Pål Halvorsen

Scientific publications

Papachrysos, Nikolaos; Smedsrud, Pia Helen; Ånonsen, Kim Vidar; Berstad, Tor Jan; Espeland, Håvard; Petlund, Andreas; Hedenström, Per; Halvorsen, Pål ; Varkey, Jonas; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; de Lange, Thomas (2025). A comparative study benchmarking colon polyp with computer-aided detection (CADe) software. DEN Open.
https://doi.org/10.1002/deo2.70061

Brubacher, Sonja P; Powell, Martine; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam ; Cano, Cayetana López; Zohaib Hassan, Syed; Riegler, Michael; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Halvorsen, Pål ; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid (2025). Experts' Views on Artifical Intelligence-Based Child Chatbots to Train Investigative Interviewing Skills. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70048

Lien, Le; Nguyen, Thu; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Halvorsen, Pål ; Nguyen, Binh (2025). Multimodal missing data in healthcare: A comprehensive review and future directions. Computer Science Review. Vol. 56.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2024.100720

Salehi, Pegah; Sheshkal, Sajad Amouei; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Gautam, Sushant ; Shafiee Sabet, Saeed; Johansen, Dag; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Halvorsen, Pål (2025). Comparative Analysis of Audio Feature Extraction for Real-Time Talking Portrait Synthesis. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc9030059

Chatterjee, Ayan; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Ganesh, K.; Halvorsen, Pål (2025). Stress management with HRV following AI, semantic ontology, genetic algorithm and tree explainer. Scientific Reports. Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-87510-w

Jha, Debesh; Sharma, Vanshali; Banik, Debapriya; Bhattacharya, Debayan; Roy, Kaushiki; Hicks, Steven; Tomar, Nikhil Kumar; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Krenzer, Adrian; Ji, Ge-Peng; Poudel, Sahadev; Batchkala, George; Alam, Saruar; Ahmed, Awadelrahman M.A.; Trinh, Quoc-Huy; Khan, Zeshan; Nguyen, Tien-Phat; Shrestha, Shruti; Nathan, Sabari; Gwak, Jeonghwan Gwak; Jha, Ritika Kumari; Zhang, Zheyuan; Schlaefer, Alexander; Bhattacharjee, Debotosh; Bhuyan, M.K.; Das, Pradip K.; Fan, Deng-Ping; Parasa, Sravanthi; Ali, Sharib; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Halvorsen, Pål ; de Lange, Thomas; Bagci, Ulas (2025). Validating polyp and instrument segmentation methods in colonoscopy through Medico 2020 and MedAI 2021 Challenges. Medical Image Analysis. Vol. 99.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2024.103307

Borgli, Hanna; Stensland, Håkon Kvale; Halvorsen, Pål (2025). Automatic Prompt Generation Using Class Activation Maps for Foundational Models: A Polyp Segmentation Case Study. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.3390/make7010022

Boeker, Matthias; Swarbrick, Dana; Côté-Allard, Ulysse; Riegler, Michael ; Halvorsen, Pål ; Hammer, Hugo Lewi (2024). Predictive Modelling of Muscle Fatigue in Climbing. Lienhart, Rainer; Moeslund, Thomas B.; Saito, Hideo (Ed.). MMSports '24: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports. ACM Digital Library.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3689061.368906

Storås, Andrea; Mæland, Steffen; Isaksen, Jonas L; Hicks, Steven Alexander; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Graff, Claus; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Halvorsen, Pål ; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Kanters, Jørgen K (2024). Evaluating gradient-based explanation methods for neural network ECG analysis using heatmaps. 9 p. JAMIA Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Vol. 32.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae280

Salehi, Pegah; Hassan, Syed Zohaib; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid ; Powell, Martine; Johnson, Miriam S. ; Johansen, Dag; Shafiee Sabet, Saeed; Riegler, Michael ; Halvorsen, Pål (2024). A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of 2D and 3D Virtual Environments in Training for Child Interview Skills. 22 p. IEEE Access. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3442297

Research reports

Schroeder, Daniel Thilo ; Langguth, Johannes; Griwodz, Carsten; Halvorsen, Pål ; Kao, Odej (2022). Explaining News Spreading Phenomena in Social Networks : From Data Acquisition and Processing to Network Analysis and Modelling. ACM Digital Library.

Thambawita, Vajira; Jha, Debesh; Riegler, Michael ; Halvorsen, Pål ; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Johansen, Håvard D.; Johansen, Dag (2018). The Medico-Task 2018: Disease Detection in the Gastrointestinal Tract using Global Features and Deep Learning. 3 p. MediaEval 2018, arXiv:1810.13278, Cornell University.

Stensland, Håkon Kvale; Halvorsen, Pål ; Griwodz, Carsten (2015). Processing Multimedia Workloads on Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures. 300 p. Akademika Publishing.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/50618

Leister, Wolfgang; Sutinen, Tiia; Boudko, Svetlana; Marsh, Ian; Griwodz, Carsten; Halvorsen, Pål (2010). ADIMUS - Adaptive Internet Multimedia Streaming - Final Project Report. ISBN: 978-82-539-0536-5. 36 p. Norsk Regnesentral.
http://publications.nr.no/5335/Leister_-_ADIMUS_-_

Halvorsen, Pål ; Griwodz, Carsten; Goebel, Vera Hermine; Plagemann, Thomas Peter (2003). Storage System Support for Multimedia Applications", Research Report No. 307,. ISBN: 82-7368-259-5. 18 p. Universitetet i Oslo.

Dissemination

Papachrysos, Nikolaos; Smedsrud, Pia Helen; Ånonsen, Kim Vidar; Berstad, Tor Jan; Espeland, Håvard; Petlund, Andreas; Hedenström, Per; Halvorsen, Pål ; Varkey, Jonas; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Riegler, Michael ; de Lange, Thomas (2024). A comparative study benchmarking colon polyp detection with CADe software. Endoscopy. Vol. S02.
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0044-1782889

Strand, Aleksander Theo; Gautam, Sushant ; Midoglu, Cise; Halvorsen, Pål (2024). SoccerRAG: Multimodal Soccer Information Retrieval via Natural Queries. CBMI 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMI62980.2024.10859209

Thambawita, Vajira; Hicks, Steven A.; Storås, Andrea; Andersen, Jorunn Marie ; Witczak, Oliwia ; Nguyen, Thu; Haugen, Trine B. ; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Riegler, Michael ; Halvorsen, Pål (2023). Medico multimedia task at MedialEval: transparent tracking of spermatozoa. 22nd European Testis Workshop. European Testis Workshops/EMBO.

Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hicks, Steven; Storås, Andrea; Andersen, Jorunn Marie ; Witczak, Oliwia ; Haugen, Trine B. ; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Nguyen, Thu; Halvorsen, Pål ; Riegler, Michael Alexander (2023). Medico Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2022: Transparent Tracking of Spermatozoa. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
https://2022.multimediaeval.com/paper5501.pdf

Fineide, Fredrik; Storås, Andrea; Magnø, Morten Schjerven; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Chen, Xiangjun; Khan, Ayyad Ahmad Zartasht; Halvorsen, Pål ; Utheim, Tor Paaske ; Riegler, Michael Alexander (2023). Predicting the degree of meibomian gland dropout with artificial intelligence. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.

Storås, Andrea; Fineide, Fredrik; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Khan, Ayyad Ahmad Zartasht; Magnø, Morten Schjerven; Chen, Xiangjun; Halvorsen, Pål ; Utheim, Tor Paaske ; Riegler, Michael Alexander (2023). Using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to explore factors affecting meibomian gland (MG) dropout. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.

Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid ; Sabet, Saeed; Riegler, Michael A; Halvorsen, Pål ; Johnson, Miriam Sinkerud; Lamb, Michael E.; Powell, Martine B.; Quas, Jodi; Hassan, Syed Zohaib; Salehi, Pegah; Olimb, Ingvild (2023). Training Interviewing Skills with a Talking AI-Driven Child Avatar. The 38th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment. Chadwick Center.

Thambawita, Vajira L B; Storås, Andrea; Huynh, Tuan-Luc; Nguyen, Hai-Dang; Tran, Minh-Triet; Le, Trung-Nghia; Halvorsen, Pål ; Riegler, Michael ; Hicks, Steven; Tran, Thien-Phuc (2023). Medico Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2023: Transparent Tracking of Spermatozoa. MediaEval 2023 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop 2023.

Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hicks, Steven; Storås, Andrea; Witczak, Oliwia ; Andersen, Jorunn Marie ; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Halvorsen, Pål ; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Haugen, Trine B. (2022). P-108 Real-time deep learning based multi object tracking of spermatozoa in fresh samples. Human Reproduction.
https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deac107.104

Hicks, Steven; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Storås, Andrea; Haugen, Trine B. ; Hammer, Hugo Lewi ; Halvorsen, Pål ; Riegler, Michael Alexander ; Stensen, Mette Haug (2022). P-272 Automatic Tracking of the ICSI procedure using Deep Learning. Human Reproduction. Vol. 37.
https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deac107.261