Measuring and predicting where and when pathologists focus their visual attention while grading whole slide images of cancer.

Gregory J. Zelinsky http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/psychology/index.php?people/faculty/gregory_zelinsky http://www.psychology.stonybrook.edu/gzelinsky-/who.html Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology

Souradeep Chakraborty Ruoyu Xue Rajarsi Gupta 0001 Oksana Yaskiv Constantin Friedman Natallia Sheuka Dana Perez Paul Friedman Won-Tak Choi Waqas Mahmud Beatrice Knudsen Gregory J. Zelinsky Joel H. Saltz Dimitris Samaras Measuring and predicting where and when pathologists focus their visual attention while grading whole slide images of cancer. 103752 2026 107 Medical Image Anal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2025.103752 db/journals/mia/mia107.html#ChakrabortyXGYFSPFCMKZS26 streams/journals/mia

Ritik Raina Abe Leite Alexandros Graikos Seoyoung Ahn Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Generating metamers of human scene understanding. 2026 January abs/2601.11675 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.11675 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-11675 streams/journals/corr

Peter Zeng Weiling Li Amie Paige Zhengxiang Wang Panagiotis Kaliosis Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Susan Brennan Owen Rambow LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication. 2026 January abs/2601.19792 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.19792 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-19792 streams/journals/corr

Hossein Adeli Seoyoung Ahn Andrew Luo Mengmi Zhang Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Gregory J. Zelinsky Human-like Object Grouping in Self-supervised Vision Transformers. 2026 March abs/2603.13994 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.13994 db/journals/corr/corr2603.html#abs-2603-13994 streams/journals/corr

Ruoyu Xue Jingyi Xu Sounak Mondal Hieu Le 0001 Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Dimitris Samaras Few-shot Personalized Scanpath Prediction. 13497-13507 2025 CVPR https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/html/Xue_Few-shot_Personalized_Scanpath_Prediction_CVPR_2025_paper.html https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.01260 conf/cvpr/2025 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2025.html#XueXM0ZHS25

Ruoyu Xue Jingyi Xu Sounak Mondal Hieu Le 0001 Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Dimitris Samaras Few-shot Personalized Scanpath Prediction. 2025 April abs/2504.05499 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.05499 db/journals/corr/corr2504.html#abs-2504-05499 streams/journals/corr

Ruoyu Xue Hieu Le 0001 Jingyi Xu Sounak Mondal Abe Leite Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Dimitris Samaras Personalized Image Descriptions from Attention Sequences. 2025 December abs/2512.06662 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.06662 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-06662 streams/journals/corr

Seoyoung Ahn Hossein Adeli Gregory J. Zelinsky The attentive reconstruction of objects facilitates robust object recognition. 1012159 2024 20 PLoS Comput. Biol. 6 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012159 db/journals/ploscb/ploscb20.html#AhnAZ24 streams/journals/ploscb

Zhibo Yang 0002 Sounak Mondal Seoyoung Ahn Ruoyu Xue Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Dimitris Samaras Unifying Top-Down and Bottom-Up Scanpath Prediction Using Transformers. 1683-1693 2024 CVPR https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.00166 conf/cvpr/2024 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2024.html#0002MAXZHS24 Sounak Mondal Seoyoung Ahn Zhibo Yang 0002 Niranjan Balasubramanian Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Look Hear: Gaze Prediction for Speech-Directed Human Attention. 236-255 2024 ECCV (42) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72946-1_14 conf/eccv/2024-42 db/conf/eccv/eccv2024-42.html#MondalAYBSZH24 streams/conf/eccv Souradeep Chakraborty Rajarsi Gupta 0001 Oksana Yaskiv Constantin Friedman Natallia Sheuka Dana Perez Paul Friedman Gregory J. Zelinsky Joel H. Saltz Dimitris Samaras Decoding the Visual Attention of Pathologists to Reveal Their Level of Expertise. 120-130 2024 MICCAI (3) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72384-1_12 conf/miccai/2024-3 db/conf/miccai/miccai2024-3.html#ChakrabortyGYFSPFZSS24 streams/conf/miccai

Souradeep Chakraborty Dana Perez Paul Friedman Natallia Sheuka Constantin Friedman Oksana Yaskiv Rajarsi Gupta 0001 Gregory J. Zelinsky Joel H. Saltz Dimitris Samaras Decoding the visual attention of pathologists to reveal their level of expertise. 2024 abs/2403.17255 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.17255 db/journals/corr/corr2403.html#abs-2403-17255

Souradeep Chakraborty Zijun Wei Conor Kelton Seoyoung Ahn Aruna Balasubramanian Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Predicting Visual Attention in Graphic Design Documents. 2024 abs/2407.02439 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.02439 db/journals/corr/corr2407.html#abs-2407-02439 streams/journals/corr

Sounak Mondal Seoyoung Ahn Zhibo Yang 0002 Niranjan Balasubramanian Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Look Hear: Gaze Prediction for Speech-directed Human Attention. 2024 abs/2407.19605 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.19605 db/journals/corr/corr2407.html#abs-2407-19605 streams/journals/corr

Souradeep Chakraborty Zijun Wei Conor Kelton Seoyoung Ahn Aruna Balasubramanian Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Predicting Visual Attention in Graphic Design Documents. 4478-4493 2023 25 IEEE Trans. Multim. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2022.3176942 db/journals/tmm/tmm25.html#ChakrabortyWKABZS23

Sounak Mondal Zhibo Yang 0002 Seoyoung Ahn Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Gazeformer: Scalable, Effective and Fast Prediction of Goal-Directed Human Attention. 1441-1450 2023 CVPR https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00145 conf/cvpr/2023 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2023.html#MondalYASZH23

Zhibo Yang 0002 Sounak Mondal Seoyoung Ahn Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Dimitris Samaras Predicting Human Attention using Computational Attention. 2023 abs/2303.09383 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.09383 db/journals/corr/corr2303.html#abs-2303-09383

Sounak Mondal Zhibo Yang 0002 Seoyoung Ahn Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Gazeformer: Scalable, Effective and Fast Prediction of Goal-Directed Human Attention. 2023 abs/2303.15274 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.15274 db/journals/corr/corr2303.html#abs-2303-15274

Hossein Adeli Seoyoung Ahn Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Gregory J. Zelinsky Affinity-based Attention in Self-supervised Transformers Predicts Dynamics of Object Grouping in Humans. 2023 abs/2306.00294 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.00294 db/journals/corr/corr2306.html#abs-2306-00294

Yupei Chen Zhibo Yang 0002 Souradeep Chakraborty Sounak Mondal Seoyoung Ahn Dimitris Samaras Minh Hoai Gregory J. Zelinsky Characterizing Target-absent Human Attention. 5027-5036 2022 CVPR Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00551 conf/cvpr/2022w db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2022w.html#ChenYCMASHZ22 Zhibo Yang 0002 Sounak Mondal Seoyoung Ahn Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Dimitris Samaras Target-Absent Human Attention. 52-68 2022 ECCV (4) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19772-7_4 conf/eccv/2022-4 db/conf/eccv/eccv2022-4.html#YangMAZHS22 Souradeep Chakraborty Ke Ma 0005 Rajarsi Gupta 0001 Beatrice Knudsen Gregory J. Zelinsky Joel H. Saltz Dimitris Samaras Visual Attention Analysis Of Pathologists Examining Whole Slide Images Of Prostate Cancer. 1-5 2022 ISBI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI52829.2022.9761489 conf/isbi/2022 db/conf/isbi/isbi2022.html#ChakrabortyMGKZ22 Souradeep Chakraborty Rajarsi Gupta 0001 Ke Ma 0005 Darshana Govind Pinaki Sarder Won-Tak Choi Waqas Mahmud Eric Yee Felicia Allard Beatrice Knudsen Gregory J. Zelinsky Joel H. Saltz Dimitris Samaras Predicting the Visual Attention of Pathologists Evaluating Whole Slide Images of Cancer. 11-21 2022 MOVI@MICCAI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16961-8_2 conf/miccai/2022movi db/conf/miccai/movi2022.html#ChakrabortyGMGS22

Souradeep Chakraborty Ke Ma 0005 Rajarsi Gupta 0001 Beatrice Knudsen Gregory J. Zelinsky Joel H. Saltz Dimitris Samaras Visual attention analysis of pathologists examining whole slide images of Prostate cancer. 2022 abs/2202.08437 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08437 db/journals/corr/corr2202.html#abs-2202-08437

Zhibo Yang 0002 Sounak Mondal Seoyoung Ahn Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai Dimitris Samaras Target-absent Human Attention. 2022 abs/2207.01166 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.01166 db/journals/corr/corr2207.html#abs-2207-01166

Seoyoung Ahn Hossein Adeli Gregory J. Zelinsky Reconstruction-guided attention improves the robustness and shape processing of neural networks. 2022 abs/2209.13620 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.13620 db/journals/corr/corr2209.html#abs-2209-13620

Hossein Adeli Seoyoung Ahn Gregory J. Zelinsky Recurrent Attention Models with Object-centric Capsule Representation for Multi-object Recognition. 2021 abs/2110.04954 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04954 db/journals/corr/corr2110.html#abs-2110-04954

Zhibo Yang 0002 Lihan Huang Yupei Chen Zijun Wei Seoyoung Ahn Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Minh Hoai Predicting Goal-Directed Human Attention Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning. 190-199 2020 CVPR https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/html/Yang_Predicting_Goal-Directed_Human_Attention_Using_Inverse_Reinforcement_Learning_CVPR_2020_paper.html https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00027 conf/cvpr/2020 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2020.html#YangHCWAZSH20 Seoyoung Ahn Conor Kelton Aruna Balasubramanian Gregory J. Zelinsky Towards Predicting Reading Comprehension From Gaze Behavior. 32:1-32:5 2020 ETRA Short Papers https://doi.org/10.1145/3379156.3391335 conf/etra/2020s db/conf/etra/etra2020s.html#AhnKBZ20 Megan Quarmley Zhibo Yang 0002 Shahrukh Athar Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Johanna M. Jarcho Nonverbal Behavioral Patterns Predict Social Rejection Elicited Aggression. 557-561 2020 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG47880.2020.00111 conf/fgr/2020 db/conf/fgr/fg2020.html#QuarmleyYAZSJ20

Gregory J. Zelinsky Yupei Chen Seoyoung Ahn Hossein Adeli Zhibo Yang 0002 Lihan Huang Dimitris Samaras Minh Hoai Predicting Goal-directed Attention Control Using Inverse-Reinforcement Learning. 2020 abs/2001.11921 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11921 db/journals/corr/corr2001.html#abs-2001-11921

Zhibo Yang 0002 Lihan Huang Yupei Chen Zijun Wei Seoyoung Ahn Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Minh Hoai Predicting Goal-directed Human Attention Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning. 2020 abs/2005.14310 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14310 db/journals/corr/corr2005.html#abs-2005-14310

Raji Annadi Yupei Chen Viresh Ranjan Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Minh Hoai A Study of Human Gaze Behavior During Visual Crowd Counting. 2020 abs/2009.06502 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06502 db/journals/corr/corr2009.html#abs-2009-06502

Gregory J. Zelinsky Zhibo Yang 0002 Lihan Huang Yupei Chen Seoyoung Ahn Zijun Wei Hossein Adeli Dimitris Samaras Minh Hoai Benchmarking Gaze Prediction for Categorical Visual Search. 828-836 2019 CVPR Workshops http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPRW_2019/html/MBCCV/Zelinsky_Benchmarking_Gaze_Prediction_for_Categorical_Visual_Search_CVPRW_2019_paper.html https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00111 conf/cvpr/2019w db/conf/cvpr/cvprw2019.html#ZelinskyYHCAWAS19 Conor Kelton Zijun Wei Seoyoung Ahn Aruna Balasubramanian Samir R. Das Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Reading detection in real-time. 43:1-43:5 2019 ETRA https://doi.org/10.1145/3314111.3319916 conf/etra/2019 db/conf/etra/etra2019.html#KeltonWABDSZ19 Hossein Adeli Gregory J. Zelinsky Deep-BCN: Deep Networks Meet Biased Competition to Create a Brain-Inspired Model of Attention Control. 1932-1942 2018 CVPR Workshops http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018_workshops/w39/html/Adeli_Deep-BCN_Deep_Networks_CVPR_2018_paper.html https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2018.00259 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2018.00259 conf/cvpr/2018w db/conf/cvpr/cvprw2018.html#AdeliZ18

Hossein Adeli Gregory J. Zelinsky Learning to attend in a brain-inspired deep neural network. 2018 abs/1811.09699 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09699 db/journals/corr/corr1811.html#abs-1811-09699

Hieu Le 0001 Chen-Ping Yu Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Co-localization with Category-Consistent Features and Geodesic Distance Propagation. 1103-1112 2017 ICCV Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2017.134 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2017.134 conf/iccvw/2017 db/conf/iccvw/iccvw2017.html#LeYZS17 Jihoon Ryoo Kiwon Yun Dimitris Samaras Samir R. Das Gregory J. Zelinsky Design and evaluation of a foveated video streaming service for commodity client devices. 6:1-6:11 2016 MMSys https://doi.org/10.1145/2910017.2910592 conf/mmsys/2016 db/conf/mmsys/mmsys2016.html#RyooYSDZ16 Zijun Wei Hossein Adeli Minh Hoai Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Learned Region Sparsity and Diversity Also Predicts Visual Attention. 1894-1902 2016 NIPS https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2016/hash/a0e2a2c563d57df27213ede1ac4ac780-Abstract.html http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6451-learned-region-sparsity-and-diversity-also-predicts-visual-attention conf/nips/2016 db/conf/nips/nips2016.html#WeiAHZS16

Hieu Le 0001 Chen-Ping Yu Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Co-localization with Category-Consistent CNN Features and Geodesic Distance Co-Propagation. 2016 abs/1612.03236 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03236 db/journals/corr/corr1612.html#LeYZS16

Gary Ge Kiwon Yun Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Action classification in still images using human eye movements. 16-23 2015 CVPR Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2015.7301288 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2015.7301288 conf/cvpr/2015w db/conf/cvpr/cvprw2015.html#GeYSZ15 Chen-Ping Yu Hieu Le 0001 Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Efficient Video Segmentation Using Parametric Graph Partitioning. 3155-3163 2015 ICCV https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2015.361 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICCV.2015.361 conf/iccv/2015 db/conf/iccv/iccv2015.html#YuLZS15 Kiwon Yun Yifan Peng Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Tamara L. Berg Studying Relationships between Human Gaze, Description, and Computer Vision. 739-746 2013 CVPR https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2013.101 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPR.2013.101 conf/cvpr/2013 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2013.html#YunPSZB13 Chen-Ping Yu Wen-Yu Hua Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Modeling Clutter Perception using Parametric Proto-object Partitioning. 118-126 2013 NIPS https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2013/hash/c45147dee729311ef5b5c3003946c48f-Abstract.html http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5201-modeling-clutter-perception-using-parametric-proto-object-partitioning conf/nips/2013 db/conf/nips/nips2013.html#YuHSZ13 Wei Zhang 0002 Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Real-time Accurate Object Detection using Multiple Resolutions. 1-8 2007 ICCV https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2007.4409057 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICCV.2007.4409057 conf/iccv/2007 db/conf/iccv/iccv2007.html#ZhangZS07 Susan E. Brennan Klaus Mueller 0001 Gregory J. Zelinsky I. V. Ramakrishnan David Scott Warren Arie E. Kaufman Toward a Multi-Analyst, Collaborative Framework for Visual Analytics. 129-136 2006 IEEE VAST https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2006.261439 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VAST.2006.261439 conf/ieeevast/2006 db/conf/ieeevast/ieeevast2006.html#BrennanMZRWK06 Wei Zhang 0002 Bing Yu Gregory J. Zelinsky Dimitris Samaras Object Class Recognition Using Multiple Layer Boosting with Heterogeneous Features. 323-330 2005 conf/cvpr/2005 CVPR (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2005.251 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPR.2005.251 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2005.html#ZhangYZS05 Gregory J. Zelinsky Wei Zhang 0002 Bing Yu Xin Chen Dimitris Samaras The Role of Top-down and Bottom-up Processes in Guiding Eye Movements during Visual Search. 2005 conf/nips/2005 NIPS https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2005/hash/564645fbd0332f066cbd9d083ddd077c-Abstract.html http://papers.nips.cc/paper/2805-the-role-of-top-down-and-bottom-up-processes-in-guiding-eye-movements-during-visual-search db/conf/nips/nips2005.html#ZelinskyZYCS05 1569-1576 Wei Zhang 0002 Hyejin Yang Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky A Computational Model of Eye Movements during Object Class Detection. 2005 conf/nips/2005 NIPS https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2005/hash/e07bceab69529b0f0b43625953fbf2a0-Abstract.html http://papers.nips.cc/paper/2949-a-computational-model-of-eye-movements-during-object-class-detection db/conf/nips/nips2005.html#ZhangYSZ05 1609-1616 Rajesh P. N. Rao Gregory J. Zelinsky Mary M. Hayhoe Dana H. Ballard Modeling Saccadic Targeting in Visual Search. 830-836 http://papers.nips.cc/paper/1128-modeling-saccadic-targeting-in-visual-search http://nips.djvuzone.org/djvu/nips08/0830.djvu 1995 conf/nips/1995 NIPS db/conf/nips/nips1995.html#RaoZHB95 Hossein Adeli Seoyoung Ahn Felicia Allard Raji Annadi Shahrukh Athar Aruna Balasubramanian Niranjan Balasubramanian Dana H. Ballard Tamara L. Berg Susan BrennanSusan E. Brennan Souradeep Chakraborty Xin Chen Yupei Chen Won-Tak Choi Samir Ranjan DasSamir R. Das Constantin Friedman Paul Friedman Gary Ge Darshana Govind Alexandros Graikos Rajarsi Gupta 0001 Mary M. Hayhoe Minh Hoai Wen-Yu Hua Lihan Huang Johanna M. Jarcho Panagiotis Kaliosis Arie E. Kaufman Conor Kelton Beatrice S. KnudsenBeatrice Knudsen Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Hieu Le 0001 Abe Leite Weiling Li Andrew Luo Ke Ma 0005 Waqas Mahmud Sounak Mondal Klaus Mueller 0001 Amie Paige Yifan Peng Dana Perez Megan Quarmley Ritik Raina I. V. Ramakrishnan Owen Rambow Viresh Ranjan Rajesh P. N. Rao Jihoon Ryoo Joel H. Saltz Dimitris Samaras Pinaki Sarder Natallia Sheuka Zhengxiang Wang David Scott Warren Zijun Wei Jingyi Xu Ruoyu Xue Hyejin Yang Zhibo Yang 0002 Oksana Yaskiv Eric Yee Bing Yu Chen-Ping Yu Kiwon Yun Peter Zeng Mengmi Zhang Wei Zhang 0002