Ariel Soares Teles

Multimodal LLMs for Leprosy Diagnostic Support: Evaluating Performance and Healthcare Professionals’ Trust and Acceptance

Leprosy remains a major public health challenge in high-burden regions, where its clinical similarity to other dermatoses and reliance on clinical assessment can contribute to delayed diagnosis. Although multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential for dermatologi...

Inclusion and assistive technologies in disability rights legislation: a cross-country NLP-based comparative analysis

Abstract This study analyzes and compares the thematic structures of two landmark disability rights laws: the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Lei Brasileira de Inclusão da Pessoa com Deficiência (Brazilian Law of Inclusion, BLI; Law No. 13.146/2015), to explore how...