Main Page

Savannah Hays presenting her award winning poster "The Importance of Super-Resolution and Harmonization in a Pragmatic Clinical MR Image Dataset" at the ACTRIMS Young Scientist Conference 2025.

Dr. Lianrui Zuo of Vanderbilt University presenting our collaboration "Counterfactual brain amyloid pathology image synthesis" at Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2025), San Diego, CA, February 16–20, 2025.

Prof. J.L. Prince with Shimeng Wang, Carlos Rivas, and Dr. Jinwei Zhang at Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2025), San Diego, CA, February 16–20, 2025.

Meeting at the Henry Jackson Foundation for the team behind the Brain Biomechanics Imaging Resources on NITRC, made possible by the NIH through U01 NS112120 (PI: P.V. Bayly).

Drs. Yihao Liu and Lianrui Zuo after their hooding by Prof. J.L. Prince.

IACL at the ACTRIMS Young Scientist Meeting. From left to right, Dr. Blake Dewey, Dr. Jinwei Zhang, Savannah Hays, Dr. Shuwen Wei, & Shimeng Wang.

IACL Group Photo from the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2024), San Diego, CA, February 18–22, 2024.

Zhangxing Bian presenting his award winning paper "Is Registering Raw Tagged-MR Enough for Strain Estimation in the Era of Deep Learning?" at the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2024), San Diego, CA, February 18–22, 2024.

Zhangxing Bian presenting "MomentaMorph: Unsupervised Spatial-Temporal Registration with Momenta, Shooting, and Correction" at the MICCAI Workshop on Time-Series Data Analytics and Learning (MTSAIL 2023) in conjunction with the 26^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023), Vancouver, Canada, October 8–12, 2023.

IACL Lab members at CMSC 2023 in Aurora, Colorado.

Dr. Muhan Shao being hooded by Prof. Jerry L. Prince.

Allen Hong giving a presentation capping off his REU Summer in IACL working with Dr. Ahmed Alshareef.

Lab members Lianrui Zuo and Yihao Liu with Dr. Yufan He after his graduation in May 2022.

2025

May

Savannah Hays presenting her award winning poster "The Importance of Super-Resolution and Harmonization in a Pragmatic Clinical MR Image Dataset" at the ACTRIMS Young Scientist Conference 2025.

• Congratulations to Savannah P. Hays on winning a Best Poster Award at the ACTRIMS Young Scientist Conference 2025.

• IACL abstracts at 2025 Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) Annual Meeting, Pheonix, AZ, May 28–31, 2025.
  • Savannah P. Hays had an oral presentation of her work titled "The importance of super-resolution and harmonization in a pragmatic clinical MR image dataset".

• IACL abstracts at the 33^rd Annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2025), Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, May 10-15, 2025.
  • Savannah P. Hays had an oral presentation of her work titled "Rescuing Incomplete MR Data: Anatomy Imputation of Restricted Field of View Images Using Multi-Contrast MR Images".
  • Dr. Jinwei Zhang remotely presented "Accelerating Multi-parametric MRI Sequences Using Learned Acquisition and Reconstruction Optimization (LARO):A Retrospective Study",

April

• Our paper titled "Average biomechanical responses of the human brain grouped by age and sex" led by Prof. Ahmed Alshareef from Univ. of South Carolina has appeared in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.  (doi)

February

Carlos Rivas' award for best poster titled "Unique MS lesion identification from MRI" at the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2025), San Diego, CA, February 16–20, 2025.

• Congratulations to Carlos Rivas on winning a Best Poster Award at the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2025), San Diego, CA, February 16–20, 2025.
• IACL papers at the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2025), San Diego, CA, February 16–20, 2025.
  • Carlos Rivas presented "Unique MS lesion identification from MRI".
  • Shimeng Wang presented "Longitudinal analysis of cerebellum volume changes in a multiple sclerosis cohort".
  • Dr. Jinwei Zhang presented "Bi-directional MS lesion filling and synthesis using denoising diffusion implicit model-based lesion repainting".
  • Xiaojian Chen's paper titled "Correlation ratio for unsupervised learning of multi-modal deformable registration", was presented by Dr. Jinwei Zhang.

• Other accepted papers at SPIE-MI 2025 coming from collaborations with IACL.
  • Dr. Lianrui Zuo from Vanderbilt University, presented "Counterfactual brain amyloid pathology image synthesis".

IACL at SPIE-MI 2025
Carlos Rivas presenting his award winning poster titled "Unique MS lesion identification from MRI".			Shimeng Wang presenting his poster "Longitudinal analysis of cerebellum volume changes in a multiple sclerosis cohort".
	Dr. Jinwei Zhang presenting his SPIE-MI Deep Dive titled "Bi-directional MS lesion filling and synthesis using denoising diffusion implicit model-based lesion repainting".
Prof. J.L. Prince with current lab members and special guests (Dr. Muhan Shao and Dr. Lianrui Zuo).			Prof. J.L. Prince with current lab members.

January

• The latest version of our super-resolution software is now available with pip install eclare. The related publication is:

S.W. Remedios, S. Han, L. Zuo, A. Carass, D.L. Pham, J.L. Prince, and B.E. Dewey, "Self-Supervised Super-Resolution for Slice Gap MRI", Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging (SASHIMI 2023) in conjunction with the 26^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023), Vancouver, Canada, October 8–12, 2023. (doi) 

• Our paper titled "A survey on deep learning in medical image registration: New technologies, uncertainty, evaluation metrics, and beyond" led by Dr. Junyu Chen has appeared in Medical Image Analysis.  (doi)

2024

November

• Dr. Yihao Liu of Vanderbilt University has co-authored a paper with us titled "Vector Field Attention for Deformable Image Registration" that has appeared in the Journal of Medical Imaging.  (doi)

October

• Dr. Kshitiz Upadhyay at Louisiana State University has co-authored a paper with us titled "Effect of Human Head Shape on the Risk of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Gaussian Process Regression-Based Machine Learning Approach" that has appeared in the journal Military Medicine.  (doi)

• IACL papers at the 27^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2024), Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6–10, 2024.
  • Savannah P. Hays presented 'Beyond MR Image Harmonization: Resolution Matters Too.  (doi)
  • Samuel W. Remedios presented TS-SR3: Time-strided denoising diffusion probabilistic model for MR super-resolution on behalf of Zejun Wu.  (doi)
  • Dr. B.E. Dewey presented RATNUS: Rapid, Automatic Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation using Multimodal MRI inputs on behalf of Anqi Feng.

IACL at MICCAI 2024
Savannah Hays presenting her poster Beyond MR Image Harmonization: Resolution Matters Too.		Sam Remedios presenting the poster TS-SR3: Time-strided denoising diffusion probabilistic model for MR super-resolution.

See all our old News