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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng

@aprilkhademi.bsky.social
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Canada Research Chair in AI for Medical Imaging. Image Analysis in Medicine Lab @TorontoMet @UofTMedIm @VectorInst @UofT_TCAIREM @UnityHealthTO @iBESTResearch. www.torontomu.ca/akhademi

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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Times Higher Education (THE) Global AI Summit wrapped up yesterday and enjoyed taking part in the panel with esteemed colleagues: From Bench to Bedside: Revolutionising Healthcare using AI. www.timeshighered-events.com/global-ai-su...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Hi Bluesky community. Me and my team are participating in a cancer hike fundraiser to bring awareness and raise funds for cancer research. Would love to have your support. fundraisemyway.cancer.ca/participants...
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I'm supporting the Canadian Cancer Society!
In trusted partnership with donors and volunteers, we improve the lives of all those affected by cancer through world-class research, transformative advocacy and compassionate support.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Thank you for the shout out and support through the CCS grant programs! It’s been an honour to work on AI tools that can improve breast cancer patient outcomes.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Interesting work. Authors developed an AI model to detect bilateral asymmetry as a breast cancer (BC) risk factor to predict BC risk up to 5yrs in advance. If both breasts had equal risk, how this would work? Either way, great tech & can't wait to see more like this. www.rsna.org/news/2024/ma...
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Researchers Develop Deep Learning Model to Predict Breast Cancer
Radiology study about mammography-based deep learning model that successfully predicts 1-5-year breast cancer risk
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
p-Tau217 is a breakthrough blood test that can predict and may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt... Here's the rundown on it. Free, open-access.
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The Breakthrough Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease
The p-Tau217 Biomarker for Prediction and Prevention
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thank you to the Canadian Cancer Society for funding my lab and trainees!
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Canadian Cancer Society Research @ccsresearch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Congratulations, @aprilkhademi.bsky.social, on this great honor! 🎉👏 We’re very proud to support your #research into using machine learning to improve #cancer diagnoses. We can’t wait to see the positive impact it will have! #CancerResearch #AI
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A paper we worked on was awarded one of the five "Best of the USCAP - United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Journals" in Laboratory Investigation for 2024. www.laboratoryinvestigation.org/article/S002...
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Reliability and Variability of Ki-67 Digital Image Analysis Methods for Clinical Diagnostics in Breast Cancer
Ki-67 is a nuclear protein associated with proliferation, and a strong potential biomarker in breast cancer, but is not routinely measured in current clinical management owing to a lack of standardiza...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The secret of life? Just enjoy the ride
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is some golden marketing. Right on brand.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Harvard scientist claims 'God is real': Reveals mathematical formula that could prove it m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...
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Harvard scientist claims 'God is real': Reveals mathematical formula that could prove it
Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon has suggested that a mathematical formula could prove God's existence. By examining cosmic constants and the fine-tuning argument, the theory posits that the uni...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
😂 Turkey is the destination for hair transplants.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism
So much for free speech in America?
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
With a heavy heart, I've decided to suspend all academic travel to the USA for me and my lab. Given the escalation of tensions and uncertainties, it seems to be the wisest move. To our US colleagues, please be certain that we will continue to do what we can to support you. Science is global.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Interesting study looking at AI-based super resolution (SR) techniques for medical imaging. SR is low hanging fruit in the medical device space as it has a lower (regulatory) barrier to entry, and has a clear ROI (scanning more patients in less time). www.emjreviews.com/radiology/ne...
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AI-Powered MRI Improves Efficiency Without Compromising Accuracy: ECR 2025
Study presented at ECR 2025 has found that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based SuperResolution reconstruction method for lumbar spine MRI scans significantly reduces scan times. Read more!
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sticker given to me by a colleague. 😍
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers
Tech companies are revamping computing — from how tiny chips are built to the way they are arranged, cooled and powered — in the race to build artificial intelligence that recreates the human brain.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
US scientists are being told not to use mRNA references on grants. This is similar to removing free speech rights, but for scientists. Being determined by non-scientists. Does this mean US scientists can no longer *freely* determine what research they work on? kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It’s still Christmas somewhere in Ontario … Look at that moon 🌕
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In case any fellow parents were wondering what in the world the words your child uses are, here is the guide.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
On the day the pandemic was declared five years ago, maybe this is apt. Denial of airborne transmission of COVID broke the world. This is exactly why we need scientists being involved with decisions that impact humanity. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/11/h...
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How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world
The most grievous error of the pandemic response has become clear.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Patients liked their messages written by A.I.compared with those written by their clinicians, until they learned they came from A.I. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Science in the US is under attack. Given American influence in the world, it’s hard to see how this wouldn’t impact all of us, especially other scientific communities. As discussed - this act of censoring and getting rid of science is typical of authoritarianism.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
AI-Powered Medical Imaging. Enjoyed this podcast! We discuss how signal processing and AI are innovating medical imaging, improving diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. Find out what the future of medical imaging will look like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CRf...
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Our Digital Life Episode 1: AI Powered Medical Imaging
YouTube video by IEEE Signal Processing Society
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Canadians Call for Federal Action on Brain Health: Vote for Brain Health Campaign. Neurological disorders are a leading cause of disability and mortality. I’m voting for brain health. Will you join me? #Vote4BrainHealth Add your voice here: www.vote4brainhealth.ca
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Be the power that you are. What a bold and beautiful message. Happy international women’s day. Cheers to all the strong women in our lives. May we raise them, may we support them, may we be them.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Lists circulating of Canadian products (vs. US ones)...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Day 1: Remarkable 2025 @vectorinstitute.ai
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What Keeps Stressed-Out Faculty Members Going? Their Students. Can attest to that. Working with the next generation of engineers is one of the reasons I left a lucrative industry role. We love our job but it’s all the other stuff that is burning us out www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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What Keeps Stressed-Out Faculty Members Going? Their Students.
Professors like teaching. It’s all the other stuff that’s burning them out.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Interesting times over on X....
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science This is like watching a slow moving train wreck for science. Really sad and dark times. Good luck to all those students that are waiting to see if they will have funding.... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of graduate school and postdoctoral opportunities available across all disciplines in 🇨🇦. With decent grant funding and outstanding research facilities as well as recognition of EDI and gender issues. Americans, look past your backyard.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 2024 Year in Review Article on the trends in AI for Healthcare 2024. Imaging had the most significant growth. Suspect this will continue, including innovations around multimodal models and imaging. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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UofT-TCAIREM @uoft-tcairem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Next-gen SmartSpeed Precise MR #technology | Philips www.philips.com/a-w/about/ne... #MedTwitter #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #Healthcare #MedTech
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Philips accelerates precise imaging with unique AI technologies in MRI to improve patient outcomes
Philips integrates advanced AI algorithms into its MRI systems, featuring Dual AI engines in SmartSpeed Precise for faster scans and higher image quality.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We are getting closer to wider scale clinical implementation of AI for medical imaging.
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Early signs of deception, cheating & self-preservation in top-performing models in terms of reasoning are extremely worrisome. We don't know how to guarantee AI won't have undesired behavior to reach goals & this must be addressed before deploying powerful autonomous agents. time.com/7259395/ai-c...
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When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats
When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Inside the collapse at the NIH www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Assessing the functionality of over 4,000 genome variants for their role in cancer, with prominence of impact for those related to the immune system and chronic inflammation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Functional analysis of cancer-associated germline risk variants - Nature Genetics
Analysis of 4,041 single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) linked to 13 cancers performed in primary human cell types identifies 380 potentially regulatory SNVs and their putative target genes. Editing one S...
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14/02/2025
Global News keeps misreporting the cause of the university financial crisis. Int'l student caps only exacerbated the real problem: endlessly falling government funding and, in Ontario, a brutal tuition freeze. globalnews.ca/video/110188...
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Canadian universities, colleges face cash crunch because of student visa cap | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Canadian universities, colleges face cash crunch because of student visa cap Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How do GLP-1 drugs affect cognitive and mental health disorders? A comprehensive review www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Evidence based on the literature for various traits and disorders
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Storytelling may be more important than ever for biomedicine's future, given current challenges. Here's a master at that erictopol.substack.com/p/emily-silv... #Medsky
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Emily Silverman: Storytelling, Uncertainty, and Humanity in Medicine
Watch now |
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Prevalence of mixed pathologies in the aging brain It is quite common for Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia to be present with other pathologies, such as vascular disease. alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Prevalence of mixed pathologies in the aging brain - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
The spectrum of mixed brain pathologies expands beyond accompanying vascular pathology in brains with Alzheimer’s disease-related pathology. Co-occurrence of neurodegenerative non-Alzheimer’s disease-...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations - CanStroke Recovery Trials canadianstroke.ca/featured-new...
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Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations - CanStroke Recovery Trials
News Release on behalf of the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations Advisory Committee, in collaboration with the Canadian Stroke Consortium, Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation, and Can...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Collaboration between clinicians and vision–language models in radiology report generation - 56.1% of intensive care reports evaluated by AI preferred/equivalent to clinician reports - 77.7% for in/outpatient X-rays overall - 94% no pertinent abnormal findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Collaboration between clinicians and vision–language models in radiology report generation - Nature Medicine
By engaging a group of 27 certified radiologists in the United States and India, the accuracy and quality of radiology reports generated by a vision–language model is evaluated, exploring synergistic ...
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In the big data era, prioritize statistical significance in study design. Researchers must account both for changes that happen in individuals over time and for differences between individuals www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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In the big data era, prioritize statistical significance in study design
Analysis of neuroimaging studies shows that close attention to experimental design can increase the statistical robustness of research results.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Large AI for mammography trial found: - AI resulted in increased detection of invasive cancers - AI resulted in an increased detection of in situ cancers - False-positives not significantly higher using AI AI FOR THE WIN www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, ...
The findings suggest that AI contributes to the early detection of clinically relevant breast cancer and reduces screen-reading workload without increasing false positives.
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Dr. April Khademi, P.Eng @aprilkhademi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Time flies by like a dream✨⭐️💫
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