Nicha Dvornek, PhD
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Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
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Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
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Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Yale School of Medicine (2017)
- Postdoctoral Associate
- Yale School of Medicine (2015)
- PhD
- Yale University (2012)
- MPhil
- Yale University (2009)
- MS
- Yale University (2007)
- BS
- Johns Hopkins University (2006)
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Medical Research Interests
Autistic Disorder; Biomedical Engineering; Brain; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Neural Networks, Computer
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0000-0002-1648-6055
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53Publications
2,069Citations
James Duncan, PhD
Lawrence Staib, PhD
Chi Liu, PhD
Bin Zhou, MS
John Onofrey, PhD
Edward J Miller, MD, PhD
Brain
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Neural Networks, Computer
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Featured Publications
Unsupervised inter-frame motion correction for whole-body dynamic PET using convolutional long short-term memory in a convolutional neural network
Guo X, Zhou B, Pigg D, Spottiswoode B, Casey ME, Liu C, Dvornek NC. Unsupervised inter-frame motion correction for whole-body dynamic PET using convolutional long short-term memory in a convolutional neural network. Medical Image Analysis 2022, 80: 102524. PMID: 35797734, PMCID: PMC10923189, DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102524.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2026
Acquisition Time-Informed Breast Tumor Segmentation from Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI
Wang R, Du Y, Lewin J, Constable R, Dvornek N. Acquisition Time-Informed Breast Tumor Segmentation from Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI. 2026, 00: 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/isbi61048.2026.11515579.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHyperbolic Model Aggregation for Federated Learning in fMRI
Wang J, Dvornek N, Duan P, Marshall A, Staib L, Duncan J. Hyperbolic Model Aggregation for Federated Learning in fMRI. 2011 IEEE International Symposium On Biomedical Imaging: From Nano To Macro 2026, 00: 1-5. PMID: 42183014, PMCID: PMC13193235, DOI: 10.1109/isbi61048.2026.11515381.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSTNAGNN: Data-driven Spatio-temporal Brain Connectivity beyond FC.
Wang J, Dvornek N, Duan P, Staib L, Ventola P, Duncan J. STNAGNN: Data-driven Spatio-temporal Brain Connectivity beyond FC. Proceedings Of Machine Learning Research 2026, 301: 1688-1705. PMID: 42222597, PMCID: PMC13218448.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitations
2025
Geometry-Guided Local Alignment for Multi-view Visual Language Pre-training in Mammography
Du Y, Chen L, Dvornek N. Geometry-Guided Local Alignment for Multi-view Visual Language Pre-training in Mammography. Lecture Notes In Computer Science 2025, 15965: 299-310. PMID: 42063811, PMCID: PMC13127458, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-04978-0_29.ChaptersCitationsMulti-view and Multi-scale Alignment for Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training in Mammography
Du Y, Onofrey J, Dvornek N. Multi-view and Multi-scale Alignment for Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training in Mammography. Lecture Notes In Computer Science 2025, 15830: 247-262. PMID: 40995617, PMCID: PMC12456755, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96625-5_17.ChaptersCitationsCXR-LT 2024: A MICCAI challenge on long-tailed, multi-label, and zero-shot disease classification from chest X-ray
Lin M, Holste G, Wang S, Zhou Y, Wei Y, Banerjee I, Chen P, Dai T, Du Y, Dvornek N, Ge Y, Guo Z, Hanaoka S, Kim D, Messina P, Lu Y, Parra D, Son D, Soto Á, Urooj A, Vidal R, Yamagishi Y, Yan P, Yang Z, Zhang R, Zhou Y, Celi L, Summers R, Lu Z, Chen H, Flanders A, Shih G, Wang Z, Peng Y. CXR-LT 2024: A MICCAI challenge on long-tailed, multi-label, and zero-shot disease classification from chest X-ray. Medical Image Analysis 2025, 106: 103739. PMID: 40795541, PMCID: PMC12396843, DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2025.103739.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsImproved Vessel Segmentation with Symmetric Rotation-Equivariant U-Net
Zhang J, Du Y, Dvornek N, Onofrey J. Improved Vessel Segmentation with Symmetric Rotation-Equivariant U-Net. 2025, 00: 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/isbi60581.2025.10981208.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSRE-CONV: Symmetric Rotation Equivariant Convolution for Biomedical Image Classification
Du Y, Zhang J, Zeevi T, Dvornek N, Onofrey J. SRE-CONV: Symmetric Rotation Equivariant Convolution for Biomedical Image Classification. 2025, 00: 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/isbi60581.2025.10981270.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsCausal Modeling of FMRI Time-Series for Interpretable Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification
Duan P, Dvornek N, Wang J, Staib L, Duncan J. Causal Modeling of FMRI Time-Series for Interpretable Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification. 2011 IEEE International Symposium On Biomedical Imaging: From Nano To Macro 2025, 00: 1-5. PMID: 41728049, PMCID: PMC12922508, DOI: 10.1109/isbi60581.2025.10980933.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitations
Clinical Trials
Current Trials
ACE Multisite Study of Adolescent & Adult Transitions
IRB ID2000024998RoleSub InvestigatorPrimary Completion Date04/30/2024Recruiting ParticipantsGenderBothAge12 years - 35 yearsCBT for Anxiety in Children With Autism
IRB ID1211011144RoleSub InvestigatorPrimary Completion Date06/30/2020Recruiting ParticipantsGenderBothAge8 years - 14 years
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honor Best Paper Award
10/13/2019International Award10th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2019)DetailsChinahonor Best Challenger Award
10/13/2019International AwardConnectomics in Neuroimaging - Transfer Learning ChallengeDetailsChinahonor James Hudson Brown – Alexander Brown Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowship
07/01/2014Yale School of Medicine AwardYale School of MedicineDetailsUnited States
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- April 08, 2025
Understanding the Transition From Early to Chronic Psychosis
- September 13, 2022
NIH Autism Center of Excellence Program Includes Yale Researchers
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