Publications

• Inferring inflammation spread rates in inflammatory bowel diseases using traveling wave solutions (2026), Under review, available on HAL. 

S. Al-Ali, Y. Bouhnik,  J. Chaussard, S. Li-Thiao-Té, É. Ogier-Denis, A. Percy-du-sert, X. Treton and H. Zaag

• Multi‐Channel Causal Variational Autoencoder (2024), available on HAL. 

The Python repository and code are available on GitLab.

S. Al-Ali and I. Balelli

• Bayesian Calibration of Artificial Pacemaker Models with Device–Tissue Interactions

 Computing in Cardiology (2026), available on HAL.

S. Al-Ali, M. Leguèbe, G. Poëtte and Y. Coudière

• Global sensitivity analysis through causal discovery for an electromechanical cardiac model

 Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (2026).  The Python repository and code are available on GitLab.

 S. Al-Ali, J. Rodriguez Padilla, M. Sermesant and I. Balelli

• Consensus Enhances Individual Causal Models: a Use Case on Lung Cancer Driven by Cellular Pathways

 CMSB 2026 - 24th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Jul 2026, Lisbon, Portugal. The associated Python repository is available on GitHub.

    A. Lang, R. Henrique Ramos, S. Al-Ali, M. Reza Mousavi, A. Calissano and I. Balelli

• Multi-Channel Causal Variational Autoencoder for multimodal biomedical causal disentanglement, 

  Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 176:104995, 2026. The Python repository and code are available on GitLab.

S. Al-Ali and I. Balelli

• Cardiac electromechanical model sensitivity analysis using causal discovery

 Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. FIMH 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15672. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94559-5_31 

S. Al-Ali, J. Rodriguez Padilla, M. Sermesant and I. Balelli

• Causality: fundamental principles and tools

 In The MICCAI Society book Series, Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging, Academic Press, 2025, Pages 297-314, ISBN 9780443237614, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-44-323761-4.00026-2. The associated Python notebook is available on  GitLab. (Book link: Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging).

I. Balelli, S. Al-Ali, E. Dumas, and J. Abecassis 

• Assessing ionic current blockades and electromechanical biomarkers’ interrelations through a novel Multi‐Channel Causal Variational Autoencoder

 Computing in Cardiology 2024; Vol 51, ISSN: 2325-887X DOI: 10.22489/CinC.2024.408   

S. Al-Ali, M. Mora, M. Sermesant, B. Trenor and I. Balelli

• YOUR-Lead: YOLO and U-Net for Reconstruction of ECG Lead Signals 

      Computing in Cardiology 2024; Vol 51, SSN: 2325-887X DOI: 10.22489/CinC.2024.372 

 R. Silva, Y. Yang, M. Morier, S. Al-Ali and M. Sermesant

• Detection of ulcerative colitis lesions from weakly annotated colonoscopy videos using bounding boxes Gastrointest. Disord. 2024, 6, 292‐307.

S. Al-Ali, J. Chaussard, S. Li‐Thiao‐Té, É. Ogier‐Denis, A. Percy-du-Sert, X. Treton and H. Zaag

• A Causal Discovery Approach to Streamline Ionic Currents Selection to Improve Drug‐induced TdP Risk Assessment 

2023 Computing in Cardiology (CinC). Vol. 50. IEEE, 2023.

S. Al-Ali, J. Lorente, M. Mora, M. Sermesant, B. Trenor and I. Balelli

• Automatic bleeding and ulcer detection from limited quality annotations in ulcerative colitis

 Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Volume 28, Issue Supplement_1, February 2022, Pages S19–S20.

 S. Al-Ali, J. Chaussard, S. Li‐Thiao‐Té, É. Ogier‐Denis, A. Percy du Sert, X. Treton and H. Zaag

• P015 Detection of endoscopic lesions from limited quality annotations in colonoscopy videos

 Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, Volume 16, Issue Supplement_1, January 2022, Pages i142‐i144.

 S. Al-Ali, J. Chaussard, S. Li‐Thiao‐Té, É. Ogier‐Denis, A. Percy-du-Sert, X. Treton and H. Zaag

• Mathematical modelling of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (2022). Doctoral dissertation, Université Paris‐Nord‐Paris XIII.

  • Referees: Aymeric Histace and Clair Poignard 

  • Examiners: Carole Le Guyader and Éric Ogier-Denis

  • Jury members:  Xavier Treton and  John Chaussard

• Modélisation des lésions de l'intestin dans les vidéos endoscopiques, Master Thesis, Université Paris‐Nord‐Paris XIII, 2018.

  • Supervisors: Sébastien Li-Thiao-Té and  John Chaussard