Publications

Nine manuscripts across medical imaging, biosignal modelling, efficient deep learning, and trustworthy AI — developed at NIMISHES Lab and with collaborators at the Medical University of Vienna, Washington State University, and ELITE Research Lab. PDFs are linked where available.

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Manuscripts
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Published / Accepted
5
Under Review
1
In Preparation

Published

Peer-reviewed and indexed on IEEE Xplore.

Published
[C1]Video-based Driver Distraction Detection using Transfer Learning: Bangladesh Perspective

M. M. Kabir, M. A. Nawar, M. I. Remon, N. K. Paul, H. Bhuiyan, and M. M. Hoque

Int. Conf. on Advances in Computing, Communication, Electrical, and Smart Systems (iCACCESS), 2024 · IEEE Xplore

Transfer-learning approach to driver distraction recognition from in-vehicle video, evaluated on Bangladeshi road conditions.

Accepted — Conference Papers

Accepted for presentation at IEEE and international conferences in 2026.

Accepted
[C2]SleepEffFormer: Efficient CNN-Transformer with Transition-Aware Smoothing for Single-Channel EEG Sleep Stage Classification

N. K. Paul, M. S. I. Shovo, I. J. Esha, and A. Rahman

5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Biomedical Engineering, Computer and Information Technology for Health (BECITHCON) · Dhaka, Bangladesh, 4–5 Sept. 2026

83.9% accuracy, 78.9% macro-F1 and Cohen’s κ = 0.765 on Sleep-EDF Expanded (78 recordings, subject-wise split), matching AttnSleep with 3–5× fewer parameters (~367K).

Accepted
[C3]WaveFoG: Wavelet-Gated Transformer for Parkinson’s Freezing of Gait Detection Using Wearable Accelerometer Signals

M. S. I. Shovo, N. K. Paul, A. Rahman, and I. J. Esha

5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Biomedical Engineering, Computer and Information Technology for Health (BECITHCON) · Dhaka, Bangladesh, 4–5 Sept. 2026

F1 0.875 ± 0.017 and AUPRC 0.833 on the Kaggle TLVMC dataset under subject-independent ten-fold cross-validation — up to +5.4 pp F1 over CNN, Bi-LSTM, and Transformer baselines.

Accepted
[C4]DR-LiteNet: A Lightweight Explainable Hybrid CNN Framework for Imbalanced Diabetic Retinopathy Grading via Adaptive SMOTE Fusion

N. K. Paul, M. S. I. Shovo, A. Chowdhury, and I. J. Esha

1st Int. Conf. on Next-Generation Electrical & Electronics, Computer Systems, and Technologies (iCONEECT) · Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 25–26 Sept. 2026

88.77% accuracy and QWK 0.884 on APTOS 2019 with only 4.69M parameters, outperforming ResNet50 (23.5M) while providing Grad-CAM explanations.

Under Review

Submitted to IEEE conferences and peer-reviewed journals.

Under Review
[C5]AWEF-Net: An Attention-Weighted Ensemble Fusion Framework for Multi-Class Pulmonary Disease Classification from Chest Radiographs

N. K. Paul et al., NIMISHES Lab

29th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2026

96.3% macro-F1 and 97.1% COVID-19 recall on the COVID-19 Radiography Database (21,165 images), a +1.4 pp gain over the strongest fixed-fusion baseline at under 0.6% extra parameters.

Under Review
[C6]PDGuard: A CNN-BiLSTM Attention Network for Wearable IMU-Based Parkinson’s Disease Detection

N. K. Paul et al., NIMISHES Lab

29th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2026

88.34% accuracy and pooled ROC-AUC 0.918 on the PADS cohort (469 participants) under subject-disjoint folds; 1.24M parameters at 18.3 ms per window on CPU.

Under ReviewQ1IF 7.7
[J1]LCM-UNet: A Reparameterizable Local-Compensated Mamba U-Net for Skin Lesion Segmentation

M. S. I. Shovo, N. K. Paul, and K. Morol

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI) · with ELITE Research Lab

Ultra-compact state-space segmentation at 34,180 parameters and 0.06 GFLOPs after reparameterization, improving IoU and DSC on ISIC 2017/2018 at identical inference cost.

Under ReviewQ1IF 4.2
[J2]Anomaly-Aware ForensiBlock: Explainable Behavioral Monitoring for Digital Evidence Access

A. J. Akbarfam, N. K. Paul, and S. Ismail

IEEE Access · with Washington State University

Real-time behavioral anomaly scoring over blockchain evidence access with asynchronous TreeSHAP explanations: AUROC 0.953 on CERT r4.2 at 9.37 ms mean scoring overhead.

Under ReviewQ1IF 2.8
[J3]BGD-SF PolySegNet: Boundary-Guided Dynamic Selective Fusion Network for Robust Polyp Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images

N. K. Paul, S. Maherin, and M. Akter

PLOS ONE

Dice 0.887 / IoU 0.839 at 35 FPS, with +15.7% Boundary-F1 over the strongest CNN baselines and external validation on CVC-ClinicDB, CVC-ColonDB, ETIS-Larib, and CVC-300.

In Preparation

Workshop manuscript in preparation. Not circulated publicly — please email me and the authors will gladly share a copy on request.

In Preparation
[W1]CoMAF-Polyp: Calibrated Reliability-Aware Fusion of Specialist and Foundation Pseudo-Labels for Semi-Supervised Polyp Segmentation

N. K. Paul, M. S. I. Shovo, and C. González

Target: WACV Workshop · with the Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Semi-supervised polyp segmentation that fuses pseudo-labels from a task-specific specialist segmenter and a vision foundation model, weighting each source by calibrated reliability rather than trusting either uniformly.