Rachid Youven Zeghlache

Research Engineer & AI Researcher ·

I am an AI researcher specialising in medical image analysis, multi-modal learning, and longitudinal deep learning for predictive medicine. My PhD focused on diabetic retinopathy progression prediction. I am also the creator of the Augmented Scholars newsletter and YouTube channel on using AI for making augmnented researcher.

Multi-modal LearningLongitudinal LearningPredictive MedicineMedical ImagingAgentic AI for Health
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Education

2021–2024

Ph.D. in Medical Image Analysis

University of Western Brittany (UBO) — LATIM, France

Thesis: Longitudinal follow-up and multi-modal analysis for prediction of diabetic retinopathy progression using deep learning

2020–2021

M.Sc. in Images and Signals for Medicine (SIM)

UPEC, France

2017–2020

Engineering Degree, Computer Science for Health

EPISEN, France

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Selected Publications

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L-MAE: Longitudinal Masked Auto-Encoder for Diabetic Retinopathy Progression Prediction

Rachid Youven Zeghlache, Pierre-Henri Conze, Gwenolé Quellec, Mathieu Lamard, Béatrice Cochener, Gouenou Coatrieux

Computers in Biology and Medicine (CBM), 2025

DISCOVER: Development and Validation of a Deep Learning-Based Algorithm for Diabetic Retinopathy Progression Prediction

Rachid Youven Zeghlache, Pierre-Henri Conze, Gwenolé Quellec, Mathieu Lamard, Sophie Bonnin, Béatrice Cochener, Gouenou Coatrieux

AIM — Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2024

Deep Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening — A Comprehensive Review

Rachid Youven Zeghlache, Pierre-Henri Conze, Gwenolé Quellec, Mathieu Lamard, Béatrice Cochener, Gouenou Coatrieux

Computers in Biology and Medicine (CBM), 2024

Active Projects

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MedFlowAssist

A multi-agent medical assistant powered by MedGemma, MedASR & LiteLLM with 13 clinical workflows, …

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D2 Ink — D2 Architecture Diagrams for Inkscape

Write and render D2 architecture diagrams and entity-relationship diagrams as editable SVG inside …

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ImageGen Ink — AI Image Generator for Inkscape

Generate AI images (Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, Flux) from text prompts as embedded SVG elements.

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