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Celebrating Major Milestones - Bioengineering and Radiology

 

August 20, 2025 - Please join us in congratulating our multiple trainees on their major milestone accomplishments over the past few months. Your outstanding contributions are advancing the field of bioengineering and cardiothoracic imaging, and we are incredibly proud of your achievements.

PhD Candidacy Advancements

  • Amin Mahmoodi advanced to candidacy for a PhD in Bioengineering for his thesis proposal on "Deep Learning Physiologic Phase Estimation for Cardiac MRI." The first chapter of his thesis has been accepted for publication in Rad: Cardiothoracic Imaging.

  • Alta Steward advanced to candidacy for a PhD in Bioengineering for her thesis proposal on "Synthetic Deformations for Deep Learning Motion Estimation and Image Coregistration in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging."

  • Akhilesh Yeluru advanced to candidacy for a PhD in Bioengineering for his thesis proposal on "Deep Learning for Improved Automation, Visualization, and Quantification of Cardiac Hemodynamics."

Fellowship and Research Achievements

  • Brendan Crabb continues to be self-funded through a substantive portion of his first year of residency clinical training on his $140k AHA Fellowship, and had two abstracts accepted to RSNA on "Feasibility of Assessing Neopulmonary Stenosis Severity Using 4D Flow Waveforms in Patients with Transposition of the Great Arteries: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Cohort Study" and "Discriminative Performance of a Deep Learning-Based Regional Strain Analysis for the Detection of Right Ventricular Wall Motion Abnormalities in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy."

  • Roshun Sankaran is also partially self-funded on his ACR Nieman Health policy grant. His paper on inspiratory-expiratory CT in lung transplants is currently in press in Rad: Cardiothoracic Imaging. He is also leading our team for the study "Comparative effectiveness of gadopiclenol for evaluation of adult congenital heart anatomy and hemodynamics," which was accepted for oral presentations at RSNA and NASCI.

Key Contributions and Presentations

  • Marlene Goetz, thank you for your major contributions to this work and for presenting it at NASCI.

  • Yasmine Kasiri, thank you also for continuing this important work with patient recruitment with on-site help from Akhilesh and Amin. Yasmine will also be presenting our findings on the Bayer CTEPH.AI algorithm at RSNA, showing that trained subspecialty radiologists are actually quite good at detecting CTEPH when provided a formal rubric. The CTEPH.AI algorithm approaches this level of performance.

  • Sophie Wong continues to work tirelessly as a research author for the ACR appropriateness criteria paper for imaging in "Valvular heart disease." As many of you know, the ACR appropriateness criteria are important for health policy and reimbursements for cardiac CT and MRI in the future, and are an important service for the sustainability of our field. She now probably knows more about imaging in valve disease than I do. As many faculty previously indicated, she was stronger clinically as a first-year resident than most residents in their third year of training.