{"id":2173,"date":"2026-08-20T19:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:10:40","slug":"explimed-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/explimed-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"TRACE: SBME Students Bring Explainable Medical AI to EXPLIMED 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>  <!-- Image --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin:0px 0\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sbe2\/2026\/IJCAI_Bremen_Logo-768x294-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:65%;height:auto;border:4px solid #d99f53;margin:0 auto\" src=\"http:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sbe2\/2026\/IJCAI_Bremen_Logo-768x294-1.png\" alt=\"TRACE - EXPLIMED 2026 at IJCAI-ECAI 2026\" \/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Main Announcement --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.8;margin-bottom:10px\">\n  From a graduation project at <strong>SBME<\/strong> to an international AI stage: students <strong>Youssef Afify, Alia Omar, Hamsa Saber, and Hamza Elghonemy<\/strong> have had their work on <strong>explainable AI for medical imaging<\/strong> accepted for <strong style=\"color:#d99f53\">oral presentation at EXPLIMED 2026<\/strong>, the Third Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence for the Medical Domain, held alongside <strong>IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany<\/strong>.\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Project and Team --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.8;margin-top:6px\">\n    Developed by SBME students <strong>Youssef Afify, Alia Omar, Hamsa Saber, and Hamza Elghonemy<\/strong> under the supervision of <strong>Dr. Tamer Basha<\/strong>, the project addresses one of the central challenges in <strong>medical artificial intelligence: making AI decisions transparent and clinically interpretable<\/strong>. The team also received technical guidance from <strong>Abdulrahman M. Selim<\/strong>, an <strong>SBME 2019 graduate<\/strong>, <strong>Omair Shahzad Bhatti<\/strong>, and <strong>Hasan Alam<\/strong> at the <strong>German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)<\/strong>.\n  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Research --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.8;margin-top:6px\">\n    The team developed <strong>TRACE (Temporal Causal Reasoning with Acyclic Concept Explanation)<\/strong>, an explainable AI framework for analyzing longitudinal medical images. Rather than producing a prediction directly from images as a black box, TRACE structures its reasoning through <strong>clinically meaningful concepts and rule-based pathways<\/strong>, allowing the factors behind a prediction to be examined and, when necessary, corrected by clinicians.\n  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Project Features --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.8;margin-top:6px\">\nThe project was extended into a web application that allows radiologists to explore longitudinal <strong>3D MRI scans and segmentation overlays<\/strong>, inspect which clinical variables drove the model&#8217;s decision, and perform <strong>test-time interventions<\/strong> by correcting model-derived concepts and observing how those changes propagate to the final prediction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Workshop Significance --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.8;margin-top:6px\">\n    <strong>EXPLIMED<\/strong> is a specialized international workshop dedicated to <strong>explainable artificial intelligence in medicine<\/strong>. Its 2026 edition is held in conjunction with <strong>IJCAI-ECAI 2026<\/strong>, bringing research on explainability, interpretability, and trustworthy AI into the broader international artificial intelligence research community. The department congratulates the students, their supervisor, and mentors on having their work selected for <strong style=\"color:#d99f53\">oral presentation at EXPLIMED 2026<\/strong>.\n  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Bottom Links --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:10px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.8\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/youssef-afify-aa458b2b2_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AA-i-have-ugcPost-7471632921951494145-Sugz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#x1F4BB; Explore the Project, Poster &amp; Presentation<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a graduation project at SBME to an international AI stage: students Youssef Afify, Alia Omar, Hamsa Saber, and Hamza Elghonemy have had their work on explainable AI for medical imaging accepted for oral presentation at EXPLIMED 2026, the Third Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence for the Medical Domain, held alongside IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,48,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-generalnews","category-homenews","category-studentnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}