Usman Afzaal
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
Publications
11
Citations
191
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
6
Publishing since 2021
Usman Afzaal works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medical/agricultural image analysis, with a strong recent focus on computational pathology—using deep learning and vision-language models to analyze tissue slide images for cancer detection, tumor segmentation, and clinical reporting. Earlier work applied similar AI techniques to agricultural problems like weed detection, crop disease identification, and livestock sound analysis. This research is suited for students interested in applying machine learning, especially deep learning and large language models, to real-world image and data analysis problems in healthcare and beyond.
Publication output was sparse and irregular in the earlier part of the decade but has grown noticeably in the last two years, suggesting an increasing and accelerating research pace.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- 436 An AI Pathology Assistant for Clinical Deployment: Evidence-Based Case Retrieval, Outcome Insights, and Automated Reporting
Laboratory Investigation · 2026
- Decoding Clinician Authorial Style: A Style-Informed Pipeline for Clinical Document Summary Generation with Large Language Models
Research Square · 2026
- Dino-NestedUNet: Unlocking Foundation Vision Encoders for Pathology Tumor Bulk Segmentation via Dense Decoding
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- Dino-NestedUNet: Unlocking Foundation Vision Encoders for Pathology Tumor Bulk Segmentation via Dense Decoding
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- HistoChat: Instruction-tuning multimodal vision language assistant for colorectal histopathology on limited data
Patterns · 2025
- Instruction tuning for colorectal histopathology: a multimodal vision-language assistant on human-evaluated data
2025
- Hyperparameter Optimization and Reproducibility in Deep Learning Model Training
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
- Deep Learning Model for Predicting Lung Adenocarcinoma Recurrence from Whole Slide Images
Cancers · 2024
- Transformer-Based Weed Segmentation for Grass Management
Sensors · 2022
- A monophonic cow sound annotation tool using a semi-automatic method on audio/video data
Livestock Science · 2022
- An Instance Segmentation Model for Strawberry Diseases Based on Mask R-CNN
Sensors · 2021
- arXiv (Cornell University)×3
- Sensors×2
- Livestock Science×1
- Patterns×1
- Cancers×1
- Can Cui
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Shuo Han
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Shubham Innani
Computer Science · Indiana University
- Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
- Giovanni Lujan
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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