4.1CVMay 23
Phase-Aware Wavelet-Based-Scattering Encoder-Decoder for Dense PredictionsGhassen Marrakchi, Basarab Matei
Scattering transforms achieve Lipschitz stability and translation invariance, but dense prediction tasks require preserving spatial structure lost in global averaging. We propose Phase-Aware Scattering Encoder-Decoder, which restores this information by explicitly preserving phase in skip connections. On image denoising (BSD68), breaking translation invariance improves PSNR by $+2.17$~dB; phase preservation adds $+1.03$~dB. A novel spatial shuffling ablation ($-1.26$~dB penalty) demonstrates phase encodes location-dependent structure. We conduct a preliminary extensibility study on a second dense prediction task (ISIC skin lesion segmentation), with full cross-validation as ongoing work. This work advances principled wavelet-deep learning integration, showing how phase information complements scattering's stability-expressiveness trade-off in pixel-level prediction.
4.5AIJul 7
The Large Cancer Assistant (LCA): A Model-Agnostic Orchestration Framework for Scalable Clinical Decision Support in OncologyGhassen Marrakchi, Basarab Matei
- Objective: Multimodal deep learning models in oncology are currently limited by monolithic designs that rigidly couple data ingestion, clinical routing, and artificial intelligence (AI) inference. To address this inflexibility, we propose the Large Cancer Assistant (LCA), a model-agnostic, post-hoc orchestration framework designed for scalable clinical decision support. - Methods: The LCA is mathematically formalized as a 7-tuple architecture grounded in the principle of Algorithmic Impermeability, ensuring the orchestration logic remains strictly independent of underlying black-box AI models. We introduce the Entry Theory, leveraging Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) to standardize multimodal patient data along distinct structural and medical axes. The system dynamically orchestrates data via a Cancer Switching Module and intentionally isolates the core AI execution from volatile hospital IT infrastructures by outputting a Standardized Intermediate Payload (SIP). - Results: A Proof of Concept (PoC) validated the orchestration logic across four technical scenarios. The framework executed a nominal flow with negligible orchestration overhead. It empirically demonstrated algorithmic impermeability by maintaining an invariant routing projection during AI model swaps, and it validated strict failure-safety by achieving a 100\% recall rate in generating targeted Supplementary Data Requests (SDR) under injected data anomalies. Multi-protocol execution capability was also successfully verified. - Conclusion: By structurally decoupling multimodal ingestion from feature inference, the LCA provides a highly adaptable and modular orchestration foundation. The SIP establishes a clear architectural boundary, natively setting the stage for downstream Electronic Medical Record (EMR) interoperability as an independent future paradigm.