Research
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Research Interests
AI in medicine and other fields, particularly ML and CV techniques applied on big data and images.
- Anatomical modeling and automated image segmentation using active shape models and deep learning
- Disease diagnosis using deep learning and other ML methods
- Surgical robotics
- Transfer learning and fine tuning of foundation models
- Bioinformatics, EHR integration and real time predictive analytics
- Medical device research and development
Current Research
- Predicting autism from lung CT scans using deep learning
- Predicting atrial fibrillation from echocardiograms, also using deep learning
- Large-scale querying of EHR records for medical images and other data
- AI-based simulated data generation
Publications/Conference Proceedings/Patents
Comparison of manual and automated measurements of tracheobronchial airway geometry in three Balb/c mice
Authors: Asef Islam, Michael J Oldham, Anthony S Wexler
Publication date: 2017/11
Journal: The Anatomical Record
Design Of An Extendable Tuohy Needle For Use In Epidural Anesthesia For Adult Patients Of All Body-mass-indices
Authors: Gabriel Fernandes, Amanda Li, Eshan Joshi, Diego Arevalo, Chenyi Zhu, Asef Islam, Ernesto Lozano, Matthew Zhao, Youseph Yazdi, Andrew Malinow
Publication date: 2020/10/3
Publisher: American Society of Anesthesiologists
Quantifying Similarity in Histopathology Images Using Pathology-specific Deep-learned Features
Authors: Qian Cao, Asef Islam, Zihang Fang, Jaylen Kang, Alexander Baras, Wojciech Zbijewski
Publication date: 2020/3/2
Publisher: American Physical Society