Kari Jaaskelainen

SpineBench: A Clinically Salient, Level-Aware Benchmark Powered by the SpineMed-450k Corpus

Quick take: SpineBench: A Clinically Salient, Level-Aware Benchmark Powered by the SpineMed-450k Corpus Spine disorders affect 619 million people globally and are a leading cause of disability, yet AI-assisted diagnosis remains limited by the lack of level-aware, multimodal datasets. Clinical decision-making for spine disorders requires sophisticated reasoning across X-ray, CT,

By Kari Jaaskelainen

UniShield: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Unified Forgery Image Detection and Localization

Quick take: UniShield: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Unified Forgery Image Detection and Localization With the rapid advancements in image generation, synthetic images have become increasingly realistic, posing significant societal risks, such as misinformation and fraud. Forgery Image Detection and Localization (FIDL) thus emerges as essential for maintaining information integrity

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Two kinds of meaning in speech: what you say vs. how you feel

Words carry facts; voices carry feelings. 🎙️🧩😊📊 This study separates descriptive semantics (the content) from expressive semantics (the emotion). After viewing emotional movie segments, participants described their experiences. Findings: descriptive semantics align with intended emotions, while expressive semantics correlate with evoked emotions (valence/arousal). Why it matters: Speech Emotion Recognition can

By Kari Jaaskelainen