publications

2025

1. Hallucination-Aware Multimodal Benchmark for Gastrointestinal Image Analysis with Large Vision-Language Models

   Bidur Khanal^*, Sandesh Pokhrel^*, Sanjay Bhandari^*, and 7 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07001, 2025

   Accepted at MICCAI 2025, top 9% of all submissions

   Bib

   @article{khanal2025hallucination,
     title = {Hallucination-Aware Multimodal Benchmark for Gastrointestinal Image Analysis with Large Vision-Language Models},
     author = {Khanal, Bidur and Pokhrel, Sandesh and Bhandari, Sanjay and Rana, Ramesh and Shrestha, Nikesh and Gurung, Ram Bahadur and Linte, Cristian and Watson, Angus and Shrestha, Yash Raj and Bhattarai, Binod},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07001},
     note = {Accepted at MICCAI 2025, top 9% of all submissions},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Out-of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision by Estimating Nearest Centroid Distance Deficit

   Sandesh Pokhrel^*, Sanjay Bhandari^*, Sharib Ali, and 7 more authors

   In Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 2025

   Nominated for Best Paper Award at MIUA 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{pokhrel2025out,
     title = {Out-of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision by Estimating Nearest Centroid Distance Deficit},
     author = {Pokhrel, Sandesh and Bhandari, Sanjay and Ali, Sharib and Lambrou, Tryphon and Nguyen, Anh and Shrestha, Yash Raj and Watson, Angus and Stoyanov, Danail and Gyawali, Prashnna and Bhattarai, Binod},
     booktitle = {Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis},
     pages = {190--200},
     year = {2025},
     organization = {Springer Nature Switzerland Cham},
     note = {Nominated for Best Paper Award at MIUA 2025},
   }

2024

1. DEMI, MICCAI

   Cross-Task Data Augmentation by Pseudo-label Generation for Region Based Coronary Artery Instance Segmentation

   Sandesh Pokhrel^*, Sanjay Bhandari^*, Eduard Vazquez, and 2 more authors

   2024

   Accepted at DEMI, MICCAI 2024

   Bib

   @article{pokhrel2024crosstaskdataaugmentationpseudolabel,
     title = {Cross-Task Data Augmentation by Pseudo-label Generation for Region Based Coronary Artery Instance Segmentation},
     author = {Pokhrel, Sandesh and Bhandari, Sanjay and Vazquez, Eduard and Shrestha, Yash Raj and Bhattarai, Binod},
     year = {2024},
     eprint = {2310.05990},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {eess.IV},
     note = {Accepted at DEMI, MICCAI 2024},
   }

2. DEMI, MICCAI

   TTA-OOD: Test-time Augmentation for Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision

   Sandesh Pokhrel^*, Sanjay Bhandari^*, Eduard Vazquez, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14024, 2024

   Accepted at DEMI, MICCAI 2024

   Bib

   @article{pokhrel2024tta,
     title = {TTA-OOD: Test-time Augmentation for Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision},
     author = {Pokhrel, Sandesh and Bhandari, Sanjay and Vazquez, Eduard and Lambrou, Tryphon and Gyawali, Prashnna and Bhattarai, Binod},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14024},
     year = {2024},
     note = {Accepted at DEMI, MICCAI 2024},
   }

2023

1. Convnextv2 fusion with mask R-CNN for automatic region based coronary artery stenosis detection for disease diagnosis

   Sandesh Pokhrel^*, Sanjay Bhandari^*, Eduard Vazquez, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04749, 2023

   Runner up at ARCADE, MICCAI 2023

   Bib

   @article{pokhrel2023convnextv2,
     title = {Convnextv2 fusion with mask R-CNN for automatic region based coronary artery stenosis detection for disease diagnosis},
     author = {Pokhrel, Sandesh and Bhandari, Sanjay and Vazquez, Eduard and Shrestha, Yash Raj and Bhattarai, Binod},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04749},
     year = {2023},
     note = {Runner up at ARCADE, MICCAI 2023},
   }