French–Israeli Team Awarded Grant for Breakthrough AI in MRI
A new era for brain imaging begins
The Technion-Rambam Initiative in Medical AI (TERA) and the French Health Data Hub (HDH) have announced the recipients of a joint binational grant for groundbreaking research in medical artificial intelligence, selecting an innovative project in the field of MRI technology.
The recipients are research teams led by Assistant Professor Efrat Shimron from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and by Dr. Philippe Ciuciu, Research Director and CEA Fellow, Head of the Inria-CEA MIND team at NeuroSpin and Inria Saclay.
The winning project, named K-SPARK, aims to develop a revolutionary AI-driven technology for rapid MRI scans, specifically designed for high-precision brain morphometry. Another key aspect of this project is to establish an open, multi-center database of in-vivo human MRI scans collected at 3 and 7 Tesla. This research addresses a critical unmet need and aims to make MRI more accessible and clinically available worldwide.
