publications

2026

1. NEURONTO

   Psychiatric and Substance-Use History Changes LLM Recommendations in Counterfactual Cases derived from MIMIC-IV Data

   Abhishek Singh Dhadwal

   Oct 2026

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   Clinicians sometimes attribute a patient’s physical symptoms to their psychiatric or substance-use diagnosis (diagnostic overshadowing). We tested whether language models do the same. Using 450 real emergency department encounters from MIMIC-IV, we wrote each case with the patient’s recorded psychiatric and substance-use history hidden or shown, and had 14 language models produce 25,200 structured emergency plans. With the history shown, models said psychiatric factors were contributing in 39% of plans, against 6% with it hidden, even though 297 of 300 patients in the main arm had a medical diagnosis. The medical assessment held: the recorded diagnosis stayed on the model’s differential (81% vs 80%), and triage and disposition did not shift. Built-in controls showed that changes to test orders were noise, since a one-word edit to the prompt changed tests as often as the real history did (58% vs 58%). Hiding the history removed psychiatric safety care, which left the plan in 58.5% of at-risk cases against 32.2% after the one-word edit.

2. PeerJ CS

   A privacy-preserving framework for continuous mobile authentication using digital twins and multimodal biometrics

   Abhishek Singh Dhadwal , and Aditya Ranjit Kotwal

   PeerJ Computer Science, Oct 2026

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3. ACI

   Assessing the Effectiveness and Scalability of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource-Based Granular Data Segmentation Technology

   Preston Lee, Abhishek Singh Dhadwal, Martha Kaiser, and 6 more authors

   Applied Clinical Informatics, May 2026

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4. Thesis

   An Interdisciplinary Framework for High-Throughput, Deterministic Segmentation of Sensitive Health Records in HL7 FHIR

   Abhishek Singh Dhadwal

   Arizona State University, May 2026

   Master’s thesis. ProQuest publication number 32676530

2025

1. AMIA

   FHIR-Based Visual Simulation of Consent-Driven Granular Data Segmentation

   Preston Lee, Abhishek Singh Dhadwal, and Adela Grando

   Nov 2025

   Demonstration of SHARES consent-driven segmentation and visualization

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2. TS4H

   4 Hz, 4 Pages: Just-in-Time Substance Use Relapse Risk Detection from Wearable Time Series Data

   Abhishek Singh Dhadwal

   In NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Learning from Time Series for Health (TS4H), Dec 2025

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3. FHIR-Based Data Segmentation for Substance Use Disorders: Current Landscape and the Promise of Large Language Models

   Abhishek Singh Dhadwal

   The Medical Tech Magazine, Dec 2025

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2023

1. IJAIT

   Multimodal Depression Detection: Using Fusion Strategies with Smart Phone Usage and Audio-visual Behavior

   Ravi Prasad Thati, Abhishek Singh Dhadwal, Praveen Kumar, and 1 more author

   International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Dec 2023

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   The problem of detecting depression is multi-faceted because of variability in depressive symptoms caused by individual differences. The variations can be seen in historical information (like decreased physical activity etc.) and also in verbal/non-verbal behaviors (like lower pitch, downward eye gaze etc.). The primary goal of this research is to develop a novel classification system for diagnosing depression that considers both historical information and also verbal/non-verbal behaviors. For this purpose, we created a realworld multimodal dataset of depressed and non-depressed subjects with fourteen-day real-time smartphone usage records and audio-visual recordings. We extracted numerous features related to physiological/physical activity from smartphone usage records to capture historical information and features like pitch and eye gaze (verbal and non-verbal manifestations) from audio-visual clues. We experimented with early fusion using Decision trees classifier (along with several feature selection strategies) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with several late fusion methods. Then, we conducted a comparative study among both fusion strategies. Our findings showed that SVM classifier using late fusion strategy achieves best accuracy of 89%. In addition, a popular benchmarking multimodal dataset (DAIC-WOZ database) is used to further validate the effectiveness of our approach by fusing multi-faceted feature vectors for depression detection.

2022

1. MTAP

   A novel multi-modal depression detection approach based on mobile crowd sensing and task-based mechanisms

   Ravi Prasad Thati, Abhishek Singh Dhadwal, Praveen Kumar, and 1 more author

   Multimedia Tools and Applications, Apr 2022

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   Depression has become a global concern, and COVID-19 also has caused a big surge in its incidence. Broadly, there are two primary methods of detecting depression: Task-based and Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) based methods. These two approaches, when integrated, can complement each other. This paper proposes a novel approach for depression detection that combines real-time MCS and task-based mechanisms. We aim to design an end-to-end machine learning pipeline, which involves multimodal data collection, feature extraction, feature selection, fusion, and classification to distinguish between depressed and non-depressed subjects. For this purpose, we created a real-world dataset of depressed and non-depressed subjects. We experimented with: various features from multi-modalities, feature selection techniques, fused features, and machine learning classifiers such as Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines (SVM), etc. for classification. Our findings suggest that combining features from multiple modalities perform better than any single data modality, and the best classification accuracy is achieved when features from all three data modalities are fused. Feature selection method based on Pearson’s correlation coefficients improved the accuracy in comparison with other methods. Also, SVM yielded the best accuracy of 86%. Our proposed approach was also applied on benchmarking dataset, and results demonstrated that the multimodal approach is advantageous in performance with state-of-the-art depression recognition techniques.