Work led by Liz Bird has been published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging. More information can be found here.
Amanda Craine receives NIH F31 fellowship
Amanda has received an NIH NRSA fellowship to support the rest of her PhD work focusing on using CT imaging to better evaluate RV performance.
Dr. Contijoch promoted to Associate Professor (with Tenure)!
Thanks to all of the mentors, collaborators, and most of all - trainees that have made the lab what it is today!
Sicong and Sia graduate
Sicong and Sia have graduated from their respective programs. Best of luck and stay in touch!
Nuri and Ana present at ISMRM 2023
Project Scientist Ana Rodriguez-Soto gave an invited oral presentationon improving 4D flow imaging and PhD student Nuri Chung presented a poster on her work on improving iCMR at the annual meeting of ISMRM (in Toronto)!
Nick joins the lab
Nick Lyu, an undergraduate Data Science student, has joined the lab. Welcome!
Publication in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging
Work led by Zhenning Chen has been published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging. More information can be found here.
Liz defends her thesis and graduates
Liz Bird succesfuly presented her thesis work "Development of quantitative phenotyping tools to improve PTE risk-benefit assessment in CTEPH patients" and completed her Docotral program! Congratulations!
Publication in Medical Physics
Work led by Kunal Gupta has been published in Medical Physics. More information can be found here.
Publication in ASAIO
Work led by Anderson Scott has been published in ASAIO (and selected as the "article of the month")! More information can be found here.
Publication in Nature Biomedical Engineering
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in Nature BME. More information can be found here.
Isabelle joins the lab
Isabelle Lam, a Master's student in Bioengineering, has joined the lab. Welcome!
Nuri and Ana present at SCMR 2023
PhD student Nuri Chung gave an invited oral presentation on her work on improving iCMR and Project Scientist Ana Rodriguez-Soto presented an abstract on improving 4D flow imaging at the annual meeting of SCMR (held here in San Diego)!
Publication in ASAIO
Work led by Anderson Scott has been published in ASAIO with an accompanying editorial. More information can be found here.
Sia joins the lab
Sia Xu, a Master's student in Computer Science, has joined the lab. Welcome!
2022
Publication in Frontiers Cardiovascular Medicine
Work led by Master's student Hui Li has been published. More information can be found here.
Rick advances to PhD candidacy
Rick successfully presented his senate thesis proposal and has advanced to PhD candidacy! Congratulations!
Anderson defends his thesis and graduates
Anderson succesfuly presented her thesis work "Advanced Right Ventricular Functional Analysis in End-Stage Heart Failure with CT" and completed his Docotral program! Congratulations!
Niraj joins the lab
Niraj Mahajan, a Master's student in Computer Science, has joined the lab. Welcome!
Amanda Craine advances to PhD candidacy
Congratulations Amanda on a great thesis proposal presentation! On to PhD candidacy!
Hui defends her thesis and graduates
Hui succesfuly presented her thesis work "Fully-automated, Fast Evaluation of CineCT for Detection of Wall Motion Abnormality using both Global and Regional Metrics of Function" and completed her Master's program! Congratulations!
Nuri successfully presents her first-year qualifying exam
Nuri passed her qualifying exam. Well done!
Anderson Scott receives NIH F31 fellowship
Anderson has received an NIH predoctoral fellowship which funds the remainder of his PhD work focusing on predicting RV failure after LVAD implantation using CT.
Amanda Craine receives NIH funding
Amanda has received NIH support for her PhD work focusing on using CT imaging to better evaluate RV performance.
Publication in Frontiers Cardiovascular Medicine
Work led by Dr. Zhennong Chen has been published in Frontiers Cardiovascular Medicine. More information can be found here.
Anderson, Amanda and Hui present at SCCT 2022
Graduate students Amanda Craine, Hui Li, and Anderson Scott presented their abstracts at SCCT. You can see their work here, here, and here.
Liz presents at PVRI 2022
MD/PhD student Liz Bird traveled to Athens, Greece to present her abstract at PVRI.
Amanda presents at 2022 Annual International Symposium on ACHD
PhD student Amanda Craine traveled to Cincinnati to present her abstract on how we can use CT to estimate regional myocardial work.
Dr. Contijoch receives NIH R01 grant to improve pediatric imaging.
Dr. Contijoch and his collaborators received NIH support for a 5-year project to improve pediatric imaging during cardiac catheterization. Stay tuned for more in this space!
Sofia and Damian join the lab for the summer
As part of the ENLACE program, Sofia Acuña Luévano and Damian Ko have have joined the lab. Welcome!
Zhennong presents at the 2022 CT meeting
Dr. Chen presented his work pushing cardiac CT forward in Baltimore!
Sri and Jiping join the lab
Srirangan Madhavan and Jiping Lin, Master's students in Computer Science, have joined the lab. Welcome!
Zhennong defends his thesis and graduates
Zhennong succesfuly presented her thesis work "Analysis of Left Ventricular Function using Cardiac CT and Deep Learning" and completed his Docotral program! Congratulations!
Publication in Structural Heart
Work led by Dr. Marzia Rigolli has been published in Structural Heart. More information can be found here.
Publication in Medical Physics
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in Meidcal Physics. More information can be found here.
Dr. Contijoch named as a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Dr. Contijoch was recognized for his contributions to the field and inducted as part of the March 2022 class.
Zhennong named a finalist for best student paper award at SPIE 2022
Doctoral candidate Zhennong Chen was recognized for his work using cardiac CT to detect wall motion abnormalities!
Liz Bird receives NIH F30 Fellowship
Liz has received NIH support for the remainder of her PhD work based on her grant submission "Quantitative Framework to Predict CTEPH Surgical Outcome from Imaging."
Dr. Contijoch recognized for contributions to the Journal of Cardiovascular Magentic Resonance
Dr. Contijoch was recognized for his sustained contributions to the journal.
2021
Publication in Placenta
Work led by Dr. Ana Rodriguez-Soto has been published in Placenta. More information can be found here.
Dr. Contijoch recognized for contributions to the Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging journal
Dr. Contijoch was the keynote speaker at Universidad Anahuac's Jornadas de Ingenieria Biomedica 2020 and presented a talk on novel CT and MRI techniques for cardiovascular disease assessments
Amanda Craine has been awarded a San Diego Fellowship for her studies. Congratulations!
Shradha defends her thesis and graduates
Shradha succesfuly presented her thesis work "Predicting Post-Operative Outcomes in CTEPH patients" and completed her Master's program! Congratulations!
Anderson advances to PhD candidacy
Congratulations Anderson on a great thesis proposal presentation! On to PhD candidacy!
Amanda successfully presents her first-year qualifying exam
Amanda successfully presented her qualifying exam and received high marks on both engineering and life science topics. Well done!
Liz advances to PhD candidacy
Liz successfully presented her senate thesis proposal and has advanced to PhD candidacy! Congratulations on a job well done!
Kunal graduates
Kunal graduated from his CS program. We're lucky to have him continue to work in the lab as a research associate.
Amanda, Brendon,and Zhennong present at SCCT 2020
Virtual abstracts were presented due to COVID-19 which you can find here, here, and here.
Marzia presents at ACC/World Congress of Cardiology 2020
Postdoc Marzia Rigolli has an abstract accepted for presentation at ACC/World Congress of Cardiology. While the conference was virutal due to COVID-19, you can see her work here.
Liz and Anderson have work accepted for presentation at ISHLT 2020
Graduate students Liz Bird and Anderson Scott had abstracts accepted for presentation at ISHLT. While the conference was cancelled due to COVID-19, you can see their work here and here.
Publication in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging. More information can be found here.
Dr. Contijoch presents on Fast CMR at the SCMR Annual Meeting
Dr. Contijoch presented an invited talk focused on fast CMR for interventional applications at the annual meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Orland, Florida.
Dr. Contijoch recognized for contributions to the Journal of Cardiovascular Magentic Resonance
Dr. Contijoch received the 2019 Gold Star award for the quality of his manuscript reviews.
Ana joins the lab
Ana Rodriguez-Soto has joined the lab. She received her Ph.D from UC San Diego and prior to returning to UCSD was a post-doc at Penn. Welcome!
2019
Eric receives Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Eric received the year-long scholarship to work on a data science research projects of interest. His proposal focuses on how to improve curation and preparation of medical data for machine learning.
Publication in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in Circ: Cardiovascular Imaging. More information can be found here.
Publication in Journal of Medical Imaging
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in JMI. More information can be found here.
Publication in Journal of Medical Imaging
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in JMI. More information can be found here.
Liz presents her work at the UCSD CTEPH Symposium - 2019
Graduate student Liz Bird presented an abstract focused on correlations between imaging findings and clinical outcomes at the biannual symposium hosted by UCSD.
Publication in Journal of Thoracic Disease
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in JTD. More information can be found here.
Dr. Contijoch receives Undergraduate Teaching Award
Dr. Contijoch was recognized with the Best Teacher award for the 2018-2019 academic year for his work teaching BENG 125 Modeling and Computation in Bioengineering and BENG 189 Physiological Systems Engineering.
Publication in Medical Physics
Work by Zhennong Chen, Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in Medical Physics. More information can be found here.
Amanda, a prior summer student, has joined the lab and UCSD BE PhD Program. Welcome back!
Graduate studuents Liz and Anderson awarded fellowships
Liz and Anderson have been awarded graduate fellowships through the NHLBI-funded training program for their studies.
Brendan awarded Young Investigator Prize at SCCT
Post-doc Brendan Colvert won the prize for his work titled "Local Field-of-View Tomography Enables Dose Reduction in Cardiac CT"
Presentation at SCCT Annual Meeting
Anderson Scott presented "Computed Tomography-derived Measurement of Stroke Work Index for Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices" at the Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Summer Research Students Join the Lab
Sinan Kamil, Maria Fernanda Celaya, and Jason Shang have joined the lab through the UCSD STARS, ENLACE, and BE-SHIP programs, respectively.
Nitesh and Adhithi graduate
Nitesh and Adhithi have graduated from their respective programs. Best of luck and stay in touch!
Publication in JCCT
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. More information can be found here.
Presentation at ISHLT Annual Meeting
Anderson Scott presented "Cardiac CT Provides Complementary Parameters of Right Ventricle Function in LVAD Patients" at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. More details can be found here.
Marzia joins the lab
Marzia Rigolli has joined the lab. She received her D.Phil in Cardiovascular Imaging from Oxford University. Welcome!
Liz joins the lab
Liz Bird, an MD-PhD student in the Bioengineering department has joined the lab. Welcome!
Presentation at SCMR Annual Meeting
Dr. Contijoch presented "Flow vorticity may impair flow quantification in patients with aortic aneurysm" at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Bellevuee, WA. More details can be found here.
Dr. Contijoch recognized for contributions to the Journal of Cardiovascular Magentic Resonance
Dr. Contijoch received the 2018 Gold Star award for the quality of his manuscript reviews.
Eric joins the lab
Eric Yu, an undergraduate student studying data science, has joined the lab. Welcome!
2018
Brendan joins the lab
Brendan Colvert has joined the lab. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California. Welcome!
Amanda and Diana present their summer projects
Undergraduate students Amanda Craine and Diana Hernandez Hernandez each presented their sumemr projects at UC San Diego's Summer Research Confernece. Congratulations on the excellent talks and thank you for all your hard work!
Dr. Contijoch Receives NIH Research Grant
Dr. Contijoch has received a Career Development Award grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the NIH to pursue imaging of the right ventricle in patients with heart failure.
Summer Research Students Join the Lab
Amanda Craine, Diana Hernandez Hernandez, and Priscila Guerrero have joined the lab through the UCSD STARS, SRP and ENLACE programs, respectively.
Graduate Students Join the Lab
Nitesh Sekhar (a CSE Master's student) and Anderson Scott (a BE PhD Student) have joined the lab.
Publication in JCCT
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. More information can be found here.
Presentation at ISHLT Annual Meeting
Dr. Contijoch presented "Pre-PTE Pulmonary Artery Elastance, Right Ventricular Elastance, and RV-PA Coupling Predict Post-Operative Length of Stay and Hemodynamics" at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Annual Meeting in Nice, France. More details can be found here.
Publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Work by Dr. Contijoch and collaborators has been published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. More information can be found here.
2017
Presentation at RSNA Annual Meeting
Dr. Contijoch presented "Precise Regional RV Function Measurement in the Adult Congenital Heart with Low Radiation Dose CT and SQUEEZ Processing" at the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA
Publication and accompanying editorial in International Journal of Cardiology
Work by the group has been published in International Journal of Cardiology with an accompanying editorial.. More information can be found here.
Presentation at ISMRM Workshop
Dr. Contijoch presented "Real-Time MRI of the Heart Using Smart & Autonomous Radial Sampling" at the ISMRM Workshop on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cardiac Function NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City, NY, USA
Publication in Medical Physics
The group has published a manuscript in Medical Physics. More information can be found here.
The Contijoch Research Lab has launched!
The Laboratory is hosted in the Departments of Bioengineering and Radiology at UC San Diego and is located in the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute building.
