Event Speaker

Mehrdad Salimitari, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Mehrdad Salimitari is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Trauma Radiology Artificial Intelligence Lab (TRAIL) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he develops AI models for hemorrhage detection in CT images, contributing to automated trauma diagnosis. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Denver, working on wildfire prediction using AI and satellite imagery. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, focusing on AI-driven frameworks for IoT networks. His expertise spans machine learning, medical imaging, and deep learning. He has authored academic papers and contributed to grant proposals.

Sessions

Breakthroughs in Disease Detection: From Imaging Biomarkers to Automated Diagnostics Scientific Research Abstracts

Presented by Mehrdad Salimitari, PhD, Eduardo Farina, MD, Mohamed K. Ibrahim, MD, Nazanin Maleki, MD, Mohammadreza Chavoshi, MD, Bardia Nadim, MD, Theo Dapamede, MS, MD, PhD, Xue Li May 21, 2025 | 1:45 PMRoom A105

A Combined Deployable End-to-end Automated AI Detection and Quantitative Visualization Pipeline for Hemothorax on Admission Trauma CT Mehrdad Salimitari, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland School of Medicine Ankush Jindal, MD, MS; Uttam Bodanapally, MD; Lei Zhang, PhD; Wayne LaBelle; Guang Li, PhD; Bhavya Reddy; Ozerk Turan; Gabrielle Dickerson; Abigail Corkum; Melike Harfouche, MD; David…