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Lauren Higa

Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA;Primary ORCID profile (0000-0002-2958-9133 · 1 paper)Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Lauren HigaiD1 paper · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:fluorescence / live-cell microscopy· 1 Organism:human· 1

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ASD Neuro Agentic (ANA): An Agentic Framework for Feature Discovery and Cross Site Generalization in Autism fMRI Classification

Karim Rahimian, Mohammadamin Mahmanzar, Reyhaneh Bahrayni, Saleha Bayat, Lauren Higa, Kaveh Kavousi, Youping Deng

The paper introduces ANA, an agentic AI framework that improves cross-site generalization in ASD fMRI classification by reducing data leakage and achieving higher accuracy than existing models.

bioRxiv · Nov 10, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics