By Benjamin A Cohen, Jonathan Fhima, Meishar Meisel, Baskin Meital, Luis Filipe Nakayama, Eran Berkowitz and Joachim A Behar URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6579/ae3936 Part of the Lirot.ai project: https://www.aimlab-technion.com/lirot-ai Do we really need “retina-only” foundation models to detect AMD? Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss, and scaling reliable screening from routine retinal photos (digit

This work represents a close collaboration between the following authors: Shany Brimer Biton, Jonathan Sobel, Anat Reiner Benaim, Eran Zvuloni, Ronit Almog, Julien Oster, Izhar Laufer, Ilan Green, Mahmoud Suleiman, Kenta Tsutsui, Leif Sörnmo, and Joachim A. Behar. Publication: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/3049-477X/ae375f Models available on GitHub: https://github.com/aim-lab/arnet2 The collaboration brings together expertise from the Faculty of Biomedical Engin

By Hagai Hamami, Yosef Solewicz, Daniel Zur, Yonatan Kleerekoper and Joachim A. Behar Published paper (IEEE): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11359459 Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11238 Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVCs) are among the most common abnormal heartbeats, yet they are notoriously difficult to detect automatically. Their appearance shifts across patients, lead configurations, sensor types, and recording environments. This variability has long pr

By Jeremy Levy, Noam Ben-Moshe, Uri Shalit, and Joachim A. Behar. Publication: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6579/ae2231/meta Deep learning has changed the way we analyze physiological time-series such as ECG, SpO₂, and PPG signals. Modern neural networks routinely match and sometimes exceed expert performance in clinical tasks, from detecting atrial fibrillation to staging sleep. But there’s a catch: these models often break when moved from one patient popu

Oksenberg et al 2025 Physiol. Meas. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6579/ae2b4b Why Measuring Daytime Sleepiness Is So Hard and How Wearable Technology Could Help Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is far more than feeling a little tired. It’s a physiological state that affects millions of people, impairing attention, slowing reaction time, and increasing the risk of accidents. For patients with sleep disorders like obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), EDS can be the most debilitating