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X-GastroAI: explainable gastric screening

A clinician-facing AI pipeline for gastric cancer screening that pairs prediction with interpretable visual explanations.

Sajid presenting the X-GastroAI explainable gastric cancer detection project
Presenting X-GastroAI, a ResNet-50 and Grad-CAM pipeline for interpretable histopathology image classification and gastric cancer screening support.

Why explainability mattered

Medical AI systems cannot stop at a class label. For screening workflows, the model also needs to show why it produced a prediction, where the visual signal came from, and how a user should interpret confidence.

X-GastroAI was built around that principle: combine deep learning inference with Grad-CAM saliency maps so predictions are paired with a visual explanation layer.

Technical highlights

X-GastroAI research poster for explainable gastric cancer detection through deep learning

What I took away

The project reinforced a simple idea: model accuracy is only part of the product. In high-trust workflows, the surrounding system - input handling, explanation, UI clarity, and deployment ergonomics - determines whether the AI can actually be used.

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