TOGAI
(Transforming Global Health with AI)
TOGAI builds intelligent health technologies for low-resource settings. In a world where over 4.5 billion people lack access to essential healthcare, TOGAI tackles critical gaps in diagnostics, specialist access, and information equity to harness the transformative potential of AI to improve people’s lives.
Through AI-powered task-shifting systems, low-cost diagnostic tools, and accessible health information, TOGAI transforms healthcare delivery in the Global South, making quality care more affordable and widely available.
Research Projects
AI-assisted Handheld Obstetrics Ultrasound Scanning by Non-Experts
AI-assisted Handheld Obstetrics Ultrasound Scanning by Non-Experts
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Healthcare Task-Shifting | Low-Resource AI | Maternal & Reproductive HealthDB
Assessing the Clinical Validity of Blind-Sweep Protocols for AI-Driven Ultrasound
Assessing the Clinical Validity of Blind-Sweep Protocols for AI-Driven Ultrasound
Computer Vision | AI in Maternal & Reproductive Health | Clinical AI ValidationAI-Powered Task-Shifting for High-Quality Fetal Ultrasound Service in Community Healthcare Settings
AI-Powered Task-Shifting for High-Quality Fetal Ultrasound Service in Community Healthcare Settings
Computer Vision | Healthcare Task-Shifting | Low-Resource AI | AI in Maternal & Reproductive HealthRKDB
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AI-Powered Safe Abortion Information Chatbot
Conversational AI | Maternal & Reproductive Health | NLP &Text Analysis | Low-resource NLP | Healthcare AccessAI-Assisted Telehealth and Screening for Vision-, Hearing-, Oral, and Genetic Diseases
AI-Assisted Telehealth and Screening for Vision-, Hearing-, Oral, and Genetic Diseases
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Healthcare Task-Shifting | Clinical Decision Support | Public HealthRKMS
3D Reconstruction from Biplanar X-Ray
3D Reconstruction from Biplanar X-Ray
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | 3D Reconstruction | Clinical Decision Support | Low-Resource AIDBMS
AI-Assisted Diarrheal Parasite Detection with Smartphone Microscopy
AI-Assisted Diarrheal Parasite Detection with Smartphone Microscopy
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Infectious Disease Genomics | Low-Resource AI | Public HealthSTUC
AI-assisted VIA Screening of Cervical Cancer
AI-assisted VIA Screening of Cervical Cancer
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Healthcare Task-Shifting | Clinical Decision SupportOnline Nepali Abusive Text Detection for Intimate Partner Violence Research
Online Nepali Abusive Text Detection for Intimate Partner Violence Research
NLP &Text Analysis | Low-resource NLPRADB
Automatic Spine Curvature Estimation from X-ray Images
Automatic Spine Curvature Estimation from X-ray Images
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Deep Learning | Clinical Decision SupportARRTAC
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Estimating Pesticide Concentration with Smartphone
Estimating Pesticide Concentration with Smartphone
Computer Vision | Low-Resource AI | Environmental MonitoringBGBKDB
Evaluating Nepali Sexual, Reproductive, and Maternal Health (SRMH) Chatbot with Large Language Models (LLMs)
Evaluating Nepali Sexual, Reproductive, and Maternal Health (SRMH) Chatbot with Large Language Models (LLMs)
Conversational AI | Natural Language Processing (Large Language Models) | Maternal & Reproductive Health | Healthcare AccessLead:
DBNVSK
Semi-Supervised Semantic Image Segmentation
Semi-Supervised Semantic Image Segmentation
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Deep LearningDBPU
Uncertainty Estimation in Semantic Segmentation of Ultrasound Images
Uncertainty Estimation in Semantic Segmentation of Ultrasound Images
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Healthcare Task-Shifting | AI RobustnessAKDBLD
Geometric Deep Learning on Graphs for EEG Datasets
Geometric Deep Learning on Graphs for EEG Datasets
Deep Learning | Neuroscience | Clinical Decision Support | Low-Resource AIDBHB
Genomic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Nepal
Genomic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Nepal
Computational Genomics | Infectious Disease GenomicsDRDBSC
GI Tract Anomaly Detection from Endoscopy Images
GI Tract Anomaly Detection from Endoscopy Images
Medical Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Deep Learning | Clinical Decision SupportDSDBDB
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Motion Analysis for Clinical Classification of Dystonia Patients using Deep Learning
Motion Analysis for Clinical Classification of Dystonia Patients using Deep Learning
Computer Vision | Deep Learning | Neuroscience | Clinical Decision SupportDBDASB
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Systems Genomics Modeling of Multi-drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Systems Genomics Modeling of Multi-drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Computational Genomics | Infectious Disease Genomics | Drug Resistance ModelingLead:
DSDRDB
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Members
Current Members
Alumni
Core Member
Dr. Bishesh Khanal
Research Scientist
Prekshya Dawadi
Research Assistant
Bishram Acharya
Research Assistant
Kushal Paudel
Research Assistant
Krischal Khanal
Research Assistant
Nishant Luitel
Research Assistant
Prasiddha Bhandari
Research Assistant
Mahesh Shakya
Research Associate
Angelina Ghimire
Research Assistant
Publications
2025
Transforming healthcare through just, equitable and quality driven artificial intelligence solutions in South Asia
Sushmita Adhikari, Iftikhar Ahmed, Deepak Bajracharya, Bishesh Khanal, Chandrasegarar Solomon, Kapila Jayaratne, Khondaker Abdullah Al Mamum, Muhammad Shamim Hayder Talukder, Sunila Shakya, Suresh Manandhar, Zahid Ali Memon, Moinul Haque Chowdhury, Ihtesham ul Islam, Noor Sabah Rakhshani & M. Imran Khan
npj Digital Medicine (nature)
Peer Reviewed Journal articleTOGAI (Transforming Global Health with AI)
2025
Assistive Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy and Its Impact on Epilepsy Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Nabin Koirala, Shishir Raj Adhikari, Mukesh Adhikari, Taruna Yadav, Abdul Rauf Anwar, Dumitru Ciolac, Bibhusan Shrestha, Ishan Adhikari, Bishesh Khanal, Muthuraman Muthuraman
Brain Sciences (MDPI) 2025
Peer Reviewed Journal articleTOGAI (Transforming Global Health with AI)
2025
Multimodal Lead-Specific Modeling of ECG for Low-Cost Pulmonary Hypertension Assessment
Mohammod N. I. Suvon, Shuo Zhou, Prasun C. Tripathi, Wenrui Fan, Samer Alabed, Bishesh Khanal, Venet Osmani, Andrew J. Swift, Chen (Cherise) Chen, Haiping Lu
2024
NLPineers@ NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Hate speech detection using ensembling of BERT-based models
Anmol Guragain, Nadika Poudel, Rajesh Piryani, Bishesh Khanal
CHiPSAL: Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages. COLING 2025
Peer Reviewed Workshop articleTOGAI (Transforming Global Health with AI)
2024
TuneVLSeg: Prompt Tuning Benchmark for Vision-Language Segmentation Models
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2024
Peer Reviewed Conference articleTOGAI (Transforming Global Health with AI)
