NeuroPlast: a learnable activation function evaluated under knowledge distillation for medical image classification

Fabrice Vaussenat, Abhiroop Bhattacharya, Julie Payette, Thibaut Desmettre, Alireza Saidi, Ghyslain Gagnon, Sylvain G. Cloutier

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DOI: 10.3389/frai.2026.1849571
Published: 2026-08-31
Container: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
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@article{allodium:10.3389/frai.2026.1849571,
  title = {NeuroPlast: a learnable activation function evaluated under knowledge distillation for medical image classification},
  author = {Fabrice Vaussenat and Abhiroop Bhattacharya and Julie Payette and Thibaut Desmettre and Alireza Saidi and Ghyslain Gagnon and Sylvain G. Cloutier},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence},
  doi = {10.3389/frai.2026.1849571},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2026.1849571}
}

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Vaussenat, F., Bhattacharya, A., Payette, J., Desmettre, T., Saidi, A., Gagnon, G., & Cloutier, S. G. (2026). NeuroPlast: a learnable activation function evaluated under knowledge distillation for medical image classification. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2026.1849571

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