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The measurement of dietary species richness reveals that a higher consumption of dietary fibre, fish, fruits and vegetables, is associated with greater food biodiversity in UK diets. (2025)
Journal Article
ACEVES-MARTINS, M., LÖFSTEDT, A., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., ZANDSTRA, E.H., WANDERS, A.J. and DE ROOS, B. 2025. The measurement of dietary species richness reveals that a higher consumption of dietary fibre, fish, fruits and vegetables, is associated with greater food biodiversity in UK diets. Public health nutrition [online], Accepted manuscript. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980025000473

We determined whether Dietary Species Richness (DSR) i) can be robustly measured using four-day food intake data, ii) is dependent on sociodemographic characteristics, and iii) is associated with diet quality. The National Diet and Nutrition Survey (... Read More about The measurement of dietary species richness reveals that a higher consumption of dietary fibre, fish, fruits and vegetables, is associated with greater food biodiversity in UK diets..

Socioeconomic determinants of overweight and obesity among Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta‐analysis (2025)
Journal Article
ACEVES-MARTINS, M., GUTIERREZ-GÓMEZ, Y.Y. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2025. Socioeconomic determinants of overweight and obesity among Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity reviews [online], Early View, article number e13926. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13926

Socioeconomic status (SES) has widely been studied as a potential risk factor for obesity among children and adolescents. Nevertheless, SES determinants are rarely contextualized within a country's situation. This work aimed to identify SES factors a... Read More about Socioeconomic determinants of overweight and obesity among Mexican children and adolescents: systematic review and meta‐analysis.

Understanding disagreement between humans and machines in XAI: robustness, fidelity, and region-based explanations in automatic neonatal pain assessment. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PIRIE, C., FERREIRA, L.A., COUTRIN, G.A.S., CARLINI, L.P., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., BARROS, M.C.M., GUINSBURG, R., THOMAZ, C.E., NOBRE, R. and WIRATUNGA, N. Understanding disagreement between humans and machines in XAI: robustness, fidelity, and region-based explanations in automatic neonatal pain assessment. [2025]. To be presented at the 3rd World conference on eXplainable artificial intelligence 2025, 9-11 July 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers a promising approach to automating neonatal pain assessment, improving consistency and objectivity in clinical decision-making. However, differences between how humans and AI models perceive and explain pain-relate... Read More about Understanding disagreement between humans and machines in XAI: robustness, fidelity, and region-based explanations in automatic neonatal pain assessment..

Deep learning for digitising complex engineering drawings. (2024)
Thesis
JAMIESON, L. 2024. Deep learning for digitising complex engineering drawings. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2795656

Vast amounts of documents are still commonly stored in undigitised formats. Consequently, the data they contain cannot be used to its full potential, as substantial manual effort is required to analyse it. Amongst these documents, engineering drawing... Read More about Deep learning for digitising complex engineering drawings..

Extended results for: enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2024. Extended results for: enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. In Martin, K., Salimi, P. and Wijayasekara, V. (eds.). Proceedings of the 2024 SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) REALLM (Reasoning, explanation and applications of large language models) workshop (SICSA REALLM workshop 2024), 17 October 2024, Aberdeen, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3822Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 11-18. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3822/short1.pdf

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a foundational element in medical research, playing a crucial role in shaping healthcare policies and clinical decision-making. However, the rigorous processes required for EBM, particularly during the abstract screen... Read More about Extended results for: enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models..

Few-shot symbol detection in engineering drawings. (2024)
Journal Article
JAMIESON, L., ELYAN, E. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2024. Few-shot symbol detection in engineering drawings. Applied artificial intelligence [online], 38(1), article number e2406712. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2024.2406712

Recently, there has been significant interest in digitizing engineering drawings due to their complexity and practical benefits. Symbol digitization, a critical aspect in this field, is challenging as utilizing Deep Learning-based methods to recogniz... Read More about Few-shot symbol detection in engineering drawings..

Enhancing systematic reviews: an in-depth analysis on the impact of active learning parameter combinations for biomedical abstract screening. (2024)
Journal Article
OFORI-BOATENG, R., TRUJILLO-ESCOBAR, T.G., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2024. Enhancing systematic reviews: an in-depth analysis on the impact of active learning parameter combinations for biomedical abstract screening. Artificial intelligence in medicine [online], 157, article number 102989. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2024.102989

Systematic Review (SR) are foundational to influencing policies and decision-making in healthcare and beyond. SRs thoroughly synthesise primary research on a specific topic while maintaining reproducibility and transparency. However, the rigorous nat... Read More about Enhancing systematic reviews: an in-depth analysis on the impact of active learning parameter combinations for biomedical abstract screening..

A multiclass imbalanced dataset classification of symbols from piping and instrumentation diagrams. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
JAMIESON, L., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and ELYAN, E. 2024. A multiclass imbalanced dataset classification of symbols from piping and instrumentation diagrams. In Barney Smith, E.H., Liwicki, M. and Peng, L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International conference on Document analysis and recognition 2024 (ICDAR 2024), 30 August - 4 September 2024, Athens, Greece. Lecture notes in computer science, 14804. Cham: Springer [online], part 1, pages 3-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70533-5_1

Engineering diagrams provide rich source of information and are widely used across different industries. Recent years have seen growing research interest in developing solutions for processing and analysing these diagrams using wide range of image-pr... Read More about A multiclass imbalanced dataset classification of symbols from piping and instrumentation diagrams..

Enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRANTUGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2024. Enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models. In Finkelstein, J., Moskovitch, R. and Parimbelli, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Artificial intelligence in medicine international conference 2024 (AIME 2024), 9-12 July 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Lecture notes in computer science, 14844. Cham: Springer [online], part I, pages 261-272. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66538-7_26

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) represents a cornerstone in medical research, guiding policy and decision-making. However, the robust steps involved in EBM, particularly in the abstract screening stage, present significant challenges to researchers. Nu... Read More about Enhancing abstract screening classification in evidence-based medicine: incorporating domain knowledge into pre-trained models..

Towards fully automated processing and analysis of construction diagrams: AI-powered symbol detection. (2024)
Journal Article
JAMIESON, L., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. and ELYAN, E. 2025. Towards fully automated processing and analysis of construction diagrams: AI-powered symbol detection. International journal on document analysis and recognition [online], 28, pages 71-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-024-00492-9

Construction drawings are frequently stored in undigitised formats and consequently, their analysis requires substantial manual effort. This is true for many crucial tasks, including material takeoff where the purpose is to obtain a list of the equip... Read More about Towards fully automated processing and analysis of construction diagrams: AI-powered symbol detection..

Towards the automation of systematic reviews using natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning: a comprehensive review. (2024)
Journal Article
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2024. Towards the automation of systematic reviews using natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning: a comprehensive review. Artificial intelligence review [online], 57(8), article number 200. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10844-w

Systematic reviews (SRs) constitute a critical foundation for evidence-based decision-making and policy formulation across various disciplines, particularly in healthcare and beyond. However, the inherently rigorous and structured nature of the SR pr... Read More about Towards the automation of systematic reviews using natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning: a comprehensive review..

A zero-shot monolingual dual stage information retrieval system for Spanish biomedical systematic literature reviews. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C. 2024. A zero-shot monolingual dual stage information retrieval system for Spanish biomedical systematic literature reviews. In Duh, K., Gomez, H. and Bethard, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2024 North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference (NAACL 2024): human language technologies, 16-21 June 2024, Mexico City, Mexico. Stroudsburg, PA: ACL [online], volume 1: long papers, pages 3725-3736. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.206

Systematic Reviews (SRs) are foundational in healthcare for synthesising evidence to inform clinical practices. Traditionally skewed towards English-language databases, SRs often exclude significant research in other languages, leading to potential b... Read More about A zero-shot monolingual dual stage information retrieval system for Spanish biomedical systematic literature reviews..

A review of deep learning methods for digitisation of complex documents and engineering diagrams. (2024)
Journal Article
JAMIESON, L., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. and ELYAN, E. 2024. A review of deep learning methods for digitisation of complex documents and engineering diagrams. Artificial intelligence review [online], 57(6), article number 136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10779-2

This paper presents a review of deep learning on engineering drawings and diagrams. These are typically complex diagrams, that contain a large number of different shapes, such as text annotations, symbols, and connectivity information (largely lines)... Read More about A review of deep learning methods for digitisation of complex documents and engineering diagrams..

Two-layer ensemble of deep learning models for medical image segmentation. (2024)
Journal Article
DANG, T., NGUYEN, T.T., MCCALL, J., ELYAN, E. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2024. Two-layer ensemble of deep learning models for medical image segmentation. Cognitive computation [online], 16(3), pages 1141-1160. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-024-10257-5

One of the most important areas in medical image analysis is segmentation, in which raw image data is partitioned into structured and meaningful regions to gain further insights. By using Deep Neural Networks (DNN), AI-based automated segmentation al... Read More about Two-layer ensemble of deep learning models for medical image segmentation..

Student interaction with a virtual learning environment: an empirical study of online engagement behaviours during and since the time of COVID-19. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
JOHNSTON, P., ZARB, M. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2023. Student interaction with a virtual learning environment: an empirical study of online engagement behaviours during and since the time of COVID-19. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2023),18-21 October 2023, College Station, TX, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 10343048. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/fie58773.2023.10343048

This paper presents an experience report of online attendance and associated behavioural patterns during a module in the first complete semester undertaken fully online in the autumn of 2020, and the corresponding module deliveries in 2021 and 2022.... Read More about Student interaction with a virtual learning environment: an empirical study of online engagement behaviours during and since the time of COVID-19..

Robust cardiac segmentation corrected with heuristics. (2023)
Journal Article
CERVANTES-GUZMÁN, A., MCPHERSON, K., OLVERES, J., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., ROBLES, F.T., ELYAN, E. and ESCALANTE-RAMÍREZ, B. 2023. Robust cardiac segmentation corrected with heuristics. PLoS ONE [online], 18(10), article e0293560. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293560

Cardiovascular diseases related to the right side of the heart, such as Pulmonary Hypertension, are some of the leading causes of death among the Mexican (and worldwide) population. To avoid invasive techniques such as catheterizing the heart, improv... Read More about Robust cardiac segmentation corrected with heuristics..

Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
OFORI-BOATENG, R., ACEVES-MARTINS, M., JAYNE, C., WIRATUNGA, N. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2023. Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation. Porcedia computer science [online], 222: selected papers from the 2023 International Neural Network Society workshop on deep learning innovations and applications (INNS DLIA 2023), co-located with the 2023 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), 18-23 June 2023, Gold Coast, Australia, pages 114-126. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.08.149

Systematic Review (SR) presents the highest form of evidence in research for decision and policy-making. Nonetheless, the structured steps involved in carrying out SRs make it demanding for reviewers. Many studies have projected the abstract screenin... Read More about Evaluation of attention-based LSTM and Bi-LSTM networks for abstract text classification in systematic literature review automation..

AGREE: a feature attribution aggregation framework to address explainer disagreements with alignment metrics. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PIRIE, C., WIRATUNGA, N., WIJEKOON, A. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2023. AGREE: a feature attribution aggregation framework to address explainer disagreements with alignment metrics. In Malburg, L. and Verma, D. (eds.) Workshop proceedings of the 31st International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR-WS 2023), 17 July 2023, Aberdeen, UK. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3438. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 184-199. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3438/paper_14.pdf

As deep learning models become increasingly complex, practitioners are relying more on post hoc explanation methods to understand the decisions of black-box learners. However, there is growing concern about the reliability of feature attribution expl... Read More about AGREE: a feature attribution aggregation framework to address explainer disagreements with alignment metrics..

Digital transformation for offshore assets: a deep learning framework for weld classification in remote visual inspections. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
TORAL-QUIJAS, L.A., ELYAN, E., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and STANDER, J. 2023. Digital transformation for offshore assets: a deep learning framework for weld classification in remote visual inspections. In Iliadis, L, Maglogiannis, I., Alonso, S., Jayne, C. and Pimenidis, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 24th International conference on engineering applications of neural networks (EAAAI/EANN 2023), 14-17 June 2023, León, Spain. Communications in computer and information science, 1826. Cham: Springer [online], pages 217-226. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34204-2_19

Inspecting circumferential welds in caissons is a critical task for ensuring the safety and reliability of structures in the offshore industry. However, identifying and classifying different types of circumferential welds can be challenging in subsea... Read More about Digital transformation for offshore assets: a deep learning framework for weld classification in remote visual inspections..

A novel application of machine learning and zero-shot classification methods for automated abstract screening in systematic reviews. (2023)
Journal Article
MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., JAYNE, C., ELYAN, E. and ACEVES-MARTINS, M. 2023. A novel application of machine learning and zero-shot classification methods for automated abstract screening in systematic reviews. Decision analytics journal [online], 6, article 100162. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2023.100162

Zero-shot classification refers to assigning a label to a text (sentence, paragraph, whole paper) without prior training. This is possible by teaching the system how to codify a question and find its answer in the text. In many domains, especially he... Read More about A novel application of machine learning and zero-shot classification methods for automated abstract screening in systematic reviews..