Research

Selected publications and research outputs.

A curated view of papers, preprints, and research work across my academic and applied interests.

2025

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In review

Structured Cross-Scale Attention for Hierarchical Vision Transformer Backbones

Manuscript under review

This work introduces structured cross-scale attention as an efficient feature-fusion module for RT-DETR-style object detectors. It targets a common limitation of hierarchical vision transformer backbones: preserving useful information across scales without adding unnecessary architectural complexity. Evaluation across COCO, VisDrone, and multiple backbone settings studies the method's effect on accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.

Object DetectionDETRVision TransformersMulti-Scale FeaturesEfficient Detection

2024

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In review

Explaining Transformer-Based Road Damage Detection

Manuscript under review

This work examines road damage detection as a structurally difficult object detection problem: defects are often small, elongated, visually ambiguous, and inconsistently annotated. It compares CNN- and DETR-family detectors on RDD-2022 and uses explainability analysis to study why transformer-based detectors may better fit the visual and spatial demands of road damage detection.

Object DetectionVision TransformersDETRExplainabilityRoad Damage Detection

2022

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Journal article

Spatial feature fusion in 3D convolutional autoencoders for lung tumor segmentation from 3D CT images

Suhail Najeeb, Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 78

A lung tumor segmentation study introducing spatial feature fusion in 3D convolutional autoencoders to improve volumetric CT segmentation performance.

Medical ImagingSegmentationDeep Learning

2019

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Conference paper

A Pipeline for Lung Tumor Detection and Segmentation from CT Scans Using Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks

Shahruk Hossain, Suhail Najeeb, Asif Shahriyar, Zaowad R. Abdullah, M. Ariful Haque

ICASSP 2019 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

An automated pipeline for lung tumor detection and segmentation in 3D CT scans using dilated convolutional neural networks and post-processing.

Medical ImagingSegmentationCNNs

2018

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Conference paper

Classification of Retinal Diseases from OCT scans using Convolutional Neural Networks

Suhail Najeeb, Nowshin Sharmile, Ipsita Sahin, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

2018 10th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

A retinal OCT classification study using region-of-interest detection and convolutional neural networks to identify retinal abnormalities from scans.

Medical ImagingOCTCNNs