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IACL Lab members at ACTRIMS 2026 in San Diego, California.

Samuel W. Remedios presenting his poster "Cycle-consistent zero-shot through-plane super-resolution for anisotropic head MRI" at the 29^th Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2025), Kos Island, Greece, May 25–30, 2025. Which won Best Poster!

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.

2026

April

Liwei Zhou presents "A longitudinal study on brain structural connectivity metrics and diffusion imaging indices in a multiple sclerosis cohort" at the 23^rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026), London, UK, April 8–11, 2026.

• IACL papers at the 23^rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026), London, UK, April 8–11, 2026.
  • Prahlad Anand's paper titled "DICOM-CLIP: Zero-shot acquisition parameter retrieval from unprocessed DICOM files".
  • Shimeng Wang's paper titled "SAID: Shunt artifact inpainting for normal pressure hydrocephalus from a 3D MRI diffusion model".
  • Liwei Zhou's paper titled "A longitudinal study on brain structural connectivity metrics and diffusion imaging indices in a multiple sclerosis cohort".

IACL at ISBI 2026
Prahlad Anand presenting "DICOM-CLIP: Zero-shot acquisition parameter retrieval from unprocessed DICOM files".		Shimeng Wang presenting "SAID: Shunt artifact inpainting for normal pressure hydrocephalus from a 3D MRI diffusion model".

Kathleen M. Bartz is announced as a recipient of a 2026 Percy Pierre Fellowship.

• Kathleen M. Bartz receives a 2026 Percy Pierre Fellowship. The Percy Pierre Fellowship recognizes outstanding incoming graduate students to Johns Hopkins and honors the legacy of engineering and innovation set by Percy Pierre.

March

• Dr. Remedios' paper titled "ECLARE: efficient cross-planar learning for anisotropic resolution enhancement" appears in SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging.

February

• IACL papers at the Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE-MI 2026), Vancouver, Canada, February 15–19, 2026.
  • Liwei Zhou presented "Pipeline refinement on diffusion tractography and T1 tractography in the presence of multiple sclerosis lesions".
  • Kathleen M. Bartz presented "Construction of a normative database of human retinal thicknesses from existing UK BioBank OCT Participants" and "Automated quality assurance of parcellation techniques with Statistically-based Failure Evaluation (SAFE)".
  • Prof. Prince presented Dr. Wei's work titled "Optical coherence tomography harmonization via dual diffusion implicit bridges".

IACL at SPIE-MI 2026
Kathleen M. Bartz presenting her poster to Adam Saunders.	Liwei Zhou presenting his poster to Dr. Bulat Ibragimov.	IACL lab members and Special Guest (Dr. Shwetadwip Chowdhury).

Savannah P. Hays presents "The Impact of Site Variability on Volumetric Analysis in a Multi-Site MRI Dataset: A Case for Image Harmonization" at the 11^th annual Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS), San Diego, CA, February 5–7, 2026.

• Savannah P. Hays presented "The Impact of Site Variability on Volumetric Analysis in a Multi-Site MRI Dataset: A Case for Image Harmonization" at the 11^th annual Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS), San Diego, CA, February 5–7, 2026.

January

• Dr. Zhang's paper titled "UNISELF: A Unified Network with Instance Normalization and Self-Ensembled Lesion Fusion for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation" appears in Medical Image Analysis.
• Our paper titled "Unsupervised learning of spatially varying regularization for diffeomorphic image registration" led by Dr. Junyu Chen is available from Medical Image Analysis.
• Savannah P. Hays has her first journal article published in SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging, titled "Synthetic multi-inversion time magnetic resonance images for visualization of subcortical structures".

2025

December

• Dr. Shuwen Wei presents his paper titled "Optical Coherence Tomography Harmonization with Anatomy-Guided Latent Metric Schrödinger Bridges" at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), San Diego, CA, December 2–7, 2025.
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• Dr. Jinwei Zhang presents his paper title "Automated Unique Lesion Tracking (AULTRA): A Framework for Longitudinal Lesion-wise Morphometric Analysis in Multiple Sclerosis" at the annual meeting of the Radiological Sociey of North America (RSNA 2025), Chicago, IL, November 30 – December 4, 2025.

• The 2024 Learn2Reg paper is published.

November

Savannah Hays visits West Virginia University to give a talk to the Machine Intelligence Lab (PI: Prashnna K Gyawali) about MR image processing and synthesis.

• Savannah P. Hays visits West Virginia University to give a talk to the Machine Intelligence Lab (PI: Prashnna K. Gyawali  ) about MR image processing and synthesis.

October

• Samuel W. Remedios successfully defends his thesis titled "Through-plane super-resolution of anisotropic multi-slice magnetic resonance images".

• M. Faizyab Ali Chaudhary joins IACL from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

September

• IACL papers at the 28^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2025), Daejeon, South Korea, September 23–27, 2025.
  • Samuel W. Remedios presented "Exploring the feasibility of zero-shot super-resolution in preclinical imaging".
  • Samuel W. Remedios also presented "Unsupervised OCT image interpolation using deformable registration and generative models" on behalf of Dr. Shuwen Wei.
  • Anqi "Amy" Feng presented "Segmenting Thalamic Nuclei: T1 Maps Provide a Reliable and Efficient Solution" as part of the Workshop on Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing (iMIMIC).

Samuel W. Remedios presented "Exploring the feasibility of zero-shot super-resolution in preclinical imaging".		Anqi "Amy" Feng presenting "Segmenting Thalamic Nuclei: T1 Maps Provide a Reliable and Efficient Solution".		Samuel W. Remedios also presented "Unsupervised OCT image interpolation using deformable registration and generative models".

• Savannah P. Hays had a poster presentation titled "Improving MR image harmonization for clinical and research applications in multiple sclerosis" at the 150^th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association (ANA2025) in Baltimore, MD.

IACL at ANA 2025

July

Savannah Hays presenting "An Unsupervised Approach for Artifact Severity Scoring in Multi-Contrast MR Images" at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL 2025), Salt Lake City, UT, July 9–11, 2025.

• IACL papers at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL 2025), Salt Lake City, UT, July 9–11, 2025.
  • Savannah P. Hays had a poster presentation of her work titled "An Unsupervised Approach for Artifact Severity Scoring in Multi-Contrast MR Images".
  • Dr. Junyu Chen had a poster presentation of his work titled "Pretraining Deformable Image Registration Networks with Random Images".

June

• The Whiting School of Engineering publishes Student Wins Best Poster Award at 2025 ACTRIMS Young Scientist Conference celebrating Savannah Hays' win!

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