Dec 2022: Sajan Lingala was recognized as an Office of Vice President's (OVPR) Early Career Scholar for the project on "Novel motion-robust learning based MRI methods to phenotype obstructive sleep apnea". The award provides 30K$ of pilot funding for 1 year, individual grantsmanship consulting, and support to visit program officers.

Nov 2022: Wahid's paper on "A flexible 16-channel custom coil array for accelerated imaging of upper and infraglottic airway at 3 Tesla" was accepted in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Congrats Wahid!

Sep 2022: Article on "High resolution 3D hybrid MRI+low dose CT vocal tract modeling: a cadaveric pilot study" was published in the Journal of Voice.  

July 2022: Collaborative proposal with Dr. David Meyer on "Physically Simulated Singing and the psychoacoustics of room and distance" receives 6.5K$ pilot funding from the Voice Foundation.

June 2022: Rushdi's work on "Accelerated pseudo 3D speech MRI at 3Tesla using unsupervised variational deep manifold learning"  was accepted in MICCAI 2022. This is exciting and will be our lab's first paper at the MICCAI meetings. Great job, Rushdi!

April 2022: Subin and Karthika recieves the best IIBI poster award in the 2022 College of Engineering's Research Open House. Congrats Subin, Karthika!

April 2022: Sajan Lingala was selected as an early career investigator in Imaging at the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. 

Feb 2022: Five abstracts were accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of ISMRM, 2022. These include a) led by Rushdi on: Deep generative models for time aligned multi-slice speech reconstruction; b) led by Wahid on: Model based deep learning for volumetric upper-airway MRI; c) led by Subin on: Small data based protocol adaptive transfer learning networks for segmentation in speech MRI; d) two collaborative abstracts with Manhattan College on human observer signal models for MRI reconstruction. 

Jan 2022: Collaborative proposal on "Understanding the nasal complex as a fundamental portal to human health" with colleagues from the College of Engineering, and the College of Medicine receives a 1 year 150K$ jumpstart award from the Office of Vice President Research, University of Iowa.

Jan 2022: Book chapter on "Effects of motion in sparsely sampling acquisitions"  (authors: Sajan Goud Lingala, Rushdi Rusho) to appear in the book entitled "Motion correction in MR: correction of motion, position, and dynamic changes", Elsevier, 2022 (edited by Jalal Andre and Andre vanderkouwe).