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Honor Roll Lab Talk

Artie Shen on Interpreting AI, Learning New Hypotheses, and ‘Fortune Telling’

Yiqiu “Artie” Shen, machine learning researcher who develops artificial intelligence systems for medical imaging, talks about AI’s ability to explain itself, guide discovery, and predict cancer risk.

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Ilias Giannakopoulos on Matrices, Electromagnetics, and Role Models

Ilias Giannakopoulos, postdoctoral fellow in MRI, talks about how electromagnetic waves interact with the body, why matrix compression matters, and where he finds inspiration.

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Honor Roll Science Life

Leon Axel Receives SCMR Gold Medal Award

The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance has bestowed its highest honor on Leon Axel, radiologist, scientist, and longtime developer of MRI methods to better understand the heart.

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Honor Roll Research Brief

Diffusion MRI Study of Concussion Distinguished by AJNR

A multicompartment diffusion MRI analysis of football athletes adds to the body of evidence linking concussion and repeated head impacts to changes in the corpus callosum.

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Research Brief Honor Roll

A Challenge to Find Small Lesions in Torrents of Data Highlights Difficulties for Humans and Machines

NYU researchers won a deep learning challenge to detect lesions in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images. We discuss the obstacles that DBT poses to deep learning and look at how our team navigated them.

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Daniel Sodickson on the Secret Behind a Decade of Growth

Daniel Sodickson, vice chair for research at NYU Langone’s radiology department, talks about cultivating talent, finding “a room of one’s own,” and distrusting startup packages.