{"id":16,"date":"2021-07-21T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/banerjeelab\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:35:45","slug":"welcome-to-the-banerjee-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/banerjeelab\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the BanerjeeLab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-asu-maroon-color has-asu-gold-background-color has-text-color has-background\" id=\"h.p_-VVT-52OPYGj\">The lab is affiliated with Mayo Clinic, Arizona and Arizona State University. Our members are computer scientists and clinical professionals with passion for AI.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At&nbsp;<strong>BanerjeeLab<\/strong>, we are pioneering the fusion of&nbsp;<strong>unstructured medical data<\/strong>\u2014including radiology and pathology images, 3D anatomical models, and clinical notes\u2014to develop advanced AI models that support&nbsp;<strong>clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and precision medicine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ud83c\udfaf Our Focus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"983\" height=\"979\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/banerjeelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/07\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-469\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0040947780078215;width:579px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/banerjeelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/07\/Untitled.png 983w, https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/banerjeelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/07\/Untitled-500x498.png 500w, https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/banerjeelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/07\/Untitled-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are particularly interested in the&nbsp;<strong>longitudinal inference<\/strong>&nbsp;of patient data\u2014understanding disease progression over time\u2014and building pathways to deploy AI tools&nbsp;<strong>at the point-of-care<\/strong>. Our goal is to empower clinicians with real-time, data-driven insights for&nbsp;<strong>prevention, screening, and treatment<\/strong>&nbsp;of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udd2c Core Research Areas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AI Fairness in Healthcare<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Multimodal Data Fusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Clinical translation of AI models<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anomaly Detection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Large Language Models (LLMs)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vision-Language Models (VLMs)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stanford-medai.github.io\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/stanford-medai.github.io\">MedAI <\/a>Journal club every week &#8211; joint with Stanford  University, Emory University and NIH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Collaborations:&nbsp;<\/strong>We have several multi-institutional research projects in collaboration with multiple academic centers and industries in US (including Stanford, Emory, MIT, Duke, SUNY Buffalo, Moffitt Cancer Center, UCSF, Philips healthcare, Carl Zeiss, Genetech, Arterys Inc) and Europe (CNR, Universit\u00e9 Paris Descartes, HES-SO Valais) related to NLP and prediction. The application area of the developed methodologies spans from breast cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer up to cardiovascular diseases, sepsis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Competencies:<\/strong> Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Medical image analysis, deep learning, machine learning, Predictive modeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-930feb06 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Open graduate student support and postdoc position in both Computer vision and NLP: please send CV and a letter of research interest to imon.banerjee[at]asu.edu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-asu-maroon-color has-asu-gold-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So excited received the NoA for our U01 award from @NCIDataSci. We will build and release a flexible NLP toolset for curate the clinical and patient-centered outcomes of breast cancer patients. Joint project <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoRadiologyAZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayoRadiologyAZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rubinqilab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rubinqilab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hiti_lab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hiti_lab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmoryUniversity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EmoryUniversity<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Imon Banerjee (@ImonBanerjee6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImonBanerjee6\/status\/1554886461312290816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-930feb06 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our new publication on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/graph?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#graph<\/a> convolutional neural network for HAI prediction with cost effectiveness analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMIAinformatics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AMIAinformatics<\/a> @bhavik_md <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoClinicMI2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayoClinicMI2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoRadiologyAZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayoRadiologyAZ<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P54wL0l3mz\">https:\/\/t.co\/P54wL0l3mz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Imon Banerjee (@ImonBanerjee6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImonBanerjee6\/status\/1671287799709040640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Starting a new project <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AI<\/a> enabled <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/multisensor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#multisensor<\/a> platform  to monitor AKI patients &#8212; funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NIH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NIH<\/a> R01<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoClinicMI2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayoClinicMI2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoRadiologyAZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayoRadiologyAZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ASU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZSXs4YERsI\">pic.twitter.com\/ZSXs4YERsI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Imon Banerjee (@ImonBanerjee6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImonBanerjee6\/status\/1684997321237614592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/judywawira?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@judywawira<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImonBanerjee6?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImonBanerjee6<\/a> have shown that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/race?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#race<\/a> can be extracted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AI<\/a> from radiology images when humans cannot <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eltOWNtRHL\">https:\/\/t.co\/eltOWNtRHL<\/a><br>Question is what this means for decision making <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RADAIchat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RADAIchat<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Carolyn Meltzer, MD (@DeanMeltzer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeanMeltzer\/status\/1445908140093026305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Role of Large Language Models in AI-driven medical research | Dr. Imon Banerjee\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y8tUTfWgbZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Cannot Hide Behind Bias: Dr Imon Banerjee | #45\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rnUuwmCwuDQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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