Undergraduate Thesis Students

2024/09 – 2025/04               Primary Supervisor, Connor Ludwig. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Medical image segmentation with missing data.

2024/09 – 2025/04               Primary Supervisor, Felicia Liu. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Evaluation of large language models for radiology.

2024/09 – 2025/04               Primary Supervisor, Sanzhe Feng. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Data visualization for radiology.

2024/09 – 2025/04 Primary Supervisor, Martin Licht. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Analyzing research papers using NLP tools to explore the use of machine learning in healthcare

Alumni

PhD Students (1)

2019/09 – 2020/12               Primary Supervisor, Ruqian Hao. Visiting PhD, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. Data augmentation and active learning strategies for cancer detection in MRI using convolutional neural networks.

MSc/MASc/MEng Students (14)

2022/09 – 2024/01               Primary Supervisor, Simon (Meng) Zhou. MSc, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. GAN-based data augmentation for pediatric brain MRIs.

2023/05 – 2023/12               Primary Supervisor, Yuxuan Wang. MScAC, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. A language model to draft highly personalized preliminary radiology reports for X-rays.

2022/09 – 2023/12               Primary Supervisor, Chen Zhao. MEng, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Interpretable key-phrases extraction for pediatric brain tumor pathologies from radiology reports using Large Language Models.

2022/09 – 2023/12               Primary Supervisor, Yann Shaw. MEng, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Preprocessing pediatric brain MRI.

2022/09 – 2023/11               Primary Supervisor, Chaojun (Vicky) Chen. MEng, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Unsupervised learning for anomaly detection in brain MRI.

2021/09 – 2023/08               Primary Supervisor, Jay Yoo. MSc, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. Investigating ROI-independent segmentation and classification of glioma in MR images and of liver fibrosis detection in CT Images.

2021/09 – 2022/12               Primary Supervisor, Yujie Wu. MEng, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Deep learning for cobb angle measurement in X-ray Scoliosis images.

2020/09 – 2022/08               Primary Supervisor, Partoo Vafaeikia. MSc, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. Deep learning methods for pediatric brain tumour diagnosis.

2020/09 – 2022/08               Primary Supervisor, Sajith Rajapaska. MSc, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. Weakly supervised perturbation-based method for 3D brain tumour segmentation.

2021/05 – 2022/04               Primary Supervisor, Yue Tong Leung. MEng, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Exploring COVID-19 related stressors using topic modeling.

2021/01 – 2022/04               Primary Supervisor, Zilun Zhang. MEng, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Introducing Vision Transformer for Alzheimer’s disease classification task with 3D input

2019/09 – 2021/08               Primary Supervisor, Saman Motamed. MSc, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. A semi-supervised pipeline for detection of anomalies in medical images.

2017/09 – 2019/08               Primary Supervisor, Yucheng Zhang. MSc, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. Deep radiomics analytics pipeline for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

2013/05 – 2015/04               Co-Supervisor, Zehra Camlica. MSc, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. Image area reduction for efficient medical image retrieval.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows (4)

2023/09 – 2024/06               Primary Supervisor, Xuan Liu. SickKids Research Institute. Artificial Intelligence for equitable healthcare delivery in diagnostic imaging.

2015/09 – 2017/12               Primary Supervisor, Junjie Zhang. Sunnybrook Research Institute. AI-driven computational diffusion MR imaging techniques for prostate cancer diagnosis.

2015/09 – 2016/08               Co-Supervisor, Armin Eilaghi. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Radiomics analysis and radiologic-pathologic correlates of biomarkers of therapy response assessment with MRI for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

2011/05 – 2012/04               Primary Supervisor, Amirhosein Nabatchian. Industry. Design and implementation of modality-independent toolkit for auto-segmentation of multiple lesions/organs.

Research Assistants/Associates (7)

2024/07 – 2024/12               Primary Supervisor, Daniel Rafique. The Hospital for Sick Children. Artificial Intelligence for equitable healthcare delivery in diagnostic imaging.

2024/03 – 2024/12               Primary Supervisor, Chaojun (Vicky) Chen. The Hospital for Sick Children. Automating cobb angle measurement using machine learning.

2022/09 – 2024/01                Primary Supervisor, Sajith Rajapaska. The Hospital for Sick Children. Weakly supervised perturbation-based methods for object segmentation.

2021/04 – 2022/03               Primary Supervisor, Maryam Taheri-Shirazi. The Hospital for Sick Children. Compassionate AI: Optimizing Diagnostic Imaging scheduling for equitable access.

2019/01 – 2021/08               Primary Supervisor, Khashayar Namdar. The Hospital for Sick Children. Deep learning solutions for cancer diagnosis and prognosis in medical imaging.

2019/07 – 2020/01               Primary Supervisor, Nabila Abraham. Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System. Deep 3D convolutional neural networks for cancer diagnosis and prognosis.

2016/09 – 2017/04               Primary Supervisor, Zhihao Gao. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Statistical analysis for prostate cancer risk stratification via medical imaging and clinical risk factors.

Undergraduate Thesis Students (13)

2022/09 – 2023/04               Primary Supervisor, Katarina Chiam. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Investigating structural similarity index measure for outlier detection in automated classification of BRAF status for pediatric low-grade gliomas using FLAIR-MRI.

2022/09 – 2023/04               Primary Supervisor, Arsh Kadakia. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Improving the generalizability of pediatric low-grade glioma segmentation models.

2022/05 – 2022/09               Primary Supervisor, Justin Xue. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Radiomics and residual neural networks for pretherapeutic MRI differentiation of BRAF status in pediatric low-grade gliomas.

2021/09 – 2022/04               Primary Supervisor, Haiyue (Kevin) Jin. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. A Graphical User Interface to construct convolutional neural networks in Radiology.

2021/09 – 2022/04               Primary Supervisor, Akino Watanabe. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Improving disease classification performance and explainability of deep learning models in Radiology with heatmap generators.

2021/09 – 2022/04               Primary Supervisor, Martyn Wei. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Investigating visual explanations of CNN models for chest X-rays.

2021/09 – 2022/04               Primary Supervisor, Pranav Agnihotri. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Using multi-modal data for improving generalizability and explainability of disease classification in Radiology.

2021/09 – 2022/04               Primary Supervisor, Chaojun (Vicky) Chang. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Scoliosis assessment: Automating cobb angle measurement using segmentation method.

2020/09 – 2021/04               Primary Supervisor, Kevin Wang. Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto. Dimensionality reduction for radiomics-ML analytics pipelines using Autoencoders.

Undergraduate Research Students (12)

2021/05 – 2021-08               Primary Supervisor, Jay Yoo. SickKids Research Institute. Superpixel methods for medical imaging using Variational Autoencoders.

2018/05 – 2019/08               Primary Supervisor, Saman Motamed. Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System. Deep convolutional neural networks for prostate transition and peripheral zones segmentation.

2018/05 – 2018/12               Primary Supervisor, Phuong Le. Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System. Computer-aided detection for prostate cancer.

2017/05 – 2019/03               Primary Supervisor, Sunghwan Yoo. Sunnybrook Research Institute, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System. Deep convolutional neural networks for prostate cancer detection.

2017/05 – 2018/08               Primary Supervisor, Harry Kim. Sunnybrook Research Institute, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System. Database management for prostate cancer diagnosis.

2017/05 – 2017/08               Primary Supervisor, Jeffrey Francis. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Deep convolutional neural networks for prostate cancer detection.

2017/05 – 2017/08               Primary Supervisor, Dylan Clark. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Database management for prostate cancer diagnosis.

2016/09 – 2017/11               Primary Supervisor, Tyler Clark. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Prostate zone segmentation in diffusion-weighted MRI using deep learning.

2015/09 – 2017/08               Primary Supervisor, Yucheng Zhang. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Feature analysis in medical imaging for cancer characterization.

2015/09 – 2015/12               Primary Supervisor, Steven Ming. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Prostate cancer auto-detection via feature analysis of diffusion-weighted MRI.

2015/05 – 2015/08               Primary Supervisor, Derek Jedral. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Prostate PI-RADS zone segmentation for a computer-aided cancer detection tool.

2015/05 – 2015/08               Primary Supervisor, Nilaan Gunabalachandran. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Design and development of prostate zone segmentation in diffusion-weighted MRI.

Capstone Projects (4)

2023/09 – 2024/04               Primary Supervisor, Kaan Okman, Daniel Rafique, Michael Laccino, Tolga Tarlan, John Paul Kowanda. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. AI-assisted brain tumor segmentation add-on for 3D Slicer.

2022/09 – 2023/04               Primary Supervisor, Nada Al Aker, Justin Semelhago, Michael Simone, Rishik Kumar. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. 3D Slicer brain tumor segmentation add-on.

2020/09 – 2021/04               Primary Supervisor, Christina Seo, Bayaan Shalaby, Sheree Zhang, Litong Zheng. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Artificial Intelligence-based pediatric-specific solution for touchless interaction using voice control during image guided surgeries.

2020/09 – 2021/04               Primary Supervisor, Ines Gomes, Samuel McCulloch, Gabriella Tolnai, Lora Tyufekchieva. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. A front-end graphical user interface module design and implementation for Radiomics analytics pipeline in medical imaging using PyQt.