The Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research Symposium is open to all in the UCSF and scientific communities and features speaker presentations and a scientific poster session highlighting the innovative work being done in the department. A broad spectrum of topics are covered including cancer, neurodegenerative disease, musculoskeletal disease and cardiovascular disease. Information is provided on research in the areas of CT, MR, PET, SPECT, MEG, EEG, optical imaging, and ultrasound. In addition, artificial intelligence, medical informatics, and MR/CT contrast agent development are addressed.
The Hasegawa Award, honoring the memory of Bruce Hasegawa, PhD, recognizes the research of an outstanding Radiology and Biomedical Imaging graduate student or postdoctoral scholar, and is presented each year at the conclusion of the symposium. The Rahul Desikan MD Award is presented each year in memory of Dr. Rahul Desikan. The award recognizes the contributions of an outstanding junior faculty member.
23rd Annual Imaging Research Symposium
Thursday, November 5, 2026
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
UCSF Parnassus Campus
Symposium Co-Chairs
- Elizabeth George, MBBS
- Zhaoyang Fan, PhD
Join faculty, trainees, and researchers from across the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging for the 23rd Annual Imaging Research Symposium, showcasing innovative research, scientific collaboration, and advances in imaging science.
Agenda
| Time | Program | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 – 1:10 pm | Welcome Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, Vice Chair of Research |
Parnassus Campus Health Sciences West 300 |
| 1:10 – 2:22 pm |
Oral Presentations Session #1
|
Parnassus Campus Health Sciences West 300 |
| 2:22 – 2:50 pm | Poster Session #1 / Coffee & Tea Break | Parnassus Campus Millberry Union Conference Center |
| 2:50 – 4:02 pm |
Oral Presentations Session #2
|
Parnassus Campus Health Sciences West 300 |
| 4:02 – 4:20 pm |
Awards
|
Parnassus Campus Health Sciences West 300 |
| 4:20 – 5:00 pm | Poster Session #2 / Light Refreshments | Parnassus Campus Millberry Union Conference Center |
| 5:00 – 5:10 pm | Poster and Oral Presenter Awards & Closing | Parnassus Campus Millberry Union Conference Center |
Presentation Schedule – Session 1
Moderators: Zhaoyang Fan, PhD and Salil Soman, MD
| Time | Abstract # | Title | Author/Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:10 – 1:20 pm | 6 | Enzyme-mediated transformation of [18F]FDG for pathogen-specific PET imaging | Sanghee Lee |
| 1:20 – 1:30 pm | 47 | Reproducible Structural Connectivity of SCAN and Action-Mode Networks in the Human Thalamus | Alice Le Berre |
| 1:30 – 1:40 pm | 52 | SDUM-Flow: Data Synthesis and Augmentation for Robust Unrolled 4D-Flow MRI Reconstruction | Brenden Kadota |
| 1:40 – 1:50 pm | 43 | The H3K27M mutation drives a glycerophospholipid program in diffuse midline glioma that is detected by metabolic imaging | Tianrun Xiao |
| 1:50 – 2:00 pm | 8 | Arterial Spin-Labeling MRI at the Cortical-CSF Interface: A Novel Biomarker in Alzheimer Disease | Mona Asghariahmadabad |
| 2:00 – 2:10 pm | 50 | Deep-Learning Motion-Corrected Reconstruction for Free-Breathing High-Resolution Spiral First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion: From 1.5 Hours per Slice to Seconds | Quan Chen |
| 2:10 – 2:12 pm | 21 | AAA-Track An Evidence-Gated Framework for Trustworthy Longitudinal Quantitative AAA Imaging | Seema Singh Saharan |
| 2:12 – 2:14 pm | 59 | MedAdaptAgent: Adapting Medical Imaging AI to New Hospitals | Hanxue Gu |
| 2:14 – 2:16 pm | 63 | mplicit Neuro Representation and Scout-based Multi-Echo NAvigator (INR-SMENA) for high-resolution motion and δB0 tracking | Nan Wang |
| 2:16 – 2:18 pm | 5 | Treatment of Prostate Cancer Xenografts with177Lu/225Ac Labeled Base-Cleavable starPEG nanocarriers | Megha Basak |
| 2:18 – 2:20 pm | 64 | Hyperpolarized 13C MRI robustly assesses response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer patient-derived xenografts | Said Al Muzahimi |
| 2:20 – 2:22 pm | 22 | Glial metabolic alterations in an Alzheimer’s disease model with selective ApoE4-to-ApoE2 switching in the brain | Tamara Vasilkovska |
Presentation Schedule – Session 2
Moderator: Elizabeth George, MBBS and Eugene Ozhinsky, PhD
| Time | Abstract # | Title | Author/Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:50 – 3:00 pm | 10 | Association of changes in thigh muscle volume with changes in structural and functional outcomes of knee osteoarthritis over 48 months - Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative | Tugce Ulas |
| 3:00 – 3:10 pm | 19 | Personalized neuromodulation of speech impairments in laryngeal dystonia | Leighton Hinkley |
| 3:10 – 3:20 pm | 15 | Post-Deployment Reliability Monitoring of Clinically Deployed LLM-Generated Radiology Indications | Masha Bondarenko |
| 3:20 – 3:30 pm | 45 | Deep Learning Improves MRSI-Based Prediction of Tumor Histopathology from Image-Guided Tissue Samples | Irvane Ngnie Kamga |
| 3:30 – 3:40 pm | 27 | Early Detection of Cancer Therapy–Induced Cardiotoxicity and Monitoring of SGLT2 Inhibitor Cardioprotection Using Multimodal MR Biomarkers | Donghyun Hong |
| 3:40 – 3:50 pm | 57 | A gene-embedded model of tau spread on the human connectome in Alzheimer's disease | Fahimeh Arab |
| 3:50 – 3:52 pm | 7 | Deterioration of peri-infarct microvascular hemodynamics following successful reperfusion in acute ischemic stroke predicts infarct growth | Yannan Yu |
| 3:52 – 3:54 pm | 13 | Evaluating Report-Derived Supervision Strategies for Robust Medical Vision-Language Models Under Temporal and Institutional Shift | Masha Bondarenko |
| 3:54 – 3:56 pm | 29 | Time-lapse HR-pQCT Reveals Rapid Cortical Bone Loss, Including Localized Periosteal Apposition and Subperiosteal Circumferential Pore Formation, in Older Men | Minhao Zhou |
| 3:56 – 3:58 pm | 41 | A deep learning framework for a 6-min integrated pre- and post-contrast whole-brain vessel wall MRI protocol | Pengcheng Wang |
| 3:58 – 4:00 pm | 16 | Histology-Specific Associations of Quantitative FES Dedicated Breast PET with Residual Cancer Burden During Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy | Pouya Metanat |
| 4:00 – 4:02 pm | 35 | Non-invasive differentiation of meningioma molecular groups using dynamic hyperpolarized carbon-13 magnetic resonance imaging | Adam Autry |
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
