ASNR/ASFNR AI Workshop

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Background

The ASNR and ASFNR societies partner to offer an education program focused on the topic of “AI for Neuroradiology,” and seeks to train its attendees and make them effective leaders and collaborators in AI projects. The program’s target audience include clinical neuroradiologists and radiology trainees, as well as computational researchers, data scientists, and PhD faculty engaged in neuroimaging research.

​The goals of this education program are to:

  1. Serve as a hands-on introductory workshop to AI in neuroimaging
  2. Allow attendees to understand and critically evaluate literature in AI for Neuroimaging
  3. Allow attendees to set up and conduct a basic research neuroimaging project, between the annual ASNR and ASFNR meetings.

The education program will accept up to 25 applicants, who will graduate at the end of the ASFNR workshop and be invited to join the ASNR/ASFNR AI study group for continued collaboration and networking. This education program will consist of prerequisite work, two companion workshops and a project to be conducted in between them. A list of different datasets and tools will be made available to the participants. Participants are free to use these datasets or to select other datasets that are publicly available or that they have access to.

Important Dates

  • Friday, March 21 (11:59 PM ET): Application deadline
  • Friday, April 4: Notification of selection
  • Saturday-Sunday, May 17-18 (all day): 1st workshop @ ASNR 2025 (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
  • Thursday, September 18 (all day): 2nd workshop @ ASFNR 2025 (Austin, TX, USA)

Prizes/Awards

ASNR will offer three (3) $2000 Travel Awards, which will be offered to trainee participants (i.e., student, resident, fellow, or post-doc) who will attend both meetings in person and also have the best promise to present their research at one of the future ASNR/ASFNR annual meetings. One of these travel awards will be dedicated to an applicant from an underrepresented region. In addition to attending both companion workshops, travel award winners must register for and attend ASNR25 in person to receive this award.​

One (1) Merit Award of $5,000 will be offered to the participant that is deemed by the organization to have presented most progress in their project between the two companion workshops. This award will be presented following the conclusion of the second workshop at ASFNR (Sep 18, 2025).

Selection Process

Applicants will be selected based on a competitive application process that will involve submission of a CV, letter of motivation, and specific research project topic to make progress on between the 2 companion workshops, as well as the completion of a questionnaire and some prerequisite work. Note that applicants committed to participate in person will be given a preference. The selection process will ensure that a diverse class is created each year, in terms of training levels (residents, fellows, post-docs, junior faculty, more advanced faculty), institution and geographical representation, as well as level of programming knowledge (i.e., a minimum level of programming knowledge will be required).Teams (e.g. neuroradiologist + data scientist) are encouraged to apply. Applicants who are not selected for this year and encouraged to apply again next year.

All selected participants are required to register. The registration fee of $375 covers participation at both ASNR25 and ASFNR25 companion workshops.

The Submission period is now closed

Organizing Committee

(alphabetically based on last name)

​Course Directors

  • Spyridon Bakas, PhD, Indiana University
  • Evan Calabrese, MD, PhD, Duke University
  • Jeffrey Rudie, MD, PhD, Scripps Clinic and UCSD

​Associate Directors

  • Chandan Ganesh Bangalore Yogananda, PhD, UTSW
  • Shahriar Faghani, MD, Mayo Clinic and University of Pennsylvania
  • Fred Kwon, MD, PhD, NYU

​Speakers

  • Spyridon Bakas, PhD, Indiana University
  • Chandan Ganesh Bangalore Yogananda, PhD, UTSW
  • Evan Calabrese, MD, PhD, Duke University
  • Peter Chang, MD, UC Irvine​
  • Nathan Cross, MD, MS, CIIP, University of Washington
  • Shahriar Faghani, MD, Mayo Clinic and University of Pennsylvania
  • Fred Kwon, MD, PhD, NYU
  • Dominic LaBella, MD, Duke University
  • Ryan Lee, MD, MBA, Thomas Jefferson University​
  • Ji Eun Park, MD, PhD, Asan Medical Center
  • Jeffrey Rudie, MD, PhD, Scripps Clinic and UCSD
  • Additional speakers to be confirmed

Advisory

  • Peter Chang, MD, UC Irvine​
  • Rajan Jain, MD, NYU
  • Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD, Stanford

ASNR 2025 Program (Schedule Subject to Change)

AI Workshop: Towards Clinical Translation
Day 1 – May 17, 2025

  • Historic Overview and Ethics of AI in Neuroradiology
  • Getting Started: Choosing Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Designing a Neuroradiology AI Project (including Role of Neuroradiologist)
  • Participant Introductions to Large Group
  • Intuitive Understanding of Neural Networks
  • Hardware Considerations
  • Data: Implications & Bureaucratic Considerations
  • Open Tools & Datasets for Research 

Day 2 – May 18, 2025​

  • Neuroradiology Data Preparation
  • Setting up the Compute Environment
  • DL Classroom: Neuroradiology Segmentation
  • DL Classroom: Neuroradiology Classification
  • A didactic session on LLMs/LLVMs
  • DL Classroom: LLM’s in Neuroradiology
  • Evaluating AI vendors