The Biomedical Imaging and Data Science Lab (BIDSLab) directed by Prof. Joyita Dutta, is part of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. BIDSLab is an engineering and data science lab and maintains deep ties with hospital-based researchers and clinicians in the Boston area and beyond. Our mission is to develop signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to tackle a wide spectrum of biomedical problems. Our research focuses on medical image enhancement and analysis, brain network modeling, and electrophysiological signal processing. We apply these methods to a variety of clinical domains, including Alzheimer’s disease, sleep characterization, and cancer theranostics, with the overarching goal of translating computational innovations into meaningful improvements in healthcare.
Oct 2025. We are thankful to UMass IALS for awarding us a Midi-Grant. The grant will support a strategic partnership with UMass Chan Medical School on AI-based image enhancement and dosimetry for radiopharmaceutical therapy for prostate cancer.
Sep 2025. We are excited to share our new paper in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering: “AI-driven sleep staging using instantaneous heart rate and accelerometry: Insights from an Apple Watch study” with a dedicated Apple Watch app for sleep data collection, an AI model for automated sleep staging, and a de-identified dataset for public use.
Sep 2025. Our paper titled "Atrophy patterns of deep gray matter nuclei in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia" in collaboration with the Saranathan Lab at UMass Chan Medical School was accepted for publication in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease journal.
Jul 2025. Congratulations to Ziwei for getting accepted for an oral presentation at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference and Ziyuan for a poster!
Jun 2025. Another huge congrats to Vibha for winning 1st Place in the SNMMI PIDSC Best Poster Award competition!!
Apr 2025. Congrats, Vibha, for receiving the Alavi-Mandell Award from the Journal of Nuclear Medicine for the paper “Artificial intelligence for PET and SPECT image enhancement”!
Apr 2025. We are excited to announce that BIDSLab will be presenting 4 abstracts (1 oral and 3 posters) at the SNMMI 2025 Annual Meeting. Congrats to presenters Fan, Vibha, Ziyuan, and Bowen!
Oct 2024. Our paper titled "Elevated locus coeruleus metabolism provides resilience against cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease" in in collaboration with the Jacobs Lab at MGH was accepted for publication in the Alzheimer's & Dementia journal.