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  • July 2024: Dr.Elbaz, PI, awarded a new 5-year 3.2M NIH R01 grant:
  • January 2024: Three abstracts accepted at the upcoming ISMRM conference in Singapore:
    • Mohamed Elbayumi, Ulas Bagci, Maurice Pradella, Philip Greenland, Mohammed S. M. Elbaz. “Healthy-to-Patients Domain-Adaptive Deep Learning for Time-Resolved Segmentation of Left Atrium in Short-Axis Cine MRI Images”. In Proceedings: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)  Annual Meeting. 04-09 May 2024, Singapore. (accepted)
    • Mehri Mehrnia, Eugene Kholmovski3, Daniel Kim, Aggelos Katsaggelos, Rod Passman,and Mohammed Elbaz. “Novel Robust Threshold-Free Probabilistic 3D LGE Fibrosis Signature Technique for Left Atrial Fibrosis Quantification”.In Proceedings: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)  Annual Meeting. 04-09 May 2024, Singapore. (accepted)
    • Melika Shafeghat, Benjamin Freed, James Carr, Mohammed Elbaz. “Differentiating Pulmonary Hypertension Groups by 3D Vortex Flow-contained energetics from 4D Flow MRI and Correlation with Right Heart Function”. In Proceedings: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)  Annual Meeting. 04-09 May 2024, Singapore. (accepted)
  • September 2023: Four Abstracts are accepted at the SCMR 2024 conference in London, UK:
    • Mohammed S.M. Elbaz, Mehri Mehrnia, Sandra Quinn, Andrew Zbihley, James Carr, Bradley Allen. “Novel Quantitative LGE Amyloid Burden Signature Index (ABSI)”. In Proceedings, Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), January 25-27, 2024, London, UK
    • Mohammed S.M. Elbaz, Roberto Sarnari, Benjamin Freed, James Carr. “Novel LGE Scar Burden Signature Index (SBSI) for Quantifying Septal and RV Insertions LGE in Pulmonary Hypertension”.  In Proceedings, Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), January 25-27, 2024, London, UK 
    • Mohamed Elbayumi, Benjamin Freed, Christopher Francois, Kara Goss, James Carr, Mohammed Elbaz. “Novel 4D CMR Right-heart Virtual Catheter (4D RH Vcath) for Pulmonary-atrio-ventricular Hemodynamic Evaluation in Pulmonary Hypertension”. In Proceedings, Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), January 25-27, 2024, London, UK 
    • Melika Shafeghat, Mohamed Elbayumi, James Carr, Mohammed Elbaz. “Relative Vortex Strength and Energetics Associated with Pulmonary Artery Pressure and Cardiac Function in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”. In Proceedings, Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), January 25-27, 2024, London, UK
  • May 2023: Our #ISMRM23 abstract received the Summa Cum Laude Award (Top 5% of abstracts)– the highest ISMRM abstract Merit Award — from the ISMRM conference to be held in Toronto in June 2023:
  • May 2023:  Dr. Mohammed Elbaz, Ph.D., the PIC-CVI-lab PI – has been named a Fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR)! This prestigious honor recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
  • December 2022: Two SCMR Travel Awards : Congratulations to PIC-CVI PhD students, Mehri Mehrnia and Thara Nallamothu, for each receiving competitive SCMR Travel Award for each of their accepted abstracts to present their work at the SCMR conference, in San Diego in January, 2023.
  • November, 2022: Four Accepted abstracts at SCMR 2023 spanning computational MRI of Cardiac Flow, Structure and Mechanics:  Our lab has four abstract accepted at the upcoming SCMR 2023 conference in San Diego. Our abstracts span novel computational cardiovascular imaging for 4D Flow MRI Cardiac Blood flow Dynamics, 3D LGE MRI fibrosis quantification, Cardiac Strain Mechanics in different cardiac diseases/intervention including atrial fibrillation, mitral regurgitation and pre and post left atrial ablation:
    1. Mehri Mehrnia, Eugene Kholmovski, Daniel Kim, Rod Passman, Mohammed S. M. Elbaz. “Novel Threshold-free Fibrosis Signature Index (FSI) for quantification of left atrial fibrosis and scar burden from 3D LGE”. In Proceedings: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 26th annual meeting, January 25-28, 2023 (Accepted)
    2. Thara Nallamothu, Aakash Gupta, Philip Greenland, Mohammed S. M. Elbaz. “Novel 4D Flow Hemodynamic Signature Index (HSI) of mitral regurgitation burden associates with cardiac dysfunction independent of regurgitation severity grading”. In Proceedings: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 26th annual meeting, January 25-28, 2023 (Accepted)
    3. Siva Sreedhar, Aakash Gupta, Teodora Chitiboi, Maurice Pradella, Mohammed S.M. Elbaz. “Left Atrial Circumferential Strain Associates with Mitral Regurgitation (MR) Severity and Cardiac Function in Primary and Secondary MR Patients”. In Proceedings: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 26th annual meeting, January 25-28, 2023 (Accepted)
    4. Thara Nallamothu, Daniel C. Lee, Philip Greenland, Rod Passman, Mohammed S.M. Elbaz. “Post-ablation 4D flow restoration in atrial fibrillation patients with high CHA2DS2-VASc score quantified by novel 4D Hemodynamic Signature Index (HSI): A follow-up study”. In Proceedings: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 26th annual meeting, January 25-28, 2023 (Accepted)
  • July 2022: New patent Issued: Elbaz, Mohammed SM, et al. “Co-Expression Signatures Method for Quantification of Physiological and Structural Data.” U.S. Patent Application No. 17/004,779.
  • May 2022: American Heart Association (AHA) Student Scholarship Award. Congratulations to MD student in the lab, Siva Sreedhar, for being awarded a prestigious AHA Student Scholarships in Cardiovascular Disease Award. Siva’s project is on development and validation of new methods for reproducible 3D segmental cardiac strain mechanics from cardiac MRI.
  • April 2022: ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Award for our lab work. Congratulations to PhD Student, Mehri Mehrnia, and the team!
  • March 2022: Two ISMRM  Travel Awards: Congratulations to PIC-CVI lab PhD students, Mehri Mehrnia and  Thara Nallamothu for each being awarded Stipend (Travel) Award from the 2022 ISMRM conference for their recently accepted abstracts below.
  • February 2022: Two Abstracts Accepted for presentation at the upcoming International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 31st Annual Meeting 7-12 May, 2022.
    • Mehrnia M, Kholmovski E, Passman R, Katsaggelos A, Nazarian S, Kim D and Elbaz MS. Stochastic Fibrosis Signatures from 3D LGE: Novel Threshold-Free quantification of left atrial fibrosis. In Proceedings: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 31st Annual Meeting. 7-12 May, 2022. (accepted)
    • Thara Nallamothu, Haben Berhane, Liliana Ma, Justin Baraboo, Daniel C. Lee, Daniel Kim, Philip Greenland, Michael Markl, Rod Passman, Mohammed S.M. Elbaz,  Novel Self-calibrating 4D Flow-Field Disparity Signature Technique to Optimize Eddy Current Corrections and Detect Wraparound Errors. In Proceedings: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 31st Annual Meeting. 7-12 May, 2022. (accepted)
  • February 2022 (Early Career Award): Congratulations to PhD student, Thara Nallamothu, selected as Early career Award Finalist and received a Travel Award by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 25th annual meeting for the abstract:  Nallamothu T, Pradella M, Lee D, Kim D, Markl M, Greenland P, Passman R and Elbaz MS. Novel atrial 4D Flow Hemodynamic Signature Index (HSI) associates inversely with stroke volume and directly with LA size independent of age, gender and CHA₂DS₂-VASc score in atrial fibrillation patients. In Proceedings: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 25th annual meeting, February 2-5, 2022 (Oral; Travel Award; Early Career Award Finalist).
  • December 2021: Two abstracts accepted as Oral presentations at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance:
    • Nallamothu T, Pradella M, Lee D, Kim D, Markl M, Greenland P, Passman R and Elbaz MS. Novel atrial 4D Flow Hemodynamic Signature Index (HSI) associates inversely with stroke volume and directly with LA size independent of age, gender and CHA₂DS₂-VASc score in atrial fibrillation patients. In Proceedings: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 25th annual meeting, February 2-5, 2022 (Oral; Early Career Award Finalist).
    • Mohammed S.M. Elbaz, Aakash Gupta, Tugce Trabzonlu, Haben Berhane, Robert O. Bonow, James Carr, Chris Malaisrie, Patrick McCarthy, Michael Markl Intra-aortic segmental flow energetics and vorticity associate with aortopathy severity in bicuspid aortic valve patients: Novel 4D CMR virtual Catheter evaluation in 440 patients. In Proceedings: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 25th annual meeting, February 2-5, 2022 (Oral presentation)
  • May 2021: ISMRM abstract receives Magna Cum Laude Merit Award – given to the top 15% of submitted abstracts: Thara Nallamothu, Amanda L. DiCarlo, Daniel C. Lee, Daniel Kim, Rishi Arora, Michael Markl, Philip Greenland, Rod Passman, Mohammed S.M. Elbaz. Novel Stochastic 4D Flow Signatures of time-resolved 3D left atrial flow-field alterations in atrial fibrillation. The annual conference of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 15-20 May 2021. First Author Thara Nallamothu is a first-year BME PhD student in the lab.
  • April 2021: Hiring: Funded funded post-doc position is available in the lab  to work on NIH-Funded project in the area of Computational 4D Flow MRI Image Analysis. See the ad and details to apply here:  Postdoc_Northwestern_Elbaz_PIC_CVI_Lab
  • March 2021: Travel Award: Ph.D. student, Thara Nallamothu, receives a stipend Travel Award from the ISMRM conference for her first-authored abstract below. Congratulations, Thara!
  • February 2021: ISMRM abstract accepted as Oral presentation:  Thara Nallamothu, Amanda L. DiCarlo1, Daniel C. Lee, Daniel Kim1, Rishi Arora, Michael Markl, Philip Greenland, Rod Passman, Mohammed S.M. Elbaz. Novel Stochastic 4D Flow Signatures of time-resolved 3D left atrial flow-field alterations in atrial fibrillation. The annual conference of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 15-20 May 2021.
  • February 2021: Dr. Elbaz’s new NIH/NHLBI R21 grant submission was scored favorably and ranked at the 14th percentile (a postdoc opening would be available on this project)
  • November 2020: Dr. Elbaz is awarded the 3-year American Heart Association (AHA) Transformational Project Award for the research proposal “4D Hemodynamic Signatures of Atrial Fibrillation, Ablation Efficacy and Risk of Stroke” with a top 1%tile rank.
  • September 2020: Thara Nallamothu, B.A. joins the PIC-CVI lab as a Ph.D. student from Northwestern Biomedical Engineering
  • August 2020: Nguyen Tri Nguyen, Ph.D. joins the PIC-CVI-Lab as a postdoctoral fellow
  • July 2020: Dr. Elbaz’s grant proposal to the American Heart Association (AHA) Transformational Project Award receives an exceptional score of 0.22%tile i.e. ranking in the top 1% of 483 submitted grants.
  • February 2020: Dr. Elbaz is awarded a 2-year NIH/NHLBI grant for the project “4D Virtual Catheter (vCath) Assessment of Hemodynamic Pathways in Aortopathy Pathogenesis” – the project was ranked in the top 11%tile and awarded from the first submission
  • February 2020: PIC-CVI Lab Trainee, Aakash Gupta, BSc who is a 4th year MD student receives a competitive Travel Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 23rd Scientific Meeting, Orlando, Florida, February 12-15, 2020 for the abstract: Aakash Gupta, …, Mohammed S.M. Elbaz “Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation Quantification by 4D Flow CMR Jet Tracking versus Conventional 2D CMR in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”
  • December 2019: Dr. Elbaz receives a 2-year Northwestern Sylvia Wolff Research Award for Arrhythmia Research for the research project “Left Atrial 4D Hemodynamic Signatures of Atrial Fibrillation”
  • May 2019: Dr. Elbaz research abstract receives 3 Awards from the 27th Conference of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 11-16 May, Montreal, Canada including Summa Cum Laude Merit Award, Research Presentation Award from the ISMRM Cardiac MR Study Group and Educational Stipend Award for the abstract ” Stochastic Flow Co-expression Signatures: A novel concept for volumetric 4D flow assessment with application to aortic valve disease”
  • February 2019: Dr. Elbaz is selected Early Career Award Finalist, by the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) 22nd Scientific meeting, February 6 – 9, 2019, Bellevue, USA (2019) for the abstract titled “4D Flow vCath: A novel virtual catheter technique for assessing hemodynamics in aortic valve disease”.
  • February 2019:Dr. Elbaz’s first-author abstract selected as Best moderated e-posters in the SCMR 22nd Scientific meeting, Bellevue, USA. The abstract titled “Impact of pulmonary hypertension on viscous energy loss, kinetic energy and vorticity in the right heart: A pilot 4D Flow CMR study”