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Sameer Antani, PhD

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Sameer Antani, PhD

Tenure Track Investigator, Computational Health Research Branch

Research in reliable, reproducible, and interpretable multimodal machine learning and artificial intelligence using medical images and clinical data to advance health.

Contact Information

Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike MSC 6075 Bethesda, MD 20894

Tel: (301) 435-3218

sameer.antani@nih.gov

Research Interests

Dr. Sameer Antani is a Principal Investigator (Tenure-Track) in the Division of Intramural Research at the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. He earned his PhD and MEng in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and his BE (First Class with Distinction) in Computer Engineering from the Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly University of Pune), India. His research uses medical imaging and clinical data for novel multimodal machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms toward developing reliable, reproducible, and interpretable prediction models with applications in disease screening, diagnostics, risk analysis, and treatment. Dr. Antani is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Senior Member of the SPIE.

Publications

Xue Z, Liang Z, Rajaraman S, Marini N, Antani S. Detecting Oral Cancer Using Tabular Deep Learning. IEEE Int Conf Omnilayer Intell Syst. 2025 Aug;2025. doi: 10.1109/coins65080.2025.11125786. Epub 2025 Aug 22. PubMed PMID: 40933553; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12418227.

Marini N, Liang Z, Rajaraman S, Xue Z, Antani S. Combining Real and Synthetic Data to Overcome Limited Training Datasets in Multimodal Learning. medRxiv. 2025 Jul 17;. doi: 10.1101/2025.07.16.25331662. PubMed PMID: 40791679; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12338939.

Rajaraman S, Liang Z, Marini N, Xue Z, Antani S. The Hidden Threat of Hallucinations in Binary Chest X-ray Pneumonia Classification. Proc IEEE Int Symp Comput Based Med Syst. 2025 Jun;2025:668-673. doi: 10.1109/cbms65348.2025.00138. Epub 2025 Jul 4. PubMed PMID: 40852408; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12369649.

Liu Y, Wijewickrema S, Copson B, Gerard JM, Antani S. Artificial Intelligence Assurance in Head and Neck Surgery: Now and Next. Proc IEEE Int Symp Comput Based Med Syst. 2025 Jun;2025:977-982. doi: 10.1109/cbms65348.2025.00195. Epub 2025 Jul 4. PubMed PMID: 40852407; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12369650.

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