News & Posts

December 2024

• An undergraduate team led by Dr. Avaz competed in the final stage of a MITTIC competition at the Johnson Space Center.
  • An undergraduate team named MUSCLE, led by Dr. Avaz, competed in the final stage of a MITTIC competition at the Johnson Space Center. The team proposed an AI-driven platform to reduce muscle atrophy in astronauts.

November 2024

• C2BL is presenting at AHA Scientific Sessions 2024.

Excited to be at #AHA24 and catch up with friends and mentors! Please check out our short presentation tomorrow on the role of LV anisotropy in the outcome of MI. https://t.co/dQeKAHKx1X@bmentamu @Texas_Heart pic.twitter.com/fU7wkqGRZn

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) November 16, 2024

October 2024

• C2BL is presenting at BMES 2024.

Excited to attend awesome presentations at #BMES2024. Please come and check out the work from our lab if you can. @BMESociety @bmentamu pic.twitter.com/pBiqzleMyE

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) October 23, 2024

• Reza Avaz is giving a talk at the Advances in Right Heart Biology Symposium at the Brown University Medical School.

I was honored to present our collaborative work with @GChoudharyMD at the Advances in Right Heart Biology Symposium! We discussed using RV biomechanical remodeling to define the border between RV adaptation and maladaptation and the interaction between RV and PA remodeling. Thank… https://t.co/7BSBhTLyzS pic.twitter.com/8reLkJgnrN

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) October 20, 2024

September 2024

• C2BL is presenting at CVRI-TAMU 2024.

• • Congratulations to Tanmay Mukherjee for winning a presentation award for his poster on the biomechanics of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.

 

July 2024

• C2BL is presenting at BCVS 2024.

I was grateful to present two of a few cardiac biomechanics posters at #BCVS2024 on behalf of my group. Enjoyed excellent posters on molecular mechanisms and tried to “chime in” and address why we need to study biomechanical mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction too. We studied 1)… pic.twitter.com/jIYpDOofXu

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) July 28, 2024

June 2024

• Congrats to Raza Mehdi for winning a student paper competition award at SB3C 2024

Congratulations to Raza Mehdi for winning a student paper competition award at #SB3C2024. Raza and Nikhil Kadivar, from Dr. Karniadakis’s group, demonstrated the possibility of combining limited human data with extensive in-silico data to produce a highly predictive AI model for… pic.twitter.com/hxh4W9INf1

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) June 22, 2024

• C2BL presented at SB3C 2024. Congrats to Babak, Raza, and Tanmay  for being a finalist in MS and PhD student paper competitions!

Congrats to Tanmay, Raza, and Babak from @bmentamu on being finalists in PhD/MS student paper competitions at #SB3C2024. I wish them the best of luck, and many thanks to the SB3C community for their support! pic.twitter.com/bsky2EoQgo

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) June 13, 2024

May 2024

• Rahul Ghosh defended his PhD dissertation. Congrats, Rahul!

Very proud of @ghoshrx, my first PhD student, who defended his dissertation last week. Co-chaired by Dr. Stephen Wong, @ghoshrx developed an AI system to track a catheter tip within cerebral arteries on X-ray fluoroscopy, advancing future vascular robotics systems. @MethodistHosp… pic.twitter.com/gvDqeeyZiB

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) May 25, 2024

• C2BL presented at the 8th Annual Cardiovascular Bioengineering Symposium at Houston Methodist. Congrats to Raza and Babak for winning best abstract awards and a cash prize!

February 2024

• C2BL is presenting at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024. Tanmay gave a talk on calculating 4D torsion in the LV using CMR and presented a poster on creating in-silico CT images of the lung.

Cardiac strains, presented in (Radial, Circumferential, and Longitudinal) axes, are used as regional and global contractility measures. While these “normal” strains represent the thickening/shortening of the wall, they do not contain information on shearing. “Shearing” drives LV… pic.twitter.com/pjFWFhTcn5

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) May 4, 2024

 

The quantification of lung regional motion promises to improve the diagnosis of lung injuries. This quantification, however, remains challenging for CT images with low temporal resolution. An in-silico lung phantom replicating realistic lung geometry, microstructure, and motion… pic.twitter.com/bXzfDRwdet

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) July 9, 2024

 

December 2023

• Raza Mehdi is giving a talk at Machine Learning + X Seminars at Brown University. Title: DeepInfarct: In-silico trained UNET-based identification of infarcted myocardium from strain imaging.

 

• Congratulations to Tanmay Mukherjee for winning a Travel Award to present one talk and one poster at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024.

November 2023

• C2BL is presenting at AHA Scientific Sessions 2023.

Remodeling studies in pulmonary hypertension have focused on either the RV or PA side, leaving the understanding of the RV-PA remodeling relationship elusive. We’re studying the effects of PA stiffening on RV afterload and on RV remodeling. https://t.co/fd6VEdtgeK @GChoudharyMD pic.twitter.com/Obo1UpuZdV

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) January 14, 2024

October 2023

• C2BL is presenting at BMES 2023.

C2BL is excited to present at #BMES2023. Please attend our talks/visit our posters. Our latest works include deconvoluting resistive vs. pulsatile components of RV afterload in PH, Al-empowered estimation of arterial pressure, and super-resolution MRI to detect cardiotoxicity. pic.twitter.com/fLXJfaSFdY

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) October 11, 2023

 

Proud of Tanmay Mukherjee for presenting our collaborative study with @PrasannaAlluri‘s lab at #BMES2023 on the early detection of radiation-induced cardiotoxicity in mice using 4D cardiac strains estimated via super-resolution reconstruction of cardiac magnetic resonance images. pic.twitter.com/yNHnuY2z7m

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) October 13, 2023

August 2023

• C2BL is presenting at BCVS 2023.

The right ventricle stiffens in pulmonary hypertension yet needs to maintain its contractility to remain coupled with the pulmonary artery. We are studying passive and active RV myocardium remodeling to learn about these competing events. @GChoudharyMD https://t.co/aZCc5ChTiI pic.twitter.com/GNV6yMmauQ

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) October 29, 2023

Left ventricular impaired relaxation is a common result of LV diastolic dysfunction. The role of LV passive remodeling in slowing LV relaxation (which is an active behavior) remains elusive. Our early results suggest that LV passive stiffening not only passively restricts LV… pic.twitter.com/k2g24DClqo

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) April 21, 2024

Enjoyed excellent poster sessions at #BCVS23 and was glad to present “combo” posters on the right and left heart in one session!

Interestingly, not many RV works were presented at BCVS, but hopefully, more will start to come. pic.twitter.com/F6OGUVM58z

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) August 5, 2023

• C2BL is presenting at CVRI Symposium at TAMU 2023. Congratulations to Tanmay Mukherjee for winning a presentation award for his talk on biomechanics of radiation-induced cardiotoxicity.

June 2023

• C2BL is presenting at SB3C 2023 Conference

Enjoyed the amazing works presented @SB3Corg. Proud of @AvazLab for presenting the effects of pulmonary arterial remodeling on the elevation of RV afterload in PH and calculating full 4D cardiac strains using super-resolution techniques. pic.twitter.com/l5Nnm1Slkj

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) June 11, 2023

• C2BL is presenting at FIMH 2023.

Structurally-based phenomenological models have been an integral part of cardiac biomechanics. However, their predictive capacity is as good as the statistical measures of ECM/cell shape and architecture used in them. @bmentamu @Texas_Heart @BCVSearlyCareer @SpringerCompSci pic.twitter.com/uoEB1pEAHk

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) August 12, 2023

We examined the possibility of predicting myo-architecture from cardiac strains, relying on the notion that regional motion anisotropy is driven by fiber orientation. Our in-silico finite-element experiment corroborated this possibility.
Link: https://t.co/p3fBDOUoOK pic.twitter.com/MTxJSezHfz

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) July 31, 2023

Fantastic presentations at the first in-person FIMH meeting post covid (https://t.co/iMjGH4vaqt). They exemplified the synergy between cardiac imaging and modeling to improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. Proud to present some of our recent works at the meeting. pic.twitter.com/F5ZkhaQeUv

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) June 24, 2023

 

• Congratulations to Rahul Ghosh for winning the Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year.

 

April 2023

• Reza Avaz is giving a talk at Machine Learning + X Seminars at Brown University. Title: Applications of machine learning in improving the assessment of myocardial remodeling in cardiac diseases. Recording Link

It was an honor to present at Machine Learning + X Seminars @BrownUniversity . Thank you, Dr. Karniadakis, for the invitation. Title: Applications of machine learning in improving the assessment of myocardial remodeling in cardiac diseases. Recording Link: https://t.co/sx5nxUh1Sz

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) May 1, 2023

February 2023

• Reza Avaz is giving a talk at the 2023 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging at Penn Radiology on the topic of multiscale modeling of the lung to quantify regional mechanical stress in vivo.

I was honored to present our work at the 2023 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging on quantifying #lung_motion from 4D CT and exploring #in_silico_lung_modeling. Thank you, Dr. Rizi and @PennRadiology, for the invitation! pic.twitter.com/tDgLH02QR4

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) February 28, 2023

• C2BL is presenting at SPIE Medical Imaging 2023.

With Dr. Rizi at @PennRadiology & Dr. Smith at @CUAnschutz, we used NR image reg in a rat 4DCT. We found an inverse correlation between volumetric strains and distortion, indicating that poorly expanding alveoli tend to experience larger distortion. https://t.co/uSVYhxW1dD pic.twitter.com/4sKlxDljuq

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) April 16, 2023

January 2023

• Reza Avaz is visiting CPVB COBRE at Brown and talking about the role of right ventricular biomechanics in cardiac adaptation in pulmonary hypertension

It was an honor to be @CPVB_COBRE and talk about the key role of #RVbiomechanics in RV adaptation in pulmonary hypertension. It was a great pleasure to meet with the faculty @BrownUniversity. Thank you for having me! https://t.co/gckupWjGTQ

— Reza Avaz (@AvazLab) January 21, 2023

October 2022

• C2BL is presenting at BMES 2022.

 

• C2BL is presenting at SES 2022.

 

July 2022

• C2BL is presenting at BCVS 2022.

 

• Reza Avaz is presenting at Youth in in Biomedical Engineering Program.

 

May 2022

• C2BL is presenting  at ATS 2022.

 

April 2022

• C2BL is presenting  at Experimental Biology 2022.

 

October 2021

• Reza Avaz is giving an invited talk on integrated 4D imaging-modeling in cardiac disease at NJIT/BME.

 

• C2BL is presenting  at BMES 2021.

 

September 2021

• Reza Avaz is giving an invited talk on machine learning at the 3rd Computing in Engineering Forum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering & Grainger Institute for Engineering.

 

July 2021

• Emilio is presenting our work on cardiac remodeling in MI at 16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics.

 

June 2021

• Maziyar is presenting his work on CMR in mice at the 11th biennial International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart.

 

• C2BL is presenting  at SB3C 2021.

 

January 2020

• C2BL started