Our mission is to create methods to fit the science and not make science fit the methods.

Specifically, we are interested in the following questions that have clinical relevance:

  1. Neurodegeneration – How can we develop software frameworks that can assist neurology practitioners in various real-world settings?
  2. Digital pathology – How can we build clinical-grade software tools to complement the pathologist workflow?

We are also interested in the following frameworks that have computational relevance:

  1. Multimodal learning – Efficient design of generalist AI models that can process multiple modalities of data.
  2. Representation learning – Construction of efficient neural models on high resolution data to process local and contextual information

Joining our laboratory

We form small teams comprising individuals with complementary expertise and work persistently to build comprehensive solutions.

Important: If you are interested in joining us, then we encourage you to contact an active lab member (click on Team) and talk about your interests.

Funding

We are grateful for funding from the American Heart Association, the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Cancer Institute, the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITC) for Aging Research program, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. We also thank the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust, Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation Inc., and Visterra Inc., for funding our work.

Teaching

– Machine learning (MS650)

– Guest lectures (BF831; HM817; FC713; EC500)

News

July 2024

New paper! AI-based differential diagnosis of dementia, published in Nature Medicine.

July 2024

Harsh Sharma transitions from an MS/AI student in our lab to a Data/ML Engineer at CarbonArc.

July 2024

Enes Guven transitions from an IT manager in our lab to a Program director at Peace Islands Institute.

June 2024

New paper! Web-based tool for kidney biopsy adequacy, published in KI Reports.

June 2024

Yi Zheng defends his PhD and joins Thales Group as a Deep Learning Scientist.

June 2024

New paper! Adversarial learning on MRIs for cognitive assessment, published in IEEE Access.

June 2024

New paper! Framework to assess dataset readiness in machine learning, published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

May 2024

New paper! Domain generalization for Alzheimer's disease assessment, published in Human Brain Mapping.

April 2024

New award! Lingyi Xu wins the 2024 Boston University Women's Guild Award.

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