News

🎉09/2025: Ye Tian's first-author paper on "OCTDiff: Bridged Diffusion Model for Portable OCT Super-Resolution and Enhancement" has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as a spotlight talk - heartiest congrats to all co-authors Angela McCarthy, Gabriel Gomide, Nancy Liddle, Jed Golebka, Royce Chen, Jeff Liebmann!

🎉08/2025: Congratulations Michael Lau, Angela McCarthy, Ye Tian, Chris Nielsen, Rashmi Chelliah, Sina Gholami, Andrea Kossler, Minhaj Alam, Lora Glass on our paper "FedTED: Federated Learning for Robust Thyroid Eye Disease Detection with Masked Autoencoders" accepted for presentation at IEEE BHI 2025 in October in Atlanta, Georgia!!

🎉07/2025: Congratulations Roshan Kenia, Anfei Li, Rishabh Srivastava on our paper accepted for publication in MELBA (the Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging Journal) on "AI-CNet3D: An Anatomically-Informed Cross-Attention Network with Multi-Task Consistency Fine-tuning for 3D Glaucoma Classification."

🎉07/2025: Congratulations to Benji Freeman, Kuang Sun,  Roshan Kenia, Anfei Li, Steve Feiner on our demo paper on "AR Visualization of Cross-Attention Enhanced Biomedical Image Volumes for AI-assisted Disease Diagnosis" accepted for presentation at IEEE ISMAR 2025 to be held in Korea this October. 

🎉07/2025: Kavi has earned a Research to Prevent Blindness/Tom Wertheimer Career Development Award in Data Science to support AI4VS Lab's work on oculomics! 

🥇07/2025: Angela's paper (AI4VS Lab's first on AI and ethics) has been accepted for publication in Ophthalmology Science!  Read it here.

🛬05/2025: Erica, Michael, Roshan, and Kavi presented at ARVO 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah!  Congrats to our six 2025 MS graduates Erica, Loaah, Rashmi, Roshan, Sana, and Tom!  Kavi co-organized an FL workshop as part of the AI@VP&S Initiative and presented on the lab's ongoing FL projects; an article about the the workshop is featured here.  Kavi also presented at the Ophthalmic AI Summit; watch her presentation here.

👍04/2025: John, Leo, Kuang Angel, and David's paper on a user study of an expert eye-movement-informed AI System for guiding resident OCT-image viewing behavior was accepted and presented at the ACM SIG CHI conference as Late Breaking Work!

📀02/2025: Benji and Roshan and Kuang's augmented reality system for visualizing 3D OCT volumes superimposed with AI attention maps was featured and highlighted as part of the AI@VP&S kickoff Demo Day! 

🎄01/2025: Kavi presented the work of Arnav Meduri on AI-based segmentation of PVOs to expedite retinal tear detection at SPIE 2025 in San Francisco, CA! 

🗣️11/2024: Tom and Kavi presented papers and Kavi co-led a special session on AI in Ophthalmology at IEEE BHI 2024 in Houston, TX! 

🏫09/2024: Our lab’s work has been featured by Columbia DSI - thanks to all of you - great job AI4VS Lab!! 

👏09/2024: Two papers accepted for presentation at the IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics conference in Texas in November - congratulations Tom Le and Kuang Sun for our paper on “Predicting Ophthalmologist Gaze Patterns on OCT Data with Masked Autoencoders and Long Short-Term Memory Networks” and Shubham Kaushal, Roshan Kenia and Saanvi Aima for our paper on “Medical-Expert Eye Movement Augmented Vision Transformers” !

🎉09/2024:  Congratulations Ye Tian, Anurag Sharma, Shubh Mehta, and Shubham Kaushal on our paper accepted to ARVO's TVST journal!