Sandesh Pokhrel
- Research Assistant at NAAMII (MMLL research group) under Dr. Binod Bhattarai
- Computer Engineering graduate from IOE Pulchowk Campus
- Focus on multi-modal fusion for health and medical imaging
Sandesh Pokhrel is a Research Assistant at NAAMII's Multi-Modal Learning Lab under the supervision of Dr. Binod Bhattarai. He graduated in Computer Engineering from IOE, Pulchowk Campus, and joined NAAMII in May 2023.
His research focuses on computer vision through multi-modal fusion in health and medical imaging applications. He is passionate about developing AI technology that facilitates people in their everyday lives, particularly in healthcare contexts where AI can improve diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient outcomes.
Publications
2025
Out of Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision by Estimating Nearest Centroid Distance Deficit
Sandesh Pokhrel, Sanjay Bhandari, Sharib Ali, Tryphon Lambrou, Anh Nguyen, Yash Raj Shrestha, Angus Watson, Danail Stoyanov, Prashnna Gyawali, Binod Bhattarai
2025
Hallucination-Aware Multimodal Benchmark for Gastrointestinal Image Analysis with Large Vision-Language Models
Bidur Khanal, Sandesh Pokhrel, Sanjay Bhandari, Ramesh Rana, Nikesh Shrestha, Ram Bahadur Gurung, Cristian Linte, Angus Watson, Yash Raj Shrestha, Binod Bhattarai
2024
TTA-OOD: Test-time Augmentation for Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision
Sandesh Pokhrel, Sanjay Bhandari, Eduard Vazquez, Tryphon Lambrou, Prashnna Gyawali, Binod Bhattarai
2024
Cross-Task Data Augmentation by Pseudo-label Generation for Region Based Coronary Artery Instance Segmentation
Sandesh Pokhrel, Sanjay Bhandari, Eduard Vazquez, Yash Raj Shrestha, Binod Bhattarai