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Papers, grants, awards and milestones from the lab.

May 2026 Milestone Chonghua Xue successfully defends his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
March 2026 Milestone Diala Lteif successfully defends her PhD in Computer Science.
March 2026 Milestone Olivia Zhou got matched to Orthopedic Surgery at Stony Brook Medicine.
March 2026 Grant We received an R03 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
February 2026 Paper Agentic AI for medical question-answering tasks, published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
December 2025 Paper Fourier filtering-based multiple instance learning, published in the International Journal of Computer Vision.
December 2025 Paper AI-augmented frameworks for AD clinical trials, published in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease.
December 2025 Paper AI models, bias and data sharing efforts to tackle ADRD, published in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease.
December 2025 Milestone Yichi Zhang successfully defends his PhD in bioinformatics.
November 2025 Paper Digital technological advances in ADRD, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
October 2025 Paper AI-augmented radiomic analysis on various dementias, published in npj Dementia.
September 2025 Paper AI-first framework for multimodal data in ADRD, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
September 2025 Paper Regional modal mix for MRI segmentation, published in Human Brain Mapping.
September 2025 Paper Practice effects on digital cognitive assessment tools, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
August 2025 Paper AI for Alzheimer's biomarker assessment, published in Nature Communications.
July 2025 Paper PodGPT - An audio-augmented LLM, published in npj Biomedical Innovations.
May 2025 Grant We received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
May 2025 Paper Explainability-driven active feature acquisition, accepted in ICML.
March 2025 Award Varuna Jasodanand wins 1st place in the poster event held at the 12th Annual BU-CTSI Translational Science Symposium.
March 2025 Paper Privacy versus accuracy in voice-based cognitive tests, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
February 2025 Award Shreyas Puducheri, Olivia Zhou and Krish Kapadia win 2nd place in the poster event held at the Beth Israel Lahey Health AI & ML Symposium.
January 2025 Grant We received another pilot award from the a2 collective, representing the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITC) for Aging Research program.
January 2025 Paper AI for dementia care published in Australian Journal of Dementia Care.
December 2024 Update Grant renewal! Our R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging entered its second phase.
December 2024 Paper Network efficiency of tau propagation, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
November 2024 Paper AI as a copilot in neurology, published in Aging and Disease.
October 2024 Award Lingyi Xu wins 3rd place at the Evans Day poster event.
August 2024 Grant We received an R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging.
July 2024 Paper AI-based differential diagnosis of dementia, published in Nature Medicine.
July 2024 Update Harsh Sharma transitions from an MS/AI student in our lab to a Data/ML Engineer at CarbonArc.
July 2024 Update Enes Guven transitions from an IT manager in our lab to a Program Director at Peace Islands Institute.
June 2024 Paper Web-based tool for kidney biopsy adequacy, published in KI Reports.
June 2024 Milestone Yi Zheng defends his PhD and joins Thales Group as a Deep Learning Scientist.
June 2024 Paper Adversarial learning on MRIs for cognitive assessment, published in IEEE Access.
June 2024 Paper Framework to assess dataset readiness in machine learning, published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
May 2024 Paper Domain generalization for Alzheimer's disease assessment, published in Human Brain Mapping.
April 2024 Award Lingyi Xu wins the 2024 Boston University Women's Guild Award.
April 2024 Paper Graph attention-based fusion for digital pathology, published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
April 2024 Paper Graph perceiver network for digital pathology, published in the American Journal of Pathology.
March 2024 Milestone Lindsey Claus got matched to Vascular Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
March 2024 Milestone Divya Veerapaneni got matched to Neurology at the UT Southwestern Medical Center.
February 2024 Paper Survival analysis on subchondral bone length for total knee replacement, published in Skeletal Radiology.
January 2024 Update New papers! The Journal of the American Heart Association's special issue on digital health showcases multiple papers from our team.
October 2023 Paper Fusion of low-level voice descriptors for dementia, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
October 2023 Paper Large language models in neurology, published in Neurology.
September 2023 Grant We received an Ignition Award from Boston University to create an AI-based tool for dementia assessment.
September 2023 Paper Deep learning to predict progression risk on cognitively impaired individuals, published in iScience.
May 2023 Paper Machine learning in clinical trials: Applications to neurology, published in Neurotherapeutics.
April 2023 Update Tejus Surendran transitions from a staff scientist in our lab to a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University.
March 2023 Milestone Matthew Miller got matched to MGH Radiology.
March 2023 Milestone Akshara Balachandra got matched to Stanford Neurology.
March 2023 Milestone Joyce Lee got matched to Neurology at Boston Medical Center.
December 2022 Grant We received a pilot award from the a2 collective, representing the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITC) for Aging Research program.
September 2022 Grant We received an SBIR Phase-I grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases.
August 2022 Award Lindsey Claus wins the 2022 American Society of Nephrology Kidney STARS award.
July 2022 Update Michael Romano completes postdoctoral research and starts radiology residency at University of California, San Francisco.
June 2022 Paper Multimodal deep learning for dementia assessment, published in Nature Communications.
June 2022 Award Lindsey Claus recognized by International Association of Medical Science Educators.
June 2022 Milestone Shangran Qiu defends his PhD and joins Microsoft Inc. as an Applied Scientist.
May 2022 Paper Graph-transformer for digital pathology, published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
May 2022 Award Yi Zheng wins 2022 Department of Computer Science Research Excellence Award.
May 2022 Paper Machine learning for pre-med trainees, published in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
May 2022 Milestone Ray Jhun graduates with an MD degree and joins the neurology residency program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
January 2022 Paper Spotlight on subtyping Alzheimer's disease, published in Trends in Molecular Medicine.
January 2022 Grant We received another pilot award from the Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation, Inc.
December 2021 Milestone Xiao Zhou defends his PhD in Computer Science and starts postdoctoral research at Yale University.
December 2021 Update Rushin Gindra transitions from a staff scientist in our lab to a PhD student at the Munich Data Science Institute at TU Munich.
December 2021 Paper We developed subchondral bone length, a new imaging measure for knee osteoarthritis, published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.
October 2021 Award Evans Junior Faculty Merit Award from the Department of Medicine.
September 2021 Grant We received an R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
August 2021 Paper Deep learning framework to detect dementia on voice recordings, published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy.
August 2021 Paper Deep learning framework to predict the grade of kidney fibrosis, published in the American Journal of Pathology.
July 2021 Grant We received a pilot award from the Diacomp consortium.
June 2021 Paper Machine learning applications in nephrology, published in Kidney Medicine.
May 2021 Award Shangran Qiu wins 2021 Department of Physics Alvaro Roccaro Memorial Prize.
May 2021 Paper Game theory-based deep learning to augment Alzheimer's disease classification, published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy.
January 2021 Award Toffler Scholarship in Neuroscience.
August 2020 Grant We received an R21 grant from the National Cancer Institute.
June 2020 Paper Interpretable deep learning framework for Alzheimer's disease classification, published in Brain.
June 2020 Grant We received a pilot award from the Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation, Inc.
May 2020 Grant We received an R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging.
May 2020 Milestone Lisa Park graduates with an MD degree and joins the radiology residency program at Northwell Health.
April 2020 Grant We received a Strategically Focused Health Technologies & Innovation Research Network grant from the American Heart Association.
February 2020 Paper Convolutional Siamese network to predict knee pain, published in European Radiology.
January 2020 Update Gary Chang completes his postdoctoral research in our lab and joins National Taiwan University faculty.
December 2019 Paper Unsupervised learning to assess Alzheimer's disease, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia (N Y).
July 2019 Update Qiuyuan Qin transitions from a staff scientist in our lab to a PhD student at the University of Rochester.
April 2019 Paper Glomerular segmentation using deep learning, published in KI Reports.
January 2019 Milestone Shruti Kannan graduates with a Masters degree and heads to Bose corporation.
September 2018 Paper Machine learning education in medical schools, published in npj Digital Medicine.
September 2018 Paper Fusion network to assess mild cognitive impairment, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia (Amst).
January 2018 Paper Deep neural network to predict renal survival, published in KI Reports.
July 2017 Grant We received a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association.