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The i2i Workshop brings experts from academia, industry, and tech to NYU Langone’s campus for discussions about the latest breakthroughs in imaging hardware, software, image analysis, and image-guided therapy.

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This October, the i2i Workshop will explore what’s new and what’s next in biomedical imaging research through the prism of learning.

While human learning is fundamental to science, machine learning underpins the AI tools that are reshaping all facets of radiology. Join us to explore these biological and technological forces vital to continued innovation in imaging.

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October 21-22 in New York

Two days of scientific sessions dedicated to imaging innovation and exchange of ideas, hosted by the Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research at NYU Langone Health.

A big think on how learning is transforming biomedical imaging

Workshop speakers will examine the mechanisms of human learning and present work at the forefront of biomedical imaging methods being reshaped by artificial intelligence.

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The i2i Workshop combines thought-provoking ideas on the latest imaging science with the energy, enthusiasm, and fun of convening with researchers from across the country and the globe in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. We are hoping to see you at the workshop and are looking forward to hosting you in October.

Registration is $250 and includes admission to the scientific sessions; breakfast and lunch on both days; i2i Dinner on day one; and a closing evening reception on day two.

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Speakers

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Looking Forward to i2i 2026

Miriam Bredella, MD, MBA, on the the i2i Workshop and what she’s looking forward to at the 2026 meeting, via YouTube.
Dean Darnell, PhD, on the i2i Workshop and what he’s looking forward to at the 2026 meeting, via YouTube.

Meeting Program

Venue: NYU Langone Health, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Day One
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

  • 8:00–9:00 AM
    Registration and breakfast
  • 9:00–9:10 AM
    Welcome to the i2i Workshop
    Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD (NYU Langone)
  • 9:10–9:15 AM
    Greetings from NYU Langone Radiology Leadership
    Speakers TBA

Session 1
Introduction

  • 9:15–9:45 AM
    Learning in, from, and Through Imaging: Setting the Stage for This i2i Workshop
    Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD (NYU Langone)
  • 9:45–10:00 AM
    Coffee, refreshments, networking

Session 2
How We Learn

Moderated by Yvonne Lui, MD

  • 10:00–10:45 AM
    The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory
    Christina Alberini, PhD (New York University)
  • 10:45–11:15 AM
    What Happens When We Can’t Learn
    Nadine Gaab, PhD (Harvard University)
  • 11:15–11:45 AM
    What Happens When We Forget What We Learned
    Martin Sadowski, MD, PhD (NYU Langone)
    Timothy Shepherd, MD, PhD (NYU Langone)
  • 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
    Lunch

Session 3
How AI Emulates Learning

Moderated by Sumit Chopra, PhD

  • 12:45–1:15 PM
    Paying Attention and Other Strategies for Learning
    Matthew Muckley, PhD (AMI—Advanced Machine Intelligence)
  • 1:15–1:45 PM
    Leveraging Memory: In-Context Reinforcement Learning
    Ching Fang, PhD (Goodfire AI, Inc.)
  • 1:45–2:00 PM
    Coffee, refreshments, networking

Session 4
Learning Strategies in Imaging

Moderated by Ilias Giannakopoulos, PhD

  • 2:00–2:30 PM
    Self-Supervised Learning in Image Reconstruction
    Mehmet Akçakaya, PhD (University of Minnesota)
  • 2:30–3:00 PM
    Learning from Context to Accelerate MRI
    Li Feng, PhD (NYU Langone)
  • 3:00–3:30 PM
    Leveraging Physics for Learning in Imaging
    Jiayun “Peter” Wang, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Session 5
Poster Session

  • 3:20–4:00 PM
    Power-poster previews
  • 4:00–5:30 PM
    Poster viewing

    Open this card to view the poster list.
  1. 7T Sodium MRI Reveals Regional Sodium Dysregulation in Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy
    Nihal A et al.
  2. Optimization of B0 Shim Arrays for Head and Neck at Ultra-High Field MRI
    Brierre T et al.
  3. Exploring the Association Between Small Cerebral Veins and Microbleeds in Alzheimer’s Disease with 7T QSM
    Chiu M et al.
  4. 7T Sodium MRI as a Potential Biomarker of Metabolic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
    Yazici L et al.
  5. Diffusion MRI Reveals Microstructural Changes Along the Optic Pathways in Multiple Sclerosis: Validation with Optical Coherence Tomography
    Ali Khan L et al.
  6. B0-Restore: Low-B-Value Signal Correction for Robust Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI)
    Chen J et al.
  7. Distortion-free High-SNR DWI Through Quadratic Phase Modulated Spin Refocusing
    Chen J et al.
  8. Toward a Standardized Spatio-Angular Convolutional Paradigm for Diffusion-Weighted MRI
    Cortés G et al.
  9. In Vivo Quantification of Unmyelinated Axons to Characterize White Matter Demyelinating Conditions Using Diffusion MRI
    Coronado-Leija R et al.
  10. Advanced Microstructure Diffusion Models in Pediatric Chemo Brain
    Nandi S et al.
  11. Probing Brain Microstructure in Autoimmune Encephalitis-Associated Epilepsy: Insights from the Connectom.X Ultra-Strong Gradient Diffusion MRI
    Filipiak P et al.
  12. From 1- to 3-Dimensional Diffusion of Metabolites in the Human Brain: OGSE Frequencies up to 160 Hz on the Connectom.X
    Mosso J et al.
  13. Diffusion MRI of Normal-Appearing White Matter Complements Structural MRI Markers of Disability in Multiple Sclerosis
    Stepanov VN et al.
  14. A Geometry-Aware Spoke-as-Token Transformer for Projection-Domain Denoising of Stack-of-Stars Breast MRI
    Talaie P et al.
  15. Local Universal Sampling Denoising (L-USD): Scalable MP-PCA for Non-Cartesian MRI
    Hassanin O et al.
  16. Time-Resolved Multiecho 4D MRI for Robust Free-Breathing PDFF and R2* Quantification Across Field Strengths
    Wong J et al.
  17. Separable Subspace Reconstruction with Coefficient-Domain Sparsity for Highly Accelerated Multidimensional MRI
    Hassanpour Golagani E et al.
  18. DeepGrasp: A Unified All-in-One Self-Supervised Model for Accelerated 4D Radial MRI Across Organs, Resolutions, and Dynamics
    Pei H et al.
  19. Longitudinal MRI Reconstruction Leveraging Patient-Specific Group Sparsity from Prior Images
    Janjušević N et al.
  20. Accelerated Background-Suppressed Stack-of-Spirals Multi-TE pCASL MRI for Blood-Brain Barrier Water Permeability Imaging
    Li Y et al.
  21. Enabling Clinically Feasible Blood-Brain Barrier Water Permeability Measurement with Highly Accelerated TE-Resolved ASL
    Liang X et al.
  22. Quantifying Uncertainty with MR-PhICC: MRI Reconstruction with Physics-Informed Conformal Calibration
    Gera N et al.
  23. Beyond Fast Mapping: Uncertainty-Calibrated T1ρ Relaxometry for Trustworthy Quantitative Knee MRI
    Singh D et al.
  24. An Interpretable and Trustworthy AI Framework for Large-Scale Longitudinal Structure-Pain Association Studies in Knee Osteoarthritis Using the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)
    Yu J et al.
  25. Locating Superimposed Finger Activation in the Primary Motor Cortex Using Connectome with Simple Block Design Stimulation
    Bruno M et al.
  26. Anyone’s Guess—Neuroanatomy Expertise Versus Brain Mapping fMRI for Predicting Eloquent Cortex in Neurosurgery Patients
    Ressa G et al.
  27. Quantitative Magnetization Transfer MRI and Histopathology in Alzheimer’s Disease Tissue
    Maatman I et al.
  28. Investigating Early AD Pathology Using Magnetic Resonance, Spectroscopic Fingerprinting, and Tau/Amyloid-PET
    Emeliyanova P et al.
  29. Characterization and Correction of Fuzzy Ripple Artifacts in High-Resolution EPI using Dynamic AC/DC B0 Shim Control
    Hong H et al.
  30. Real-Time Shimming of Respiration-Induced B0 Fluctuations in the Spinal Cord with an Integrated RF/Shim iPRES(3) Coil Array and Ultrasound-Based OCM Sensor
    Wong EY et al.
  31. Mask-Mounted Local B0 Shimming for Dental-Metal Off-Resonance
    Amrein P et al.
  32. A New Strategy for Metal Artifact Reduction: High-Bandwidth MRI Enabled by Self-Supervised Denoising
    Luo R et al.
  33. Subject-Specific Low-Field MRI Synthesis via a Neural Operator
    Gao Z et al.
  34. Evaluating Deep Learning-Based Quantification of Breast Arterial Calcification on Mammography for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
    Singh P et al.
  35. Pharmacokinetic Modeling with a Convolutional Neural Network of Hyperpolarized 13C-Pyruvate MRI Metabolism in the Human Heart
    Quicana M et al.
  36. Development of Optics for a Multimodal Functional Organoid MRI Setup
    Cloos M et al.
  37. SeqEyes-Plus: A Browser-Native, Multi-Environment Viewer for Interactive Pulseq Sequence Inspection
    Hong H et al.
  38. Efficient MoE-Enhanced Vision Transformer with Adaptive Token Sampling for Cross-Scanner OCT Classification
    Lee E et al.

i2i Dinner Reception

  • 6:00–10:00 PM
    Docks Oyster Bar
    633 Third Avenue
    New York, NY 10017

Day Two
Thursday, October 22, 2026

  • 8:15–9:00 AM
    Breakfast
  • 9:00–9:15 AM
    Introduction to Day Two of the i2i Workshop
    Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD (NYU Langone)

Session 6
Plenary Presentation

  • 9:15–10:00 AM
    AI + Science
    Paris Perdikaris, PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
  • 10:00–10:15 AM
    Coffee, refreshments, networking

Session 7
Learning Your Way Through K-Space

Moderated by Patricia Johnson, PhD

  • 10:15–10:45 AM
    Cherry-picking K-Space: Smart Sampling Strategies
    Marcelo Zibetti, PhD (NYU Langone)
  • 10:45–11:15 AM
    Dancing in K-t Space: Smart Trajectories for Dynamic MRI
    Fuyixue Wang, PhD (Harvard University)
  • 11:15–11:45 AM
    Dimension Hopping Between Q-Space and K-Space
    Santiago Coelho, PhD (NYU Langone)
  • 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
    Lunch and poster viewing

Session 8
Putting Learning into Practice: Innovative MRI Hardware

Moderated by Ryan Brown, PhD

  • 12:45–1:15 PM
    A Roadmap to 14-tesla MRI
    Martijn Cloos, PhD (Radboud University Nijmgen)
  • 1:15–1:45 PM
    Wireless Coils Are Not Hallucinations
    Dean Darnell, PhD (Duke University)
  • 1:45–2:15 PM
    The Phantom Awakens: Next-Generation Anthropomorphic MRI Phantoms
    Michael “Miki” Lustig, PhD (University of California at Berkeley)
  • 2:15–2:30 PM
    Coffee, refreshments, networking

Session 9
Learning Healthcare Through Imaging Data

Moderated by Artie Shen, PhD

  • 2:30–3:00 PM
    Multimodal Foundation Models in Medical Imaging
    Narges Sharif Razavian, PhD (NYU Langone)
  • 3:00–3:30 PM
    Large Language Models in Radiology
    Akshay Chaudhari, PhD (Stanford University)
  • 3:30–4:00 PM
    Opportunistic Imaging
    Miriam Bredella, MD, MBA (NYU Langone)
  • 4:00–4:15 PM
    Coffee, refreshments, networking

Session 10
Learning Beyond Anatomy: Microstructural Tissue Characterization

Moderated by Dmitry Novikov, PhD

  • 4:15–4:45 PM
    Photoacoustic Tomography
    Lihong Wang, PhD (Caltech)
  • 4:45–5:15 PM
    Tissue Microstructure Imaging with Diffusion MRI
    Hong-Hsi Lee, MD, PhD (Harvard University)
  • 5:15–5:45 PM
    Genetically Engineered MRI Contrast
    Arnab Mukherjee, PhD (University of California at Santa Barbara)

Session 11
Wrap-up

  • 5:45–6:00 PM
    Summary of Take-Home Messages; Poster Awards; Closing Remarks
    Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD, and Hersh Chandarana, MD (NYU Langone)
  • 6:00–8:00 PM
    Poster viewing and closing reception

Call for abstracts has closed.

Presentation guidelines will be posted in September. Presenters will be notified by email.

Suggested Topics

We welcome abstracts with technical or clinical focus on one or more of the following research areas:

  • MRI acquisition
  • MRI reconstruction
  • MRI technology
  • computational imaging
  • functional imaging
  • quantitative imaging
  • imaging of tissue microstructure
  • machine learning and deep learning in biomedical imaging
  • foundation models in radiology

If you wish to submit an abstract on a different topic, write the organizers at i2iworkshop@nyulangone.org using the subject line: Abstract Topic Inquiry.

Length and Format

Limit your abstract—including all text, images, tables, graphs, and references—to one U.S.-letter or A4 page. Use Arial font, 9-point or larger. Set text in a single column.

Include all the following sections in the given order:

  1. Abstract Title
  2. Author List
  3. Purpose (motivations or aims of the research)
  4. Methods
  5. Results (principal data and statistical analysis)
  6. Discussion (data interpretation)
  7. Conclusion (relevance to clinical practice or further research)

References are optional.

Submissions

Email your abstract to i2iworkshop@nyulangone.org, with the subject line: Abstract for 2026 i2i Workshop.

In the body of the email include the following information:

  1. Presenter’s name: last name in all capitals followed by a comma and first name capitalized, e.g., SMITH, Mary or JOHNSON, William R.
  2. Presenter’s position: faculty, post-doc, fellow, resident, graduate student, undergraduate student, or other (specify).
  3. Abstract title.
  4. List of financial conflicts of interest if such exist. Otherwise, an assertion that there are no such conflicts.

Dates and Deadlines

Deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday, July 1 Sunday, July 19, 2026, 11:59 EDT.

Notifications will be emailed by Friday, July 31, 2026.

Why attend the i2i Workshop?

At the i2i Workshop, we take the latest research breakthroughs as a point of departure to ask big questions about the future of biomedical imaging. Our inaugural meeting in 2016 featured sessions titled “our dream scanners” and “the information tsunami.” The 2018 workshop included sessions dedicated to portable MRI scanners and emerging flexible RF coil technologies. The 2023 sessions explored a broad look at vision, sight, and imaging across modalities, length scales, and domains of inquiry.

A five-minute documentary about the 2023 edition of the i2i Workshop, via YouTube.

Two Days Packed with Science

The i2i Workshop packs two days chock full of scientific sessions and evening events. Plenaries, keynotes, talks, and poster sessions are held at NYU Langone Health. Evening events have involved dinner receptions on the East River, a cruise around New York harbor, and cocktails on the Intrepid, an aircraft carrier turned museum, permanently docked on the Hudson River.

Past Meetings

Browse the meeting programs from the 2023, 2018, and 2016 i2i workshops. Watch talk recordings and view poster PDFs.

i2i 2023

i2i 2018

i2i 2016

Come Curious, Leave Inspired

After the 2018 and 2023 workshops, we asked attendees to rate their experience on a ten-point scale. Here are some of their comments.

Great variety of expert speakers.

9/10, i2i 2023

Very well organized, interesting topics, and engaging poster session.

10/10, i2i 2023

Interesting talks from various areas … well structured.

10/10, i2i 2023

Nice for networking.

10/10, i2i 2023

Great speakers, smooth experience, rewarding conversations, fun venues for the receptions.

10/10, i2i 2018

Excellent venue, great attendees and impressive social.

8/10, i2i 2018

Like a Gordon conference … the topics are interesting … a lot of interactions happen during the breaks.

10/10, i2i 2018

Diverse program of new innovations—stimulating.

9/10, i2i 2018

Very rewarding.

10/10, i2i 2018

I will definitely be planning on attending the next i2i Workshop.

10/10, i2i 2018

Workshop Chairs

  • Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD
  • Hersh Chandarana, MD

Organizing Committee

  • Ana Rejon, MS
  • Pawel Slabiak, MA
  • Marisa Costello
  • Michelle Koplik

Contact

i2iworkshop@nyulangone.org