Program


Program [ June 12 2025 | Nashville Time | US Central Time ]
Session Start Time Talk Title Speaker(s)
Opening Remarks 8:30AM Welcome to CVMI 2025 & Logistics for Hybrid Format Mei Chen, Ph.D., Microsoft
Invited Talk 8:40AM 2025: The Digital Pathology Odyssey Continues Inti Zlobec, Professor, University of Bern
Invited Talk 9:20AM The AI Revolution in Multimodal Radiology Informatics Ron Summers, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Health
Break 10:00AM Coffee Break
Invited Talk 10:30AM Advances in Multi/Hyper-plex Bio-image Analysis Badri Roysam, Professor, University of Houston
Accepted Paper 11:00AM SAM4EM: Efficient memory-based two stage prompt-free segment anything model adapter for complex 3D neuroscience electron microscopy stacks Uzair Shah (HBKU); Marco Agus (HBKU)*; Daniya Boges (KAUST); Vanessa Chappini (University of Turin); Mahmood Alzubaidi (HBKU); Jens Schneider (HBKU); Markus Hadwiger (KAUST); Pierre Magistretti (KAUST); Mowafa Househ (HBKU); Corrado Cali (University of Turin)
Accepted Paper 11:10AM IAUNet: Instance-Aware U-Net Yaroslav Prytula (University of Tartu)*; Illia Tsiporenko (University of Tartu); Ali Zeynalli (University of Tartu); Dmytro Fishman (University of Tartu)
Accepted Paper 11:20AM Fast Sphericity and Roundness approximation in 2D and 3D using Local Thickness Pawel Pieta (Technical University of Denmark)*; Peter Winkel Rasmussen (Technical University of Denmark); Anders Bjorholm Dahl (Technical University of Denmark); Anders Nymark Christensen (Technical University of Denmark)
Invited Panel 11:30AM Decoding Cells and Tissues: The Role of AI in Biomedical Imaging Ron Summers, Badri Roysam, Hoifung Poon, Greg Johnson, Drew Linsley, Dimitri Metaxas, Steve Finkbeiner, Oren Kraus
Break 12:10PM Lunch Break
Invited Talk 13:10 Multimodal Generative AI for Precision Health Hoifung Poon, Ph.D., General Manager, Microsoft
Accepted Paper 13:50 Prompt-Tuning SAM: From Generalist to Specialist with only 2048 Parameters and 16 Training Images Tristan Piater (Carl Zeiss AG); Björn Barz (Carl Zeiss AG)*; Alexander Freytag (Carl Zeiss AG)
Accepted Paper 14:00 Generalizable Unsupervised Microscopy Video Denoising via Weighted SpatioTemporal Sampling Mary Aiyetigbo (Clemson); Wanqi Yuan (Clemson); Feng Luo (Clemson University); Xin Li (University at Albany); Tong Ye (Clemson University); Nianyi Li (Clemson University)*
Accepted Paper 14:10 Beyond Neurofibrillary Tangles: Explainable AI for Microscopic Tauopathy Classification in Immunofluorescence Imaging Jesus Dassaef López-Barrios (Tecnologico de Monterrey)*; Miguel Angel Ontiveros-Torres (Tecnologico de Monterrey); Jose Antonio Cantoral-Ceballos (Tecnologico de Monterrey)
Accepted Paper 14:20 CytoFM: The first cytology foundation model Vedrana Ivezic (UCLA)*; Ashwath Radhachandran (UCLA); Ekaterina Redekop (UCLA); Shreeram Athreya (UCLA); Dongwoo Lee (UCLA); Vivek Sant (UT Southwestern); Corey Arnold (UCLA); William Speier (UCLA)
Accepted Paper 14:30 A Novel 3D Decoder with Weighted and Learnable Triple Attention for 3D Microscopy Image Segmentation Siyavash Shabani (university of nevada, Reno)*; Sahar A Mohammed (University of Nevada, reno ); Bahram Parvin (University of Nevada, Reno)
Poster Session 14:40 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Invited Talk 15:20 Generative Models of Cellular Organization Greg Johnson, Ph.D, Research scientist, EvolutionaryScale
Accepted Paper 16:00 Zero-Shot Denoising for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy with Intensity-Guided Learning Hao Chen (University of Notre Dame)*; Julian Najera (University of Notre Dame); Dagmawit Geresu (University of Notre Dame); Meenal Datta (University of Notre Dame); Cody Smith (University of Notre Dame); Scott Howard (University of Notre Dame)
Accepted Paper 16:10 Low-Frame-Rate Cell Tracking: Unmet Needs and Future Directions Mina Gachloo (Clemson University)*; Akhila Nangineedi (Clemson University); Mahsa Partovi (Clemson University); Fardifa Fathmiul Alam (Clemson University); Tzu Yu (Clemson University); James Schvaneveldt (Clemson University); Xiaoming Lu (Clemson University); Tirthankar Biswas (Clemson University); Marc Russel Birtwistle (Clemson University); Federico Iuricich (Clemson University)
Invited Talk 16:20 Cellular resilience: A new frontier for artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery Drew Linsley, Assistant Professor, Brown University
Work-in-Progress 17:00 Relative organelle and cell movement estimation in 2D and 3D microscopy images Constanza Vasquez, Josefa Macuada, Verónica Eisner, Matías Berasain, Steffen Härtel, Miguel Concha, Mauricio Cerda
Work-in-Progress 17:10 Predicting Ultrastructure from Grayscale Electron Microscopy Using a GAN Trained with Hyperspectral Data Changmin Tian, B.H. Peter Duinkerken, Jacob P. Hoogenboom, Ben N.G. Giepmans, George Azzopardi & Ahmad M.J. Alsahaf
Closing Remarks 17:20 Closing Remarks & Look Forward to CVMI 2026 Mei Chen, Ph.D., Microsoft