the field.
IVJan 9, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Model for Tumoral Clinical Decision Support SystemsGuillermo Iglesias, Edgar Talavera, Jesús Troya Garcìa et al.
Comparative diagnostic in brain tumor evaluation makes possible to use the available information of a medical center to compare similar cases when a new patient is evaluated. By leveraging Artificial Intelligence models, the proposed system is able of retrieving the most similar cases of brain tumors for a given query. The primary objective is to enhance the diagnostic process by generating more accurate representations of medical images, with a particular focus on patient-specific normal features and pathologies. The proposed model uses Artificial Intelligence to detect patient features to recommend the most similar cases from a database. The system not only suggests similar cases but also balances the representation of healthy and abnormal features in its design. This not only encourages the generalization of its use but also aids clinicians in their decision-making processes. We conducted a comparative analysis of our approach in relation to similar studies. The proposed architecture obtains a Dice coefficient of 0.474 in both tumoral and healthy regions of the patients, which outperforms previous literature. Our proposed model excels at extracting and combining anatomical and pathological features from brain \glspl{mr}, achieving state-of-the-art results while relying on less expensive label information. This substantially reduces the overall cost of the training process. This paper provides substantial grounds for further exploration of the broader applicability and optimization of the proposed architecture to enhance clinical decision-making. The novel approach presented in this work marks a significant advancement in the field of medical diagnosis, particularly in the context of Artificial Intelligence-assisted image retrieval, and promises to reduce costs and improve the quality of patient care using Artificial Intelligence as a support tool instead of a black box system.
IRMay 24
First, do no harm: Breaking suicidogenic echo chambers in media recommendationAlberto Díaz-Álvarez, Raúl Lara-Cabrera, Fernando Ortega-Requena et al.
Recommender systems generally optimises user engagement, but this approach is dangerous in mental health contexts. When vulnerable users show signs of suicidal ideation, standard algorithms often trap them in echo chambers of harmful content, worsening their psychological state. In response, we introduce RankAid, a re-ranking method that prioritises clinical safety alongside predictive relevance. It works as an add-on layer to existing models: it penalises risky items and boosts therapeutic content depending on the user's current level of vulnerability. We evaluated this approach using the MovieLens 1M dataset, where items were semantically annotated for clinical risk and therapeutic value using large language models. Our simulations show that our algorithm successfully blocks the recommendation of harmful content during crisis peaks, actively reshaping the feed to support emotional de-escalation. Furthermore, this safety intervention only causes a controlled, acceptable drop in standard accuracy metrics like NDCG. By using asymmetric hyperparameters, RankAid also gives system administrators the flexibility to tune the severity of the intervention based on specific clinical guidelines.
LGApr 1, 2025
Efficient n-body simulations using physics informed graph neural networksVíctor Ramos-Osuna, Alberto Díaz-Álvarez, Raúl Lara-Cabrera
This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate datasets from diverse astrophysical scenarios which are then transformed into graph representations. A custom-designed GNN is trained to predict particle accelerations with high precision. Experiments, conducted on 60 training and 6 testing simulations spanning from 3 to 500 bodies over 1000 time steps, demonstrate that the proposed model achieves extremely low prediction errors-loss values while maintaining robust long-term stability, with accumulated errors in position, velocity, and acceleration remaining insignificant. Furthermore, our method yields a modest speedup of approximately 17% over conventional simulation techniques. These results indicate that the integration of deep learning with traditional physical simulation methods offers a promising pathway to significantly enhance computational efficiency without compromising accuracy.