Hi everyone! Our lab twitter is now active on Bluesky, hope to see everyone there! kurtlab.bsky.social

🚀 Call for Participation: 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗤𝗔-𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘 @ 𝗖𝗟𝗘𝗙 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 We're excited to introduce the MEDIQA-CORE 2026 shared tasks, focused on advancing clinically grounded multimodal AI models built for real-world clinical workflows and evaluated on real clinical data. 🔹 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝟏: 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Develop models that combine brain MRI images, H&E pathology slides, and pathology reports to predict tumor subtypes while being robust to missing modalities, reflecting how data actually becomes available in clinical practice. 🔹 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝟮: 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 Build multimodal systems that analyze 3D abdominal CT scans, preliminary radiology reports, and candidate report edits to assess image-text agreement, clinical severity, and discrepancy type, simulating real radiology review workflows. Huge thanks to our collaborators at the University of Washington, especially Meliha Yetisgen, and @KurtLabResearch for their hard work in preparing the data usage agreements to make participant access possible. And many thanks to the @imageclef organizers, @henmueller1 and Cristian Stanciu, and Bogdan Ionescu for their continued support! We're looking forward to seeing the community's ideas and participation! 🌐 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: imageclef.org/2026/medical/m…  📩 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁: mediqa.organizers@gmail.com 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗤𝗔 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁: groups.google.com/g/mediqa-n… 📅 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: ♦️ Registration closes: 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 ♦️ Test set release: April 23, 2026 ♦️ Run submission deadline: May 7, 2026 ♦️ Paper submission deadline: May 28, 2026 ♦️ CLEF 2026 Conference: September 21-24, 2026 (Jena, Germany) 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝟭 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿𝘀: • Asma Ben Abacha, Microsoft • Wen-wai Yim, Microsoft • Daniel K Low, University of Washington, Kurtlab • @Juampablo_24, University of Washington, Kurtlab • Mehmet Kurt, University of Washington, Kurtlab • Jake Ruzevick, UW Medicine, Neurosurgery • Daniel D. Child, UW Medicine, Pathology 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝟮 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿𝘀: • Asma Ben Abacha, Microsoft • Wen-wai Yim, Microsoft • @ZhaoyiSun6, University of Washington • Meliha Yetisgen, University of Washington • Fei Xia, University of Washington #MEDIQA #ImageCLEF #CLEF2026 #SharedTask #MultimodalAI #ClinicalAI #MedicalImaging #Radiology

🙌🤩.. super proud of @Juampablo_24 #SPARK instructor & @KurtLabResearch winning paper on #ISLES #segmentation made resource efficient for potential use in constraints imaging and much more —#MIRASOL workshop #MICCAI25 @MICCAI_Society

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UW Mechanical Engineering is hiring! We have multiple faculty positions available, including one in medical imaging physics. Please feel free to DM me with any questions and hope you help spread the word! me.washington.edu/about/job-…

Come and become our colleague @UWBioE! We are hiring a faculty member in medical imaging & AI (see specific areas of interest below), feel free to amplify and contact us if you have any questions!

New 20hr bootcamp on Probability & Statistics!!! Videos released weekly but full playlist already posted: youtube.com/watch?v=sQqniayn… Probability & Statistics are cornerstones of data science and machine learning. This course rapidly covers the basics and gets into advanced topics.

Congratulations to our Kurtlab team for winning the ISLES 2024 stroke lesion segmentation challenge at #MICCAI2024 @MICCAI_Society @Tianyi_R @Juampablo_24 @ME_at_UW @UWNeurosurgery

University of Washington biochemist David Baker has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work designing new proteins that can neutralize viruses, target cancer cells, and more. Read more from @uwmedicine: go.uw.edu/2024NobelPrize #NobelPrize #GoHuskies

New paper out in Brain Multiphysics! In this collab. work, we demonstrated that Chiari Malformation I patients have increased brain motion, a potential indicator for surgical outcomes. @ShrivastavaMD @MataiResearch @MountSinaiNeuro @DrMichaelLevitt sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Hi Marrakech! 👋 We will be presenting our deep-learning based brain tumor and stroke lesion segmentation algorithms at #MICCAI2024 @MICCAI_Society, come say hi!

If you are interested in Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging, check our new Youtube Channel with recordings of the events we have been organizing around this topic!

Join us for this exciting September Edition of COMPASS seminar series as Dr. Celia Cintas from IBM Research Africa discusses fairness in machine learning for dermatology! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… @mriuganda @mailab_io @naamii_nepal @The_MiND_Lab

The ALBA Gender & Sexual Diversity working group is running a global survey to understand the experiences of #LGBTQIA individuals in #neuroscience (including #psychology & #psychiatry). It takes just 10-20 min, plus a chance to win a gift card! 🧠🏳️‍🌈🎉 👉 tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro @TMR_et_al @DoriGrijseels @jordanmarrocco @HidaBanks @Bittu_K_R @DPagliaccio @PeppeGanga @freemanjb @zamakany @KurtLabResearch @oliveira_vinie @ArishMRL

Thrilled to be in Quebec City this week attending the @ISMRM workshop on Motion Correction!

🚨New paper with @ShrivastavaMD in @WorldNeurosurg! We conducted morphometric analysis in CM-1 patients and found that the amount of tissue at the foramen magnum correlates with CM-1 more so than tonsillar length. @MountSinaiNeuro @UWNeurosurgery sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

One of the fun summer projects we have been doing as a lab is to participate in the Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge (@BraTS_challenge) as part of @MICCAI_Society. Congrats to the team for successfully submitting their algorithms!

Between applying nonlinear dynamics to brain biomechanics research and leading multiple mentorship efforts for LGBTQ students in STEM, MechSE alumnus Mehmet Kurt (PhD ME 2014) stays busy: mechse.illinois.edu/news/678… @stemvillage @KurtLabResearch

Thank you to my alma matter Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois @mechseILLINOIS for highlighting our research and LGBTQ mentorship activities. You can read more below: mechse.illinois.edu/news/678…

Bonjour Paris! I am excited to attend MIDL Conference 2024 this week! I presented our work on using diffusion models for brain tumor segmentation this morning, feel free to reach out with questions, if you are attending the conference!