Publications
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🌦️ Weather Prediction & Climate AI
Technical overview and architecture of the FastNet Machine Learning weather prediction model, version 1.0
Daub et al. (incl. Eftekhari N.) · arXiv · 2025
GNN-based global weather forecasting model developed jointly by the Alan Turing Institute and the Met Office.
FastNet: Improving the physical consistency of machine-learning weather prediction models through loss function design
Dunstan et al. (incl. Eftekhari N.) · arXiv · 2025
Exploring loss function modifications — spherical harmonic loss, horizontal gradients, and wind representation — to improve physical realism of ML weather forecasts.
🌊 Marine Biodiversity & Environmental AI
RAPID: Real-time Automated Plankton Identification Dashboard using Edge AI at sea
Pitois SG, Blackwell RE, Close H, Eftekhari N., Giering SLC, Masoudi M, Payne E, Ribeiro J and Scott J · Frontiers in Marine Science · 2025
Edge AI system for real-time automated plankton identification deployed at sea, developed with CEFAS.
🧬 AI in Medicine & Cancer Research
Cross-attention enables deep learning on limited omics-imaging-clinical data of 130 lung cancer patients
Verma S, Magazzù G, Eftekhari N., et al. · Cell Reports Methods · 2024
Multimodal deep learning for personalised survival prediction in lung cancer using cross-attention on small omics-imaging-clinical datasets.
Microaneurysm detection in fundus images using a two-step convolutional neural network
Eftekhari N., Pourreza H., Masoudi M., Ghiasi-Shirazi K., Saeedi E. · BioMedical Engineering OnLine · 2019
Two-stage CNN approach for early detection of diabetic retinopathy via microaneurysm detection in retinal fundus images.
Computer Aided Detection for Pulmonary Embolism Challenge (CAD-PE)
González G. et al. (incl. Eftekhari N.) · arXiv · 2020
Benchmark challenge for automated pulmonary embolism detection in CTA images.
A dataset for Computer-Aided Detection of Pulmonary Embolism in CTA images
Masoudi M., Pourreza H., Eftekhari N., et al. · arXiv · 2017
Dataset and benchmark for pulmonary embolism detection using computed tomography angiography.
📘 PhD Thesis
Multimodal Data Integration for Cancer Survival Prediction
Eftekhari N. · Teesside University · 2023