AI MIND Lab (Artificial Intelligence for Medical Innovation and Novel Discoveries)

University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL, United States

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Lab profile

About AI MIND Lab

The AI MIND Lab advances artificial intelligence for healthcare through research at the intersection of computer science, medical imaging, and clinical medicine. The lab focuses on multimodal foundation models, vision-language models, agentic AI, and longitudinal learning, with emphasis on developing reliable, interpretable, and clinically grounded methods. Research addresses challenges in kidney disease, breast cancer screening, cardiovascular imaging, and surgical video understanding.

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01 · Research focus

Research areas and highlights

Topics and recent work as stated on the lab’s own site.

  • Kidney-VLM: Multimodal AI for Kidney DiseaseDeveloping kidney-specific vision-language models that integrate CT imaging, clinical reports, and quantitative imaging features for renal mass characterization and kidney stone analysis.
  • Longitudinal Vision-Language Models for Breast ImagingDeveloping AI methods for longitudinal mammography analysis, with a focus on lesion localization and correspondence across screening examinations.
  • Multimodal Foundation Models for Pan-Cancer ReasoningDeveloping multimodal AI frameworks that integrate radiology, digital pathology, genomics, and clinical information for patient-level cancer understanding.
  • Agentic Vision-Language Models for Cardiac MRIDeveloping tool-augmented vision-language models for quantitative cardiac MRI analysis combining specialized image analysis tools with multimodal reasoning.
  • Long-Form Video Understanding and Surgical AIDeveloping vision-language models with persistent memory and temporal reasoning capabilities for understanding long videos, with future applications in surgical video understanding and instrument tracking.
  • Multimodal AI for Bone Metastasis Detection
  • Longitudinal 3D AI for Breast Cancer Response
  • Privacy-First Federated AI for Autism

02 · People

Leadership and researchers

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Pegah KhosraviDirector · Associate Professor at University of Central Florida (UCF)LinkedIn ↗
Vincent NguyenMSc Research Assistant

03 · Research intelligence

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04 · Updates

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05 · Official presence

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06 · Related

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