News
Point2SSM++ Published in Medical Image Analysis
Point2SSM++, a self-supervised framework for learning anatomical shape models directly from point clouds, has been accepted and published in Medical Image Analysis. The work extends Point2SSM with a self-supervised training paradigm that eliminates the need for ground-truth correspondences.
Six Papers Under Review
MedVIC has six papers under review at top venues, spanning cross-modal representation learning, multi-scale pathology supervision, MRI quality assessment, interpretability in medical vision-language models, normalizing flows for morphology, and accelerated 3D LGE-MRI reconstruction.
Tuan Le Joins MedVIC
Tuan Le has joined MedVIC as a PhD student, working on few-shot learning in a co-advising arrangement with Prof. Gianfranco Doretto.
MedVIC Hosts MIDL 2025 in Salt Lake City
Prof. Elhabian served as General Chair of the Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 2025 conference, hosted in Salt Lake City. The event brought the global medical imaging AI community to the University of Utah.
CranioRate Processes 2,900+ Scans Across 7 Clinical Sites
CranioRate has processed more than 2,900 CT scans across seven active clinical institutions since the portal launched in January 2025, with additional sites onboarding.
Krithika Iyer Graduates, Joins Children's National Hospital
Dr. Krithika Iyer successfully defended her PhD dissertation and joined Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
LEDA, EfficientMorph, and MIDL Papers Accepted
MedVIC papers were accepted at IPMI 2025, WACV 2025, and MIDL 2025, including work on log-Euclidean deformation analysis, efficient image registration, population-aware registration, and accelerated LGE-MRI acquisition.
Sanjay Bhandari Joins MedVIC
Sanjay Bhandari has joined MedVIC as a PhD student, working on statistical shape analysis and deep learning with NIH-NIDCD support.
Shireen Appointed Associate Editor at MELBA and Editorial Board Member at Scientific Reports
Prof. Elhabian has been appointed Associate Editor of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging and Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports.
NIH-NICHD and NIH-NIDCD R01s Awarded
MedVIC received co-investigator support on two new NIH R01 grants awarded in 2025, supporting biomechanics after transhumeral amputation and biomechanical mechanisms of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
ShapeMI Workshop Organized at MICCAI 2025
Prof. Elhabian co-organized the Shape in Medical Imaging workshop at MICCAI 2025, continuing a multi-year leadership role in the shape modeling community.
Jadie Adams Graduates, Joins Kitware Inc.
Dr. Jadie Adams defended her PhD dissertation and joined Kitware Inc. as a Research Scientist after producing major work on probabilistic shape modeling, VIB-DeepSSM, and Point2SSM.
Hong Xu Graduates, Now Assistant Professor at Rhodes College
Dr. Hong Xu graduated and is now an Assistant Professor at Rhodes College. His dissertation work focused on deep learning and image analysis for scalable shape modeling.
Point2SSM Accepted at ICLR 2024 as Spotlight
Point2SSM was accepted at ICLR 2024 as a Spotlight paper, marking an important expansion of MedVIC's shape modeling work into the broader machine learning community.
Best Student Paper: Krithika Iyer at MIUA 2024
Krithika Iyer received the Best Student Paper Award at MIUA 2024 for SCorP, a statistics-informed dense correspondence method for unsegmented medical images.