Payton receives an Independent Creative Research fellowship (ICRU) from the Office of Undergraduate Research, Univ of Iowa. Congrats Payton!

April 2026: Shahin Ali wins best poster award at Research open house, COE. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Subin Erattakulangara for a successful PhD defense! His thesis focused on open source accessible deep learning tools for upper-airway segmentation. He will be heading to NY to start a Research Scientist role in Dr. Ricardo Otazo and Dr. Victor Murray's labs at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. We wish him the best in this role.

Our work on zero-echo time MRI and vocal tract segmentation has been featured as the "cover art" for the 54th annual symposium of The Voice Foundation! The imagery showcases the registration of bony structures (skull, teeth) captured by zero-echo time MRI, along with the vocal tract segmented from a short, 10-second accelerated volume MRI scan during sustained phonation. Our long-term goal is to use such non-invasive imaging and modeling tools to better guide oropharyngeal surgical procedures involving the vocal apparatus (eg. cleft palate repair) We will be presenting this as an oral presentation at the symposium. This project is spearheaded by BME graduate student Swati Ramtilak and is in collaboration with Prof. David Meyer (Music, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Univ of Iowa), Prof. James Holmes (Radiology, Univ of Iowa), Prof. Aiming Lu (Radiology, Mayo Clinic).

Our article titled "Open-Source Manually Annotated Vocal Tract Database for Automatic Segmentation from 3D MRI Using Deep Learning: Benchmarking 2D and 3D Convolutional and Transformer Networks" has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Voice.

Congrats to Shahin, Wahid, Subin, and Silpa for their accepted abstracts at the ISMRM annual meeting in Honolulu, 2025

Congrats to Swati and Subin for their accepted abstracts as oral presentations at the 54th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Voice Foundation, June 2025. See below: