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Dr. Uddin receives NIH DP1 Award to Study Liver Disease and Brain Health in People Living with HIV

July 8, 2024

Dr. Uddin has been awarded a DP1 grant from NIH to study the impact of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease on brain function in people living with HIV.
Details can be found here.

Dr. Uddin received NIH funding to develop an automated approach for brain artery segmentation and vascular feature extraction on MR Angiography

September 7, 2023

Dr. Uddin has been awarded an NIH grant entitled “Automated Machine Learning-Based Brain Artery Segmentation, Anatomical Prior Labeling, and Feature Extraction on MR Angiography”. Cerebrovascular disease is one of the major causes of death and long-term disability, affecting 15 million people globally. The goal of this proposal is to develop and validate an automated approach to segment and classify brain arteries and extract vascular features with high fidelity from low-resolution clinical MRA images utilizing a prospective machine learning framework and a super-resolution technique with a small training set for clinical convenience. The study will explore the associations between vascular features, cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) markers, and cognitive performance in an existing HIV-CSVD dataset. The main hypothesis is that this automated approach will provide more accurate and time-efficient measures, advancing brain vessel segmentation and feature extraction. The results could facilitate the translation of vessel-related biomarkers into clinical practice, benefiting diagnostic studies and enhancing patient outcomes.