Center for Intelligent Imaging

University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, United States

CenterFounded 2020133 peopleFederated LearningProstate Cancer Detection

Lab profile

About ci2

The Center for Intelligent Imaging (ci2) focuses on medical imaging by leveraging the power of data, including access to massive image databases, extensive annotated image archives, and domain knowledge at all organ and disease levels. The Center leads in the discovery, innovation and translation of intelligent imaging through clinical radiology, imaging science, engineering, machine learning, and data science.

Federated LearningProstate Cancer DetectionChronic Lower Back Pain ImagingBrain MRI DiagnosesDegenerative Joint DiseaseLiver Transplant VolumetricsAlzheimer's Disease DetectionPain Progression Prediction

01 · Research focus

Research areas and highlights

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

  • Federated Learning for RadiologyDeveloping a model- and data-agnostic federated learning toolkit to train deep learning algorithms on large, diverse datasets for robust performance across institutions worldwide.
  • Improving Detection of Prostate Cancer through Deep Learning
  • Applying AI to the Imaging of Chronic Lower Back Pain
  • Developing an AI System for Brain MRI Diagnoses
  • Machine and Deep Learning Applied to MR Images to Characterize Degenerative Joint Disease
  • Automatically Derived Volumetrics for Liver Transplants
  • Deep Learning Tools for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Integrating Genomics and Imaging to Predict Pain Progression

02 · People

Leadership and researchers

People listed on the lab’s team pages, by role.

Jason CraneDirector
Christopher HessDirector
Janine LupoCo-Director
Sharmila MajumdarCo-DirectorLinkedIn ↗
Andreas RauscheckerCo-Director
Jae Ho SohnCo-Director
Reza Abbasi-AslFaculty
Theodore AbrahamFaculty
Rima ArnaoutFacultyLinkedIn ↗
Amrita BasuFaculty
Spencer BehrFaculty
Valentina BorghesaniFaculty
Cynthia ChinFaculty
Maggie ChungFaculty
Daniel CookeFaculty
Martina DescovichFaculty
Zhaoyang FanProfessor
Stathis GennatasFacultyLinkedIn ↗

03 · Research intelligence

Research Intelligence evidence

Publications, grants and clinical trials linked to the lab’s researchers in Health AI Central’s research data.

04 · Updates

Updates and lab news

News and events from the lab’s own site.

  • Deep Generative and Hardware Accelerated MRIEventOct 12, 2026 · intelligentimaging.ucsf.edu
  • Real-World Federated Learning in MedicineEventSep 14, 2026
  • Visiting Graduate Researchers Present Work on Detecting White Matter Abnormalities and Decoding Segmentation Uncertainty in Pediatric Brain TumorsNewsSep 3, 2026
  • Visiting Graduate Speaker SeriesEventAug 17, 2026
  • A New Framework for Turning Musculoskeletal MRI Into Actionable BiomarkersNewsJul 16, 2026 · intelligentimaging.ucsf.edu
  • What Large-Scale Training Data Reveals About the Future of Radiology AINewsJun 26, 2026
  • UCSF Residents Present Research on Multilingual Patient-Friendly Radiology Reports and a First-of-Its-Kind CNS Lymphoma DatasetNewsApr 30, 2026
  • New Deep Learning Approach Predicts Need for Postnatal Intervention in Fetal VentriculomegalyNewsApr 13, 2026

05 · Official presence

Lab sources and channels

The lab’s own pages and accounts.

06 · Related

Related labs and centers

Labs at the same institution and labs working on similar topics.