Sanjay Bhandari

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Hi, I am a PhD student at the Kahlert School of Computing at The University of Utah advised by Prof. Shireen Elhabian. I am working at the forefront of medical imaging and its applications through computer vision and AI. My current research focuses on Statistical Shape Analysis and Modelling.

Before joining UofU, I worked at Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research (NAAMII), supervised by Dr. Binod Bhattarai, Ph.D., where my primary research focus was on OOD detection and mitigating hallucinations in large vision-language models.

news

May 13, 2025 Hallucination-Aware Multimodal Benchmark paper early-accepted at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2025.
May 13, 2025 NCDD: Nearest Centroid Distance Deficit for Out-Of-Distribution Detection accepted at Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2025.

Selected Publications

  1. MICCAI
    Hallucination-Aware Multimodal Benchmark for Gastrointestinal Image Analysis with Large Vision-Language Models
    Sanjay Bhandari*, Sandesh Pokhrel*, Bidur Khanal*, and 7 more authors
    (Early Accept) Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 2025
  2. MIUA
    NCDD: Nearest Centroid Distance Deficit for Out-Of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision
    Sanjay Bhandari*, Sandesh Pokhrel*, Sharib Ali, and 7 more authors
    Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 2025
  3. DEMI Workshop
    Cross-Task Data Augmentation by Pseudo-label Generation for Region Based Coronary Artery Instance Segmentation
    Sanjay Bhandari*, Sandesh Pokhrel*, Eduard Vazquez, and 2 more authors
    2nd MICCAI Workshop on Data Engineering in Medical Imaging, 2024
  4. DEMI Workshop
    TTA-OOD: Test-time Augmentation for Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision
    Sanjay Bhandari*, Sandesh Pokhrel*, Eduard Vazquez, and 3 more authors
    2nd MICCAI Workshop on Data Engineering in Medical Imaging, 2024
  5. Preprint
    Convnextv2 fusion with mask R-CNN for automatic region based coronary artery stenosis detection for disease diagnosis
    Sanjay Bhandari*, Sandesh Pokhrel*, Eduard Vazquez, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2023