Dr. Sajid Ullah Khan | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Sajid Ullah Khan | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

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Chat-GPT; validating Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in education sector via ubiquitous learning mechanism

  • Authors: Naveed Saif, Sajid Ullah Khan, Imrab Shaheen, Faiz Abdullah ALotaibi, Mrim M Alnfiai, Mohammad Arif
  • Journal: Computers in Human Behavior
  • Year: 2024

Energy-efficient routing protocols for UWSNs: A comprehensive review of taxonomy, challenges, opportunities, future research directions, and machine learning perspectives

  • Authors: Sajid Ullah Khan, Zahid Ulalh Khan, Mohammed Alkhowaiter, Javed Khan, Shahid Ullah
  • Journal: Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences
  • Year: 2024

Multimodal medical image fusion towards future research: A review

  • Authors: Sajid Ullah Khan, Mir Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Azhar, Faheem Khan, Youngmoon Lee, Muhammad Javed
  • Journal: Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences
  • Year: 2023

Historical text image enhancement using image scaling and generative adversarial networks

  • Authors: Sajid Ullah Khan, Imdad Ullah, Faheem Khan, Youngmoon Lee, Shahid Ullah
  • Journal: Sensors
  • Year: 2023

A novel CT image de-noising and fusion based deep learning network to screen for disease (COVID-19)

  • Authors: Sajid Ullah Khan, Imdad Ullah, Najeeb Ullah, Sajid Shah, Mohammed El Affendi, Bumshik Lee
  • Journal: Scientific Reports
  • Year: 2023

Mr. Shuhuan Wang | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Mr. Shuhuan Wang | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Shuhuan Wang at Northeastern University, China

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DP-CLAM: A weakly supervised benign-malignant classification study based on dual-angle scanning ultrasound images of thyroid nodules

  • Authors: Wang, S., Zhang, S., Liao, L., Huang, L., Ma, H.
  • Journal: Medical Engineering and Physics
  • Year: 2025

A model fusion method based DAT-DenseNet for classification and diagnosis of aortic dissection

  • Authors: He, L., Wang, S., Liu, R., Ma, H., Wang, X.
  • Journal: Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine
  • Year: 2024

SRT: Swin-residual transformer for benign and malignant nodules classification in thyroid ultrasound images

  • Authors: Huang, L., Xu, Y., Wang, S., Sang, L., Ma, H.
  • Journal: Medical Engineering and Physics
  • Year: 2024

DPAM-PSPNet: Ultrasonic image segmentation of thyroid nodule based on dual-path attention mechanism

  • Authors: Wang, S., Li, Z., Liao, L., Huang, L., Ma, H.
  • Journal: Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Year: 2023

Dr. Zhicheng Zhang | Medical Physics | Best Researcher Award

Publications

Comprehensive assessment of immune context and immunotherapy response via noninvasive imaging in gastric cancer

  • Authors: Zepang Sun, Taojun Zhang, M Usman Ahmad, Zixia Zhou, Liang Qiu, Kangneng Zhou, Wenjun Xiong, Jingjing Xie, Zhicheng Zhang, Chuanli Chen, Qingyu Yuan, Yan Chen, Wanying Feng, Yikai Xu, Lequan Yu, Wei Wang, Jiang Yu, Guoxin Li, Yuming Jiang
  • Journal: The Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Year: 2024

Weakly supervised framework for cancer region detection of hepatocellular carcinoma in whole-slide pathologic images based on multiscale attention convolutional neural network

  • Authors: Songhui Diao, Yinli Tian, Wanming Hu, Jiaxin Hou, Ricardo Lambo, Zhicheng Zhang, Yaoqin Xie, Xiu Nie, Fa Zhang, Daniel Racoceanu, Wenjian Qin
  • Journal: The American journal of pathology
  • Year: 2022

Topological EEG nonlinear dynamics analysis for emotion recognition

  • Authors: Yan Yan, Xuankun Wu, Chengdong Li, Yini He, Zhicheng Zhang, Huihui Li, Ang Li, Lei Wang
  • Journal: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS
  • Year: 2022

Biology-guided deep learning predicts prognosis and cancer immunotherapy response

  • Authors: Yuming Jiang*, Zhicheng Zhang*, Wei Wang*, Weicai Huang*, Chuanli Chen, Sujuan Xi, M Usman Ahmad, Yulan Ren, Shengtian Sang, Jingjing Xie, Jen-Yeu Wang, Wenjun Xiong, Tuanjie Li, Zhen Han, Qingyu Yuan, Yikai Xu, Lei Xing, George A Poultsides, Guoxin Li, Ruijiang Li
  • Journal: Nature Communications
  • Year: 2023

Predicting peritoneal recurrence and disease-free survival from CT images in gastric cancer with multitask deep learning: a retrospective study

  • Authors: Yuming Jiang*, Zhicheng Zhang*, Qingyu Yuan*, Wei Wang*, Hongyu Wang, Tuanjie Li, Weicai Huang, Jingjing Xie, Chuanli Chen, Zepang Sun, Jiang Yu, Yikai Xu, George A Poultsides, Lei Xing, Zhiwei Zhou, Guoxin Li, Ruijiang Li
  • Journal: The Lancet Digital Health
  • Year: 2022

Prof Dr. Jinyuan Liao | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Prof Dr. Jinyuan Liao | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Jinyuan Liao at The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, China

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Assoc Prof Dr. Zheng Wang | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Assoc Prof Dr. Zheng Wang | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Zheng Wang at Hunan First Normal University, China

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Artificial intelligence-empowered assessment of bile duct stone removal challenges

  • Author: Zheng Wang; Hao Yuan; Kaibin Lin; Yu Zhang; Yang Xue; Peng Liu; Zhiyuan Chen; Minghao Wu
  • Journal: Expert Systems with Applications
  • Year: 2024

Influence of hair presence on dermoscopic image analysis by AI in skin lesion diagnosis

  • Author: Zheng Wang; Yang Xue; Haonan Xi; Xinyu Tan; Kaibin Lin; Chong Wang; Jianglin Zhang
  • Journal: Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Year: 2024

Author Correction: Radiomic and deep learning analysis of dermoscopic images for skin lesion pattern decoding

  • Author: Zheng Wang; Chong Wang; Li Peng; Kaibin Lin; Yang Xue; Xiao Chen; Linlin Bao; Chao Liu; Jianglin Zhang; Yang Xie
  • Journal: Scientific Reports
  • Year: 2024

AI fusion of multisource data identifies key features of vitiligo

  • Author: Zheng Wang
  • Journal: Scientific Reports
  • Year: 2024

Retrosynthetic analysis via deep learning to improve pilomatricoma diagnoses

  • Author: Zheng Wang
  • Journal: Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Year: 2023

Dr. Seyed Hani Hojjati | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Seyed Hani Hojjati | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at Weill Cornell Medicine, United States

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📋 Summary

Dr. Seyed Hani Hojjati is an accomplished Instructor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. With a robust background in mathematics, machine learning, signal processing, and image processing, Dr. Hojjati has significantly contributed to the field of neuroimaging, particularly in Alzheimer’s disease research. His innovative work integrates resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) to distinguish between healthy individuals and those progressing towards mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). His research has also expanded to include advanced modalities like diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and positron emission tomography (PET), with the goal of identifying reliable biomarkers for early neuropsychological changes.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2018)
    Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran
    Dissertation: Identification of Effective Brain Areas to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Using Resting-State fMRI and MRI
  • M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2013)
    Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran
    Dissertation: Energy Efficient Cooperative Spectrum Sensing by Multi-Antenna Sensor Network and Soft Computing Techniques
  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2011)
    University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Mazandaran, Iran
    Dissertation: Harmonic Analysis on Relays

💼 Professional Experience

Currently, Dr. Hojjati is an Instructor of Electrical Engineering at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in the Department of Radiology, Brain Health Imaging Institute. His work focuses on the underlying mechanisms of remote associations between amyloid-beta and tau depositions at preclinical stages of Alzheimer’s disease. He has contributed significantly to the harmonization and processing of multimodal imaging data and has played a pivotal role in various NIH-funded research projects. Prior to his current role, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate at WCM, where he designed neuropsychological tasks for fMRI scanners and developed novel preprocessing tools for PET data. Dr. Hojjati also held a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he focused on multimodal neuroimaging approaches to identify early neuropsychological changes in Alzheimer’s disease.

🏆 Honors and Awards

  • Travel Scholarship, Human Amyloid Imaging (2023)
  • Winter Travel Stipend Award, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (2019)
  • Outstanding Abstract Award, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (2019)
  • Travel Stipend Award, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2016)
  • Top Student Award, National Elites Foundation (2016)
  • Study Scholarship, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (2014)

🔬 Research and Skills 

Dr. Hojjati’s research expertise spans multiple neuroimaging modalities, including rs-fMRI, task-fMRI, MRI, PET, and DTI. He is proficient in machine learning, signal processing, and image processing, with a focus on developing innovative techniques for feature integration and selection in multimodal neuroimaging data. His technical skills include programming in Python, MATLAB, and C++, as well as using neuroimaging tools like FreeSurfer, FSL, and SPM. He is also experienced in statistical analysis and neuropsychological test design.

Publications

Reduction in Constitutively Activated Auditory Brainstem Microglia in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Authors: Butler, T., Wang, X., Chiang, G., Pascoal, T.A., Rosa-Neto, P.
  • Journal: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Year: 2024

Remote Associations Between Tau and Cortical Amyloid-β Are Stage-Dependent

  • Authors: Hojjati, S.H., Chiang, G.C., Butler, T.A., Devanand, D.P., Razlighi, Q.R.
  • Journal: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Year: 2024
Seeing Beyond the Symptoms: Biomarkers and Brain Regions Linked to Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Authors: Hojjati, S.H., Babajani-Feremi, A.
  • Journal: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Year: 2024

Prediction and Modeling of Neuropsychological Scores in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Multimodal Neuroimaging Data and Artificial Neural Networks

  • Authors: Hojjati, S.H., Babajani-Feremi, A.
  • Journal: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Year: 2022

Topographical Overlapping of the Amyloid-β and Tau Pathologies in the Default Mode Network Predicts Alzheimer’s Disease with Higher Specificity

  • Authors: Hojjati, S.H., Feiz, F., Ozoria, S., Razlighi, Q.R.
  • Journal: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Year: 2021

Mr. Spencer Upton | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Mr. Spencer Upton | Medical Image Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Spencer Upton at University of Missuour, United States

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 Academic Background:

Mr. Spencer Upton is a dedicated PhD student in Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), with extensive academic and professional experience in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. His career spans a range of roles from research assistantships to project coordination, and he has actively engaged in teaching and mentoring throughout his academic journey. Spencer's commitment to the field is evident in his contributions to various scientific communities and his recognition through multiple scholarships and awards.

Education:

Mr. Spencer began his academic career at Butler County Community College (BC3) in 2014 before earning a BS in Psychology with a focus on neuroscience and philosophy from Slippery Rock University (SRU) in 2019. He then pursued an MS in Integrative Neuroscience at Georgetown University (GU) from 2019 to 2020. Spencer is currently working towards a PhD in Cognition and Neuroscience at MU, where he also completed his MA. His doctoral research is supervised by Dr. Brett Froeliger.

Professional Experience:

Mr. Spencer’s professional journey includes roles such as a Research Specialist (Project Coordinator) at the Health Neuroscience Center, MU, where he managed research projects from 2020 to 2022. He has also worked in various capacities outside the academic realm, including as a landscaper and a front desk attendant. His early professional experiences include positions as a dishwasher, cashier, and warehouse attendant, reflecting a diverse work background.

 Research Interests:

Mr. Spencer’s research interests focus on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying addiction and motivation. His work includes exploring the effects of nicotine and other substances on cognitive processes and neural functioning. This interest is reflected in his involvement with organizations such as the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT), as well as his contributions as an assistant reviewer for journals like Addictive Behaviors and Neuropsychopharmacology.

💰 Honors and Scholarships:

He has received various honors and scholarships, such as the Biomedical Graduate Education Scholarship from GU (2019), and multiple scholarships from SRU, including the Rose and Dale Kaufman Scholarship (2018) and the Meiping Cheng Memorial Scholarship (2017). Notably, he received the Undergraduate Mentoring Award from MU in 2023.

👨‍🏫 Teaching Experience:

Mr. Spencer has been involved in teaching as an assistant for courses such as Psych3351: Positive Motivation and Psych 3160: Perception and Thought in Fall 2022. He also contributed as a lecturer for an MRI Workshop Series at the Cognitive Neuroscience Systems Core Facility.

 Publications:

Mesocorticolimbic system reactivity to alcohol use-related visual cues as a function of alcohol sensitivity phenotype: A pilot fMRI study
  • Authors: Roberto U Cofresí, Spencer Upton, Alexander A Brown, Thomas M Piasecki, Bruce D Bartholow, Brett Froeliger
  • Journal: Addiction Neuroscience
  • Year: 2024
Spencer Upton, Alexander A. Brown, Mojgan Golzy, Eric L. Garland and Brett Froeliger
  • Authors: S Upton
  • Journal: Addiction and the Brain: Current Knowledge, Methods, and Perspectives
  • Year: 2024
Toward Concurrent Identification of Human Activities with a Single Unifying Neural Network Classification: First Step
  • Authors: Andrew Smith, Musa Azeem, Chrisogonas O Odhiambo, Pamela J Wright, Hanim E Diktas, Spencer Upton, Corby K Martin, Brett Froeliger, Cynthia F Corbett, Homayoun Valafar
  • Journal: Sensors
  • Year: 2024
Associations between right inferior frontal gyrus morphometry and inhibitory control in individuals with nicotine dependence
  • Authors: Alexander A Brown, Spencer Upton, Stephen Craig, Brett Froeliger
  • Journal: Drug and alcohol dependence
  • Year: 2023
Effects of hyperdirect pathway theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation on inhibitory control, craving, and smoking in adults with nicotine dependence: A double-blind …
  • Authors: Spencer Upton, Alexander A Brown, Muaid Ithman, Roger Newman-Norlund, Greg Sahlem, Jim J Prisciandaro, Erin A McClure, Brett Froeliger
  • Journal: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Year: 2023