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Samira Rahimi

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Associate ProfessorFaculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health SciencesMcGill University

Samira Rahimi

Associate Professor

Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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72 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 27 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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2,640

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Research

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AI and Digital Oral Health

Latest papers

External validation of cough-based algorithms for pulmonary tuberculosis screening from the CODA TB DREAM challenge using cough data from Peru.
Scientific reports · 2026
Cough acoustic analysis using artificial intelligence for COVID-19 detection: A comparative study of patient cohorts from Lima, Peru and Montreal, Canada.
Annals of epidemiology · 2026
Evaluation and improvement of algorithmic fairness for COVID-19 severity classification using Explainable Artificial Intelligence-based bias mitigation.
JAMIA open · 2026 · senior author

All 123 publications

123 publications.

External validation of cough-based algorithms for pulmonary tuberculosis screening from the CODA TB DREAM challenge using cough data from Peru.

Zimmer AJ, Espinoza-Lopez P, Ravi V, Sieberts SK, Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi S, Pai M, Ugarte-Gil C, Grandjean Lapierre S

Scientific reports20263 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-50492-4 PMID: 42162050

Cough acoustic analysis using artificial intelligence for COVID-19 detection: A comparative study of patient cohorts from Lima, Peru and Montreal, Canada.

Zimmer AJ, Ravi V, Espinoza-Lopez P, Kafentzis GP, Ravanelli M, Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi S, Pai M, Ugarte-Gil C, Grandjean Lapierre S

Annals of epidemiology20262 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2026.110076 PMID: 41862033

Evaluation and improvement of algorithmic fairness for COVID-19 severity classification using Explainable Artificial Intelligence-based bias mitigation.

Nejadshamsi S, H Chu C, McGilton KS, Li X, Ronquillo C, Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi S

JAMIA open20262 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooaf171 PMID: 41522832

Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review.

Dalsania KA, Ménard A, Sundararaman S, Rahgozar A, de Lima S, Lu X, Al-Ali A, Singh K, Hakimjavadi R, Yan H, Sethuram C, Bergman H, LaPlante J, McIsaac D, Rahimi SA, Sourial N, Thandi M, Wong S, Liddy C, Bandeen-Roche K, Karunananthan S

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70387 PMID: 41845582

Antibiotic dispensing practices and determinants among informal healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods scoping review.

Thapa P, Tandan M, Bhandari B, Gandra S, Timalsina D, Thapaliya S, Bhusal A, Bohora S, Gore G, Oga-Omenka C, Asadullah M, Shukla P, Joshi C, Sheokand S, Dutta M, Rahimi SA, Pai M, Sulis G

BMJ global health20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2025-023208 PMID: 42373214

Machine learning-based prediction of Metabolic Syndrome risk in the Quebec population.

Qiu H, Nejadshamsi S, Wang T, Daskalopoulou SS, Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi S

BMJ digital health & AI20261 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjdh-2026-000065 PMID: 42712279

Additional file 1 of Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep–post pilot study in Patna, India

Poshan Thapa, Prachi Shukla, Chandrashekhar Joshi, Sena Sayood, Pradeep Kumar Sinha, Diwash Timilsina, Mili Dutta, Madhukar Pai, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Sumanth Gandra

Figshare2026Open Access

DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.32195451

Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Systematic Review

Chetan Shirvankar, Lily Puterman‐Salzman, Josep Iglésies, Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi

Lecture notes in computer science2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-30813-9_42

Additional file 1 of Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep–post pilot study in Patna, India

Poshan Thapa, Prachi Shukla, Chandrashekhar Joshi, Sena Sayood, Pradeep Kumar Sinha, Diwash Timilsina, Mili Dutta, Madhukar Pai, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Sumanth Gandra

Figshare2026Open Access

DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.32195451.v1

Additional file 2 of Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep–post pilot study in Patna, India

Poshan Thapa, Prachi Shukla, Chandrashekhar Joshi, Sena Sayood, Pradeep Kumar Sinha, Diwash Timilsina, Mili Dutta, Madhukar Pai, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Sumanth Gandra

Figshare2026Open Access

DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.32195454

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Samira Rahimi

Research

Latest papers

External validation of cough-based algorithms for pulmonary tuberculosis screening from the CODA TB DREAM challenge using cough data from Peru.

Cough acoustic analysis using artificial intelligence for COVID-19 detection: A comparative study of patient cohorts from Lima, Peru and Montreal, Canada.

Evaluation and improvement of algorithmic fairness for COVID-19 severity classification using Explainable Artificial Intelligence-based bias mitigation.

Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review.

Antibiotic dispensing practices and determinants among informal healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods scoping review.

Machine learning-based prediction of Metabolic Syndrome risk in the Quebec population.

Additional file 1 of Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep–post pilot study in Patna, India

Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Systematic Review

Additional file 1 of Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep–post pilot study in Patna, India

Additional file 2 of Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep–post pilot study in Patna, India

Frequent collaborators

Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi

France Légaré

Alain Giguère

Anik Giguère

Daoud Ait-Kadi

Marie-Pierre Gagnon

Charlene Chu

François Rousseau

Anne Bourbonnais

Amanda M Grenier

Shehroz Khan

Kathleen Leslie

Roland Grad

Dan Poenaru

Jean-Claude Forest

Madhukar Pai

Pierre Pluye

Andria Bianchi

Maxime Sasseville

Jason Harley

Elham Emami

Howard Bergman

Mark Yaffe