SMASH 2026 FR

Accepted Papers

Spotlight

Towards Transparent Reward Design in Clinical Reinforcement Learning
Caro Strickland, Baptiste Bonin, Audrey Durand | Paper
Tracing Bias Propagation Across Subgroups in Federated Learning
Tirathraj Ramburn, Afaf Taik, Farnoosh Ghadiri | Paper
Two for One: Privileged Bilateral Learning for Monocular Retinal Disease Classification
Lisa Y.W. Tang | Paper
Damned if You Do(n't): How Epistemic Technology Spoils Expertise
Ayman Ajaj, Mayur Joshi, Mathieu Bouchard | Paper

Posters

Complementary Vulnerabilities: Auditing and Governing Clinician-LLM Error Overlap
Mohsen Amoei, Kathleen Fraser, Dan Poenaru | Paper
Gated Knowledge-Guided Prototype Transfer for Zero-Support Medical Vision Language Model
Sumaiya Fazal, Rizwan Qureshi, Laleh Behjat, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou | Paper
Query Logs Are Patient Records: An Unguarded Attack Surface in Clinical RAG, and a Privacy-Preserving Pipeline
Louis Tremblay Thibault, Sofiane Azogagh, Marc-Olivier Killijian, Ulrich Aivodji | Paper
Visual Acuity Improvement Prediction in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Hadi Moazen, Melanie Hebert, Alaa Eddine Ayadi, Ali Dirani, Audrey Durand | Paper
From Canon to Nikon: Camera Domain Shift and Potential Equity Implications in Retinal AI
Lisa Y.W. Tang | Paper
Prevalence, Thresholds, and Subgroup Performance Gaps in Clinical Prediction Models Across Five Public Datasets
Zavash Ghorbanpourbaboli, Arina Afshar, Elham Jangravi, Mohammed Ayoub Alaoui Mhamdi, Russell Butler | Paper
Implementing Ambient Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scribes in Hospital-based Specialty Care: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation on Administrative Burden and Clinical Workflows
Nishila Mehta, Emily Ha, Andrew Gordon, Rodica Balaci, Onil Bhattacharya, Geetha Mukerji | Paper
Diagnosing Low-Confidence Patient Profiles via Localized Harmful Covariate Shift Detection
Olivier Lefebvre, Hakima Laribi, Dan Poenaru, Martin Vallieres | Paper
TRACE: Temporal Risk Assessment and Concept Editing for Safer Language Generation
Ankur Garg, Xuemin Yu, Hassan Sajjad, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou | Paper | Full version
MASQ: The Multi-Agent System Questionnaire
Nils Kiele, Niki Mehri, Aaron Arellano, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou | Paper
Beyond Algorithms: Organizing Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Through Expertise, Governance, and Knowledge Infrastructures
Nasrin Sultana, Dhenuka Radhakrishnan, Jamie Strain | Paper
Privacy-Preserving Text Inference for Health-Misinformation Classification and Semantic Retrieval
Jasleen Kaur, Chloe Cachet, Koray Karabina, Jean Belo Klamti, Philippe Lamontagne | Paper
NeuroBuilder: Auditable Agentic Data Curation for Neuro-Foundation Models
Ghazaleh Ranjbaran*, Mahta Ramezanian-Panahi*, Blake Aaron Richards, Irina Rish | Paper
From Extraction Accuracy to Clinical Usefulness: A Human-Centered Evaluation Framework for Source-Traceable Patient Summaries
Alissa Taylor | Paper | Poster
When Engagement Is Not Enough: What Should AI Optimize in Gamified Education?
Takuji Takemoto | Paper
Towards Robust, Performance-Based Contamination Detection for LLMs
Allenna Tang, Jackie Cheung | Paper