What We Do
We are an artificial intelligence lab that focuses on developing mathematical and deep learning methods in medical imaging and medical image analysis for improved disease diagnosis and prognosis, treatment planning, and image-guided surgery.
Join the Team
There is a researcher and volunteer position available at the UF MIRTH AI Lab.
Member Achievements
Many of the members in our lab have had the opportunity to publish their work in prestigious journals and collaborate with experts in the field. Some even receive awards to continue their work.
RECENT NEWS
June 12, 2025
Student Receives Meritorious Winner Award at CVPR 2025
We’re proud to announce that a student researcher in the MIRTHAI Lab, has been awarded the Meritorious Winner Award at the 2025 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
April 25, 2025
Student Publication in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
A student researcher in the MIRTHAI Lab, has published his latest work, “Fast-DDPM: Fast Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Medical Image-to-Image Generation,” in the prestigious IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI).
April 1, 2025
MIRTHAI Lab Secures $150,000 in Seed Funding for Aortic Disease Research
The University of Florida’s MIRTHAI Lab is proud to announce that Dr. Wei Shao has been awarded $150,000 in seed funding from the UF Health Aortic Disease Center for his research proposal…
February 3, 2025
PI Achieves IEEE Senior Member Status
MIRTHAI is proud to announce that Dr. Wei Shao, Assistant Professor and researcher in the Quantitative Health and AI Initiative, has been elevated to the prestigious rank of Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
October 29, 2024
UF’s 2024 Postdoctoral Awards
This year the University of Florida’s(UF)Postdoctoral Awards Ceremony chose to honor excellence and an “extra mile” ethic among postdoctoral scholars and researchers who make UF shine through groundbreaking discovery and impactful innovation.
September 18, 2024
Paper Accepted to Computers in Biology and Medicine
Members of the MIRTHAI Lab celebrate today for their successful publication to the Journal of Computers in Biology and Medicine. Their paper titled, A Flexible 2.5D Medical Image Segmentation Approach with In-Slice and Cross-Slice Attention is scheduled to be published to the prestigious journal in the coming months.
July 24, 2024
Paper Accepted to Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Dr. Muhammad Imran, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Medicine, secures another first author publication to the esteemed Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. This journal’s impact factor of 4.9 and its top 15% distinction in Health Informatics underscore the hard work and dedication the collaborators have put into this project.
July 8, 2024
MIRTH AI Lab Receives Funding from NVIDIA and UF Research Computing
The MIRTH AI Lab is thrilled to announce a significant enhancement in their research capabilities, thanks to a funding award from NVIDIA and the University of Florida’s Research Computing Team.
June 5, 2024
Paper Accepted to the Prestigious, Journal of Vascular Surgery
Major Congratulations to Dr. Muhammad Imran, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Medicine and Dr. Jonathan R. Krebs, General Surgery Resident in the Department of Vascular Surgery at the University of Florida.
April 8, 2024
UF’s MIRTH AI Lab Receives 2024 Founders’ Award
The University of Florida’s MIRTH AI Lab recently received $5,000 for their paper submission entitled, “Volumetric Analysis of Uncompiled Type B Aortic Dissection Using an Automated Deep Learning Aortic Zone Segmentation Model.”
September 12, 2023
UF’s MIRTH AI Lab Receives $25,000 Grant to Revolutionize Neonatal Brain MRI Analysis
The MIRTH AI Lab at the University of Florida Intelligent Critical Care Center was recently awarded a CMN Pilot Project Innovation Award to transform the current method for analyzing magnetic resonance images in pre-term neonates at UF Health through the development of an artificial intelligence tool to auto-segment term-corrected MRIs.
August 14, 2023
UF Health Research Team Aims to Create AI Algorithm to Improve Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
The UF MIRTH AI lab recently disseminated their preliminary findings through Cornell University’s arXiv open-access preprint server.
January 30, 2023
AI2Heal Datathon $20k grant winners
Five teams, including Gowthami Wudaru and Chintan Acharya of the UF MIRTH AI Lab, were selected to receive the AI2Heal Datathon catalyst grants.