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Thanks to the organizers of SASHIMI 2026 at MICCAI 2026 for the Outstanding Reviewer Award! The submissions I reviewed were very thought provoking and enjoyable reads!

Outstanding Reviewer Award at SASHIMI 2026

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 08/09/2026

I had a great time working in teams on open source neuroscience software at #BrainHack Vanderbilt!

Presenting a tractography visualization software at BrainHack Vandy

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 14/08/2026

Lianrui is introducing us to distributed computing using NSF NAIRR resources at the THRIVE Workshop! Here’s results compiled across all of the participants!

Results of MRI registration compiled from all participants

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 10/08/2026

Super excited to begin VALIANT’s AI Summer School!

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 11/04/2026

Loved hearing about all the cool things going on in our department at ECE day!

A photo of me standing next to my poster on phenotyping traumatic brain injury imaging

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 02/03/2026

The VISE 5k was a success! Though I was the only one who showed up in costume for the competition… #running

My labmate Adam and I at the VISE 5k. I am in a hot dog costume

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 19/02/2026

And that’s a wrap on a great week at #SPIEMedicalImaging! Thankful for meeting many wonderful researchers, sharing our work, and visiting Vancouver!

A group photo of many Vanderbilt attendees in front of a waterfall marked with SPIE Medical Imaging

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 17/02/2026

There were great talks all around at the 3-Minute Poster Competition at #SPIEMedicalImaging! Super excited to share our work on crossing white matter fibers and win 3rd place!

Me posing with a comically large check for 3rd place at the JMI 3-Minute Poster Competition

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 26/12/2025

Merry Christmas from Dolly in her new sweater! #knitting

A picture of Dolly the mini goldendoodle wearing a red knit Christmas sweater with a large collar.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 12/12/2025

I enjoyed presenting our work on phenotype discovery from large-scale traumatic brain injury MRI at the 2025 VISE Symposium this week here at Vanderbilt!

A picture of me and a labmate standing in front of a poster titled 'Phenotype discovery of traumatic brain injury segmentations from heterogeneous multi-site data'.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 05/12/2025

I think one of the funniest things I’ve done as a grad student is use adversarial attacks to fool an ImageNet classification model into thinking my dog Dolly is a burrito.

An image showing very similar pictures of a mini goldendoodle titled ResNet-18 Carlini-Wagner Example. The before image is labeled miniature poodle and the after image is labeled burrito.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 12/06/2025

Dr. Jing Zhang is using AI to reconstruct fragmented archaeological materials at the 1st International Workshop on Spatial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage at #CVPR2025. Super cool work on such a difficult problem! #PhD #ComputerVision @cvprconference.bsky.social

A slide stating “First question: Can GARF generalize to unseen object shapes” showing colored fragments combining together.

A slide stating “The real-world data is usually found with missing or extraneous fragments” along with an example of each case.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 12/06/2025

Starting off the morning at #CVPR2025 with “the coolest project going on with @vandyvaliant.bsky.social” - imaging mummies to learn about health and aging from our past with Dr. Van Schaik! #PhD #MedicalImaging @cvprconference.bsky.social @elyssamcmaster.bsky.social

A slide states “What can skeletal remains from the past teach us about today? And tell us about health in the future?”

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 11/06/2025

Super excited to have #CVPR2025 happening right here in Nashville! Already tons of great workshops and posters today. #PhD #ComputerVision #MedicalImaging @cvprconference.bsky.social

A large banner reads “Welcome to CVPR Nashville”

A crowd of people in the atrium of Music City Center

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 07/05/2025

Celebrating a year of growth at @vandyvaliant.bsky.social with TensorFlow-er Power Hour! #PhD #MedicalImaging #AI

Picture of VALIANT Attempt members painting pots for succulents

Two painted pots, one with abstract designs holding a pencil cactus, another with a smiley face holding a spiky cactus.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 27/03/2025

Lots of fun at the grand opening of @vandyvaliant.bsky.social! Excited to be in an environment supporting translational #AI research across campus. #PhD #Science #MedicalImaging

Comically large scissors for the ribbon cutting ceremony

A balloon arch with AI-generated cut outs of a cat Val and a dog Ian.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 17/03/2025

I’m thankful for the opportunity I had to present on work from @masi-lab.bsky.social on bias field correction at the #DIPY Workshop! Glad to support this useful #OpenSource toolkit for diffusion MRI.

Title slide that states “DeepN4: Learning ITKN4 Bias Field Correction for T1-weighted Images”

DIPY Online Workshop 2025 poster, highlighting 6 keynote speakers and a QR code for registration

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 18/02/2025

Thankful to have been named a finalist for the Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award at #SPIEMedicalImaging! Come check out our 3-minute poster talk on Wednesday night to learn about vasculature smoothing! @spie.org @masi-lab.bsky.social @vandyvaliant.bsky.social

I am standing with a certificate next to a large sign saying “SPIE Medical Imaging”

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 17/02/2025

Come check out our work on creating a diffusion smoothing atlas at 2 PM in Town and Country A at #SPIEMedicalImaging! @spie.org

A slide says “Anatomic smoothing preserves anatomical structure in signals” and shows isotopic Gaussian smoothing compared to diffusion smoothing.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 14/02/2025

We had a “VALIANT Attempt” at teaching crochet! Loved sharing an art form with other AI trainees that can’t be machined (yet)! #AI #PhD #crochet

A group of students learning crochet. A slide reads “Cookies and Crochet for VAL-entine’s Day”

I am leading the group in learning crochet using an overhead camera.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 26/01/2025

Having fun working on diffusion MRI visualizations at #BrainHackVandy! @MASI_Lab @VandyValiant

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 10/01/2025

We have a new paper out in #MagneticResonanceImaging on correcting biases in quantitative T1 mapping methods for MRI using a patch-based deep learning model! @VandyValiant #MRI #MedicalImaging #DeepLearning #AI

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 14/11/2024

Check out our new paper in #SPIE_JMI on our method for creating eye atlases for @_hubmap from low-resolution MRI using super-resolution and deep learning-based image registration! doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.11.6.064004 @SPIEtweets @MASI_Lab @VandyValiant #MRI #medicalimaging

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 16/10/2024

An image processing riddle for those of you interested — I bought this shirt at @SPIEtweets Medical Imaging 2023 and was told there’s a secret message if we run it through MATLAB. We can’t figure it out! Any thoughts? 1/2

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 14/07/2024

I got way too excited to see today that someone cited me for the first time!

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 02/04/2024

It was great presenting on quantitative T1 mapping and hearing all of the cool things going on at @EceVanderbilt! #eceday24

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 28/06/2023

Diabetic retinopathy detection and grading algorithms are sensitive to image resolution. My undergraduate honors thesis explores image transformations that increase useful high-resolution information in an image. Read more at ecommons.udayton.edu/uhp_theses/423 to see what I learned!

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 08/05/2023

I am proud to announce I have graduated from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering! In addition to graduating summa cum laude, I also received the Thomas R. Armstrong Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering Achievement! #flyer23grad

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 04/05/2023

I’m thankful that I’ve been able to continue making music as an undergrad through the orchestra. My twin brother Nick and I were both recipients of the Senior Award for Outstanding Collaborative Pianist this year!

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 19/04/2023

I’m thankful for the opportunity to present my honors thesis in a Ted-style talk as one of the first ever signature speakers for the @univofdayton Stander Symposium! I was excited to share work on detecting diabetic retinopathy, a disease that affects my dad and so many others.

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 26/03/2023

I’m thrilled to announce I have accepted a PhD offer at @VanderbiltU with the @MASI_Lab! I’m excited to move to Nashville and continue contributing to the field of medical imaging! #PhD #medicalimaging

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 22/02/2023

If you’re at #SPIEMedicalImaging, come hear how I used a supercomputer to compare MIL algorithms for cancer classification from whole-slide images at Wednesday evening’s poster session!

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 02/12/2022

Yesterday through #IEEE at UD I helped organize a soldering workshop to create ornaments for kids to decorate at #ChristmasOnCampus 🎄⚡️

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 14/08/2022

Excited to share that my poster was selected as the best poster from @ORNLComputing at the @ORNL summer intern symposium! I learned so much about high performance computing, machine learning, and how we can power novel medical imaging technologies! #ORNLIntern #HPC #ML

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 11/08/2022

Presenting my #ORNLIntern research virtually wasn’t what I had in mind for the end of the summer, but @gather_town made it… kind of fun? #BigScience

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 14/07/2022

3D printed cars, a container designed to transport radioactive material, and facial recognition cameras - some of the things I got to see for @NssdOrnl National Security Science Week! #BigScience #ORNLIntern

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Adam Saunders @adamsaunders.net · 14/07/2022

Using @OLCFGOV high performance computing resources, I got to simulate two galaxies colliding today! Every day is exciting as an #ORNLIntern! #HPC #BigScience

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