Kathryn Harris

PlumageParts: A fine-grained avian plumage segmentation dataset and benchmark for ecological image analysis

PlumageParts provides a dataset of 4,705 bird images annotated for nine plumage regions and benchmarks segmentation models, achieving 84.01% mean Intersection over Union with a frozen DINOv3 encoder.

The avian colourscape is disproportionately threatened by species extinctions

The paper uses citizen science and deep learning to show that losing threatened bird species will disproportionately reduce avian plumage diversity, especially in tropical regions.

Genetics of Unexplained Sudden Cardiac Death in Adult Caucasian and African American Individuals Living in the State of Maryland

This study examines the association between pathogenic or likely pathogenic genetic variants in cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia genes and unexplained sudden cardiac death in adults with no gross pathological findings.